[SOSlib-discuss] how to compile SBML ODESolver library under Mac OS X

[Hendrik F. <fu...@ul...>]

Hi everyone,

one of the older threads in the archive was about problems running =20
configure under Linux. After a long day, I managed to compile SOSlib =20
under Mac OS 10.4 and thought I'd share this brief how-to with you.

1. As mentioned in requirements you need SUNDIALS 2.1.1 and *NOT* the =20=

latest version. I can confirm version 2.2.0 does NOT work.

2. Configure sundials with "./configure --prefix=3D/usr/local", make =20
and make install as usual

3. Change to SBML_odeSolver directory. If you compiled libSBML with =20
expat rather than xerces, the configure script needs modification. =20
Run the following command:

perl -p -i~ -e 's/-lxerces-c/-lexpat/g;' examples/Makefile.in =20
examples/Makefile.am odeSolver/Makefile.am odeSolver/Makefile.in =20
configure

4. Configure should now run smoothly

5. On my system, make threw an error in the very last linking step, =20
saying that it couldn't find libexpat, even though /sw/lib was =20
included in the LDFLAGS environment variable. I simply linked the =20
file manually by just adding -L/sw/lib to the gcc command line.

Done. make install worked fine for me. Hope this was helpful.

Hendrik

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Hendrik Fu=DF
PhD student
Systems Biology Research Group

University of Ulster, School of Biomedical Sciences
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