On Dec 10, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Tomas Möre tomas.o.more@gmail.com wrote:
Tried the installer on OSX Mavericks with no problems.
Might be obvious but: I remember that there are problems installing Gambit without command line tools.
You have a good point. I will try to launch the installer on a machine where Xcode is not installed.
All OSX users must remember to install xcode and the command line tools. In systems earlier then mavericks this is done directly from xcode. (open the preferences it is in there somewhere sorry don't remember exactly where)
On Mavericks when you have installed xcode simply type "xcode-select --install" into the terminal and it will download and install the necessary compilers. Sadly it always installs clang and llvm, the gcc and g++ on osx binaries links to the llvm equivalents. (by the way the compilation of source files are incredibly slow using clang and llvm!)
Yes, clang is known to compile Gambit slowly. It is a bummer that their "gcc" is really a front for llvm. I try to keep up with the latest GNU gcc on my machine so that I can compile Gambit efficiently. On my MBP with GNU gcc, it takes only 30 seconds of real time to build Gambit with --enable-single-host using "make -j8".
Marc