My new user IQ issues....seeking assistance with building VICAR on Mac

[likens...@gmail.com]

To the VICAR community:

I’m brand new to learning about VICAR, having only recently learned that it can now be run on a Macintosh.  At the same time I’m working on learning the basics of UNIX, at least to the extent that I can get VICAR running, but I’m having trouble with setting the environment to run VICAR on my Mac OS 10:  I can’t get my computer to understand V2TOP any better than I do. 

 My first question is how to clarify the line

 “cd $V2TOP”

in the Build Instructions?  If I use the command setenv it will declare the name and whatever I’m saying it equals, which is a directory, but then it won’t recognize it.  “Adjust V2TOP as needed” is a loaded statement….it would be nice simply to cd  to the folder and then tell V2TOP to go to the pwd, but that doesn’t work.

I downloaded the package and the externals, and everything referred to by the documentation is there - how do I point $V2TOP to the …/vos directory (in PWD below)?

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin

PWD=/Users/user/desktop/vicariousrrlocal/nasa-vicar-539ed07/vos

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Aside from the obvious “switch to Photoshop,” are there any suggestions from users out there who have gotten VICAR running on a similar Mac?  I’m sure it’s a relatively simple answer…

Cheers!

John L.

 

[Bunch, Walter L (398E)]

Hi John,

 

I’m assuming you have XQuartz installed (X-Windows server for the Mac). When I start an xterm window in XQuartz, I’m dropped into a bash shell. You’ll want to switch to tcsh (an enhanced csh) by typing the “tcsh” command. Then setenv should be defined for you. Then…

 

setenv V2TOP /Users/user/desktop/vicariousrrlocal/nasa-vicar-539ed07/vos

 

should do what you’re asking. When you then source vicset1.csh and vicset2.csh, it will complain about your V2TOP having upper case characters (“Users”). You could fix that with a soft link, or just ignore it. It should work anyway.

 

Walt

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VICAR Open Source" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vicar-open-sou...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to vicar-op...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vicar-open-source/afd36d80-d5a6-4a36-892b-53c77379f772%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.