Problems in making GAIA index files + installation issues of Astrometry.net

chandra sunil

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Aug 21, 2023, 7:14:49 AM8/21/23

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Dear All,

I should first admit that I am very new to use astrometry.net and willing to integrate to my pipeline for blind astrometry of fields.

I am using MAC OS (Ventura) with a pip installed astrometry package which enables me to use solve-field, sky2xy, xy2sky etc successfully. I am aiming to extend my applications by using GAIA EDR2(or 3) catalog for solving the fields. Or, adding a switch between use of Tyco-2MASS and GAIA databases (index files).

After searching on GitHub I got this package which helps in building Index files using GAIA database https://github.com/LCOGT/gaia-astrometry-net. I tried building this package in my system after cloning this package but it fails saying can not found astrometry.utill package.

Is there any other way to just install this package along-with already working astrometry package? Then make the above mentioned index files.

Alternatively, I tried building the astrometry.net from scratch (latest version on MacOS or after cloning from https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net). It fails miserably: I get the following error(s).

Please help me getting this issue solved and a smooth run of this fantastic package with my photometry pipeline.

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Sunil Chandra

make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C solver

gcc -o image2xy -g -Wall -ffinite-math-only -fno-signaling-nans -pthread -march=native -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -fpic -fPIC -Winline image2xy-main.o image2xy-files.o libastrometry.a ../catalogs/libcatalogs.a ../util/libanfiles.a ../libkd/libkd.a ../util/libanutils.a ../qfits-an/libqfits.a ../util/libanbase.a ../gsl-an/libgsl-an.a -lm -lm

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:

"_ffclos", referenced from: