[mcstas-users] MacOS installation issues

[Peter Kjær Willendrup]

Hi Chris,


As you know we have fixed the issue, communicating further outside the mailinglist. A GitHub issue defined today describes the issue and two solutions that are now in place:

https://github.com/McStasMcXtrace/McCode/issues/868

(In the process I have uploaded a patched version of McStas 2.5 for the Mac that now runs out of the box on fresh Mojave and Catalina installations. Will announce this separately also.)


Best,

Peter

On 3 Oct 2019, at 16.56, Peter Kjær Willendrup <pkwi at fysik.dtu.dk<mailto:pkwi at fysik.dtu.dk>> wrote:

Hi Christopher,


Just to be completely sure you didn't miss a step in the procedure?

1) Download and unzip http://download.mcstas.org/mcstas-2.5/mac/mcstas-2.5.tgz

2) Drag McStas-2.5.app and McStas-2.5-environment.command to /Applications  (This step is more important than one should think, in fact the app is not completely relocatable!)

3) Run the Check-PY-dependencies.command (Please ensure that it “finds” the right app in /Applications and not an earlier installation)

4) If you want to be able to run the old mcrun.pl --test, please also run Check-PL-dependencies.command in a similar fashion. (Needs to be mcrun.pl, the bare mcrun is Python-based and currently does not include a test)

5) McStas no longer automatically/fullt installs itself to the macOS system PATH. To get this, either
* Double-click McStas-2.5-environment.command in /Applications
* execute mcstas-2.5-environment in a Terminal.app if you let the dependency-scripts above install that alias


Please let me know if any of the above helps or not? - And be sure to write me again (maybe off-list) with any further diagnostics you may be able go get - e.g. terminal output when issuing mcgui in the above “environment” etc.

Best

Peter


On 3 Oct 2019, at 15.29, Christopher Ridley - UKRI STFC <christopher.ridley at stfc.ac.uk<mailto:christopher.ridley at stfc.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Peter,

I am having some trouble using the install package for Mcstas 2.5 on MacOS 10.14.6. It seems that the python dependency tests all pass fine, and the GUI runs, but doesn’t seem to be working fully. The links to the templated instruments under the file menu are missing, the logo is missing. I tried to run the 'mcrun —test' in the command line, but it doesn’t look as if mcrun has been added to the path, as the command isn’t recognised. It seems to run a test instrument, but perhaps with a few error messages. Any idea what’s missing from the installation? I have attached the output from the test run.

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Best Wishes,
Chris
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