Mac Build Instructions

These instructions were written based on a system running Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard).

libpinproc Prerequisites

libpinproc uses libftdi1 to talk to the P-ROC hardware. libftdi1 depends on libusb-1.0.x

libpinproc's example program (pinproctest) depends on the yaml-cpp project. In order to build yaml-cpp, cmake is required.

Note: If you see an error such as "configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH" You may also need to install the command line compilers from Xcode by following the instructions here.

libusb

Building libusb version 1.0.9:

   ./configure
   make CFLAGS="-arch i386"
   sudo make install

libftdi1

Building libftdi1 version 1.1.0:

   mkdir bin
   cd bin
   cmake -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=i386 ..
   make
   sudo make install

yaml-cpp

yaml-cpp is used by libpinproctest.

Download and extract yaml-cpp into a directory of your choice. Latest version tested: 0.2.6
If you haven't already installed cmake, install it now.
From the command line, 'cd' into your yaml-cpp directory and run the following commands:

   mkdir bin
   cd bin
   cmake ..
   make
   sudo make install

libpinproc

Download (and extract) libpinproc into a directory of your choice. Note - make sure you select the desired branch to download (either master or dev).
- Download either by clicking 'Download Sources' or by installing a git client and checking out the repository.
From the command line, 'cd' into the libpinproc directory and run the following commands:

Supported:

   mkdir bin
   cd bin
   cmake -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=i386 -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON ..
   make
   sudo make install

pypinproc

Build pypinproc - libpinproc Python extension
- Download (and extract) pypinproc into a directory of your choice. Note - make sure you select the desired branch to download (either master or dev).
  - Download either by clicking 'Download Sources' or by installing a git client and checking out the repository.

By default distutils likes to build i386 and PPC binaries, presumably for creating a binary distribution. In our case we only want the current architecture, the one we used to build the previous libraries. The pypinproc setup.py script checks for the ARCH environment variable; if it is set it will build pypinproc using that architecture.

   ARCH=i386 python setup.py build
   sudo python setup.py install

PyYAML

Install PyYAML:

Mac build instructions

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