[ncl-talk] NCL and El Capitan

[Alan Brammer]

I just installed NCL on 10.11 on a fresh laptop and got it working straight away with no issues using brew / brew cask package manager.  https://caskroom.github.io

once home-brew is installed it’s as simple as 

brew cask install ncar-ncl

The git repo was updated yesterday to acknowledge that the 10.10 version works with 10.11 so if you already had brew make sure you update first. 

The environment variables that are listed in the `brew cask info ncar-ncl ` which worked for me
 are the obvious 
 	export NCARG_ROOT=/usr/local/ncl-6.3.0
	export PATH=$NCARG_ROOT/bin:"$PATH”
and 
 export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=$(dirname $(gfortran --print-file-name libgfortran.3.dylib)):$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH


This install the 10.10 version which seems to work fine on 10.11.  Have had it running on my main computer since 10.11 came out without issue. 
brew will install both gcc and xquartz as dependencies, if they are not installed/found already. 


Alan




> On 15 Jun 2016, at 05:12, Guido Cioni <guidocioni at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been having problems with NCL on El Capitan since months, but thought it was my fault. Now I’m starting to think there is some problem with the distribution. 
> I think the issues arise because NCL is compiled with a gcc version older than the one installed on El Capitan (6.1.0. vs 4.9.2). I also tried to set the environmental variables to a folder where I downloaded the older version of gcc but still get issues..
> 
> export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/gcc/4.9.0/lib
> export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/gcc48/4.8.5/lib/gcc/4.8
> 
> I didn’t explore the issue since I usually run NCL on the cluster, but it would be nice to know if someone is aware of this issue with El Capitan.
> 
> Guido Cioni
> http://guidocioni.altervista.org <http://guidocioni.altervista.org/> 
> 
>> On 15 Jun 2016, at 11:05, Benjamin Lamptey <bllamptey at gmail.com <mailto:bllamptey at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> I have installed NCL ncl_ncarg-6.3.0.MacOS_10.11_64bit_gcc530.tar.gz
>> on my MacBook Pro (running El Capitan) but I get the following error
>> 
>> ================
>> bash-3.2$ ncl
>> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
>>   Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ncl
>>   Reason: image not found
>> Trace/BPT trap: 5
>> =================
>> 
>> I installed gcc 6.1.0 and gfortan 6.1.0 before doing the NCL installation.
>> 
>> When I got the error, I included the following line in both my .bash_profile and .profile files
>> ===============
>> export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib/gcc5
>> ===========
>> but it does not solve the error.
>> 
>> Any help will be appreciated.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Ben
>> 
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