Bulding Inviwo on Mac OSX

To build from source, use homebrew to install packages.

Required packages XCode Download CMake >= 2.8.4 brew install cmake * Qt5 >= 5.3 brew install qt5

Optional packages Python3 brew install python3 HDF5 brew install hdf5 --with-cxx --c++11

Setup Instructions

  1. Clone all repos to your computer. Remember that you choose the parent directory of the repo, such that choosing ~/Inviwo for inviwo-dev will put your files in ~/Inviwo/inviwo-dev

  2. Run CMake (terminal or gui) and run configure using the inviwo-dev directory as your source, and a build directory of your choice outside of the source code. For CMake to find Qt5 automatically we have to add the Qt5 install path to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. This can be done by: 

export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.4.0/; open /Applications/CMake.app

  1. Add path to modules outside of inviwo-dev in IVW_EXTERNAL_MODULES in the format of "~/Inviwo/otherrepo/modules;~/mysite/myrepo/mymodules". Run configure.

  2. Then run "make" on your build directory and you will find the application in build/bin/inviwo.

  3. DONE!

Notes * Edit the ALL_BUILD Scheme in XCode: * Under Run/Info set the Executable to inviwo.exe * Under Run/Options make sure that "Document Versions" is deselected