[Swarm-Support] Compiling Swarm on Mac OSX 10.6.7

[Gary Polhill]

Hi,

I've been trying to follow what look like some deceptively simple
instructions for compiling and installing Swarm on Mac OSX Snow Leopard at
http://www.swarm.org/index.php/Guides/MacOSX/QuickInstall

To cut a (very) long story short, I got here:

** BUILD FAILED **


The following build commands failed:
Swarm:
        CompileC
build/Swarm.build/Release/Swarm.build/Objects-normal/i386/swarm_rts_routine
s.o
/Users/gp1073/swarm/src/Swarm-7903/Swarm/swarm/macosx/SwarmOSX/../../src/ob
jectbase/swarm_rts_routines.m normal i386 objective-c
com.apple.compilers.gcc.4_2
(1 failure)

By:


* Specifically retrieving revision 7903 from the Swarm subversion
repository (build halted with 139 failures using later 7942 revision
retrieved today)
* Installing versions 2.62 of autoconf, 1.10.1 of automake, and 2.2.6b of
libtool (later versions generated warning messages, and the build halted
with four failures)
* Copying GNU sed 4.2 over /usr/bin/sed to stop make-h2x using it

The problem in swarm_rts_routines.m is that the _C_CONST, _C_IN, _C_INOUT,
_C_OUT, _C_BYCOPY and _C_ONEWAY constants are not defined in function
'skip_type_qualifiers'. These constants are defined in objc/runtime.h
(_C_CONST) and swarm-objc-apple2.h. The latter is included from
swarm-objc-api.h if OBJC_API_VERSION >= 2 and __NEXT_RUNTIME__. Otherwise,
if __NEXT_RUNTIME__, swarm-objc-apple.h is included. This file is just
comments in what I have (does this mean some earlier script didn't do its
job), so I tried copying swarm-objc-apple2.h over it. I then got this:

** BUILD FAILED **


The following build commands failed:
Swarm:
        CompileC
build/Swarm.build/Release/Swarm.build/Objects-normal/i386/DefClass.o
/Users/gp1073/swarm/src/Swarm-7903/Swarm/swarm/macosx/SwarmOSX/../../src/de
fobj/DefClass.m normal i386 objective-c com.apple.compilers.gcc.4_2
        CompileC
build/Swarm.build/Release/Swarm.build/Objects-normal/i386/Schedule.o
/Users/gp1073/swarm/src/Swarm-7903/Swarm/swarm/macosx/SwarmOSX/../../src/ac
tivity/Schedule.m normal i386 objective-c com.apple.compilers.gcc.4_2
(2 failures)

... but I guess we can ignore that since there must be some other problem
causing all this.


I have Xcode version 3.2.5 (1760), if that's of any relevance.

Any hints you have on any way of getting a working version of Swarm on
Snow Leopard much appreciated (e.g. should I just install gcc, etc., and
build a Linux rather than native Apple version?)

Thanks,
Gary

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Gary Polhill
Human-Natural Systems Research Scientist
The James Hutton Institute
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