Atlantis on Mavericks with Homebrew

Author

Desjardins, Christopher (Liberal Arts College Vermont)

This way also works on Yosemite and with GCC 5.1.

An interesting discussion of Homebrew vs Macports or Fink can be found here.

An alternative way to install Atlantis on Mavericks involves Homebrew. Here is how to do it. This was updated as the Homebrew instructions changed and because you can install proj directly from Homebrew.

1. Install Xcode

make sure CLI tools are installed (they should be by default).

2. Install Homebrew

ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”

3. Install gcc (I installed gcc49)

brew tap homebrew/versions
brew install gcc49

4. Install autoconf

brew install autoconf

5. Install netcdf

brew tap homebrew/science
brew install netcdf

6. Install proj

brew install proj

7. Install libxml2

brew install libxml2

8. Install automake

brew install automake

9. Pull in Atlantis via svn

svn co https://svnserv.csiro.au/svn/ext/atlantis/Atlantis/branches/bec_dev

10. Setup configure script

Save the following as configure_macbrew

./configure CC=‘gcc-4.9’ CFLAGS=‘-I/usr/local/Cellar/netcdf/4.3.2_1/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/proj/4.8.0/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/include/libxml2’ CXXFLAGS=‘-I/usr/local/Cellar/netcdf/4.3.2_1/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/proj/4.8.0/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/include/libxml2’ CPPFLAGS=‘-I/usr/local/Cellar/netcdf/4.3.2_1/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/proj/4.8.0/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/include/libxml2’ LDFLAGS=‘-L/usr/local/Cellar/netcdf/4.3.2_1/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/proj/4.8.0/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/lib -lcurl’

Note, you might need to update the version numbers in the path.

11. Compile, make, and test

aclocal
autoheader
autoconf
automake -a
chmod +x configure_macbrew
./configure_macbrew
make
sudo make install
atlantisNew -v