Mac Installation problem

[Ahmet Görgün]

Hello, I just started learning J. I've been using the Playground and it works great but I'd like to have a proper installation. 

My first question is, can I install J on my MacBook Air with M1 chip? Since, the download link said Mac64, I installed it on an older Intel MacBook Air.

At this point, I have J9.7 folder in Applications. jconsole is in bin. I can open and use jconsole.

But jqt is in J9.7 folder and I was unable to open that. I understand that I need to install it separately.

I tried to install pacman in jconsole and that does not work:

(base) a@A-MacBook-Air ~ % /Applications/j9.7/bin/jconsole ; exit;
   load 'pacman'
   'install' jpkg 'plot'

   load 'plot'
not found: /applications/j9.7/addons/graphics/plot/plot.ijs
|file name error in script, executing monad 0!:0
|nonexistent file or invalid filename
|       0!:0 y_:

There seems to be a problem with my installation. Can you help resolve the issue?

Thanks.

[LdBeth]

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> Hello, I just started learning J. I've been using the Playground and it works great but I'd like
> to have a proper installation.

> My first question is, can I install J on my MacBook Air with M1 chip? Since, the download link
> said Mac64, I installed it on an older Intel MacBook Air.

Yes, the binary is compatible with both architecture.

> At this point, I have J9.7 folder in Applications. jconsole is in bin. I can open and use
> jconsole.

> But jqt is in J9.7 folder and I was unable to open that. I understand that I need to install it
> separately.

run

'install'jpkg'*'


to install all packages, including the qt libraries.

[bill lam]

The mac 64-bit is a universal binary for intel x86_64 (non-avx) and arm64.
It works on all mac platforms. But if you are using Mac Intel with
avx2 support,
you should consider download the avx2 binary. See jwiki for
installation procedure.

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[A G]

Thanks. 'install'jpkg'*' worked fine and I opened jqt. I'll continue with this intel computer for now, later I can install it to M1.

In a reply to my initial email Chris Burke mentioned this:

As it happens, we are just introducing a script that will install J
with Jqt and the Addons. You can get this from the usual download
page:

  www.jsoftware.com/download/j9.7/install/j9.7.0-beta10_mac64_install.zip

Unzip the file, then in a terminal run the script jinstall.command
which will list out the parameters:

  ./jinstall.command

You probably want the default, i.e.

  ./jinstall.command --default

I assume when I decide to install J on M1 machine I can use the mentioned link, correct?

Thanks again for all the help.

[A G]

Thanks, for now I was able to install jqt on my intel machine and it all works fine.

[Devon McCormick]

I've installed J on a new Mac with an M4 chip and am seeing some significant performance improvements compared to my older PC desktop (Intel i9-10900F).  I'll be showing some results at next month's NYCJUG meeting.

Devon McCormick