[gschaider]

Hi!

I managed to compile 1.5 on my iBook and I thought I might share my experience with the other Mac-Heads out there. Two words of caution:

- I only have a PowerPC-iBook with 10.4 available (so the milage for the Intel/10.5-guys out there might vary)
- the description is very short. Some info about previous versions (found on the Wiki and here) might be applicable (especially the disk-image etc)

So be ready to wear your asbestos-pants (like a certain Canadian usually says). Previous experience with compiling OF helps

I assume you have a Lower/Upper-case filesystem available.
The two patch-files OpenFOAM-1.5-Mac-v1.patch.gz and ThirdParty1.5-Mac-v1.patch are to be applied with "patch -p0 <patchfile" in the appropriate directories (figure it out from the filename)

After that compilation should work as described in the Release-notes

Some notes:
- On my system I use the ancient vendor supplied gcc 4.0.1 (don't know what the version is for 10.5)
- I don't know the correct output of 'uname -p' on Intel-Macs. Could somebody please supply me with that so that I can update the scripts
- I distinguish two architectures darwinPpc and darwinIntel. This might be a slight overkill and of course some of the #ifdefs are untested on Intels
- My only testing so far was running interFoam on the damBreak-case and building household appliances for eskimos (you'll know the tutorial case when you see it) with snappyHexMesh. All of them successfully
- due to the linker options some applications might compile AT RUNTIME about missing symbols. Usually from the finiteVolume-library. Add -lfiniteVolume in the Make/options-file of that application and recompile it.
- I didn't bother to build the supplied version of paraView yet. So you'll have to go via the foamToVTK/downloadedParaviewBinary-route
- The OpenMPI from ThirdParty is used (no need to get the one from ports)
- For one of the (PAR)Metis-libraries the .dylib has to be copied to the corresponding .so (can't remember which one) Otherwise one of the linker scripts in ThirdParty won't find it
- The only application that does not yet compile for me is the cht-solver (I blame the old compiler)

Feedback that helps to improve the patch is most welcome

Bernhard