What I did to compile TISEAN on OS X High Sierra

compile_tisean.md

Compile TISEAN on OS X High Sierra

Install relevant compilers

Follow the installation instructions on http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ to install the latest binaries of gcc and gfortran for Mac OS X.

The important part is, download the gcc-8.1 binary, then do, quote

cd to the download folder. Then gunzip gcc-8.1-bin.tar.gz (if your browser didn't do so already) and then sudo tar -xvf gcc-8.1-bin.tar -C /"

I also had to do

export PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH"

Otherwise I would get the error that 'm' is an unknown flag because it would load the wrong binary. You can also just add the line above to your ~/.bash_profile and do source ~/.bash_profile.

Download TISEAN

This is the relevant page https://www.pks.mpg.de/~tisean/archive_3.0.0.html

Execute the following to compile in ~/Library

cd ~/Library
wget https://www.pks.mpg.de/~tisean/TISEAN_3.0.1.zip
unzip TISEAN_3.0.1.zip -d TISEAN
mv TISEAN/TISEAN_3.0.1/* TISEAN
rmdir TISEAN/TISEAN_3.0.1/
rm TISEAN_3.0.1.zip
cd TISEAN

Compile

Execute

export FC=gfortran; ./configure --prefix=~/Library/TISEAN
make 
make install

Execution

Your binaries are now in ~/Library/TISEAN/bin. You can execute, e.g. mutual by calling ~/Library/TISEAN/bin/mutual or you add ~/Library/TISEAN/bin to your PATH variable and just call mutual from the command line.

Install Tisean using Homebrew

There's an easier way of installing Tisean using the custom package manager for Mac OS X called Homebrew.

Install Homebrew

First, if you have not yet, please install Homebrew.

Install Tisean

Now, do

brew tap brewsci/science
brew install tisean

Hi Ben,

Thanks for this useful tips!
I am trying to install Tisean on a MacOS Catalina, and I am running into problems as all of the Tisean scripts are listed under "the following programs could not be installed" section. I suspect the problem is already at the configuration stage, as four of the requirements are not met:

I have also tried the Homebrew installation but this returns me the following message:
==> Downloading https://archive.org/download/brewsci/bottles-science/tisean-3.0.1_4.sierra.bottle.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://ia801805.us.archive.org/0/items/brewsci/bottles-science/tisean-3.0.1_4.sierra.bottle.tar.gz
-#O#- # #
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Error: tisean: Failed to download resource "tisean"
Download failed: https://archive.org/download/brewsci/bottles-science/tisean-3.0.1_4.sierra.bottle.tar.gz

I was just wondering whether you might also have run in the same problem, and if so, could you kindly share any tips on how to solve it?
I apologise if this is not the appropriate place to ask this, and if so please let me know and I can post my question somewhere else!
I have found very limited documentation online and I am not familiar with compiling binaries, so I thought I'd give it a try.

Thank you so much in advance for any help you might be able to provide :)

Irene

Hi Irene, I just wrote this while taking part in a summer school in which we used TISEAN. Never used it afterwards, so I fear I won't be of much help. I think you're correct, though, it looks as if your system is lacking some dependencies. At least malloc.h seems important. While I'd recommend installing the dependencies with homebrew, have you tried installing TISEAN with homebrew? it seems to be much less of a hassle.

Cheers
Ben

Hey Ben,

Thank you so much for your reply!
I did try to install it using Homebrew but I also got an error (see below). Thank you very much for your suggestion, I will definitively start looking into the dependencies! :)

hm, for me it downloads from Dresden.

ᐅ  brew install tisean
==> Downloading https://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean/TISEAN_3.0.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/bfmaier/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/d1a974e909bccdc5dde880b25015abe6c6ef02f23d22de8e7f1c94b7f17d170f--TISEAN_3.0.1.tar.gz
==> Installing tisean from brewsci/science
==> ./configure --prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/tisean/3.0.1_4

maybe brew update first?

Anyway, probably won't work, I get the following error:

==> Downloading https://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean/TISEAN_3.0.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/bfmaier/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/d1a974e909bccdc5dde880b25015abe6c6ef02f23d22de8e7f1c94b7f17d170f--TISEAN_3.0.1.tar.gz
==> Installing tisean from brewsci/science
==> ./configure --prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/tisean/3.0.1_4
==> make
==> make install
Last 15 lines from /Users/bfmaier/Library/Logs/Homebrew/tisean/03.make:
2022-09-19 14:59:41 +0000

make
install

if test -n ""; then (cd source_f && /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make missing); fi
if test -n "clang"; then (cd source_c && /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make missing); fi
make: *** [do_install] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Do not report this issue to Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core!

I have the latest version of Homebrew so not sure it is due to that.. the file it is trying to download does not exist at that address so that is why it fails. I will keep trying and will post if I find a solution! :)
Thank you so much for your help!!

Hm, you probably know that, but in case you don't: brew update is not about updating brew to a newer version of itself, it's run to update the formulas (i.e. the ruby scripts that determine which files to download and to install etc). In any case, it's good to run brew update once in a while to update these formulas.

In the brewsci-repository, it looks like the Dresden address is hardcoded (see https://github.com/brewsci/homebrew-science/blob/master/Formula/tisean.rb):

  homepage "https://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean/"
  url "https://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean/TISEAN_3.0.1.tar.gz"

which led me to believe that your formula is outdated. However, the address your brew uses is also in the file:

 bottle do
    root_url "https://archive.org/download/brewsci/bottles-science"

So, I don't know :) the formula itself seems to have been updated last over a year ago, so I think it'd probably be a good idea to open an issue about this install not working anymore at https://github.com/brewsci/homebrew-science/issues regarding tisean.rb . Or you ping @sjackman or @cxwx directly, who seem to have contributed to this formula the most.

Good luck!

Good idea! I will do that.

Hello @faimai00!
I am trying to install TISEAN on macOS Monterey and I am facing the same problem with https://archive.org/download/brewsci/bottles-science/tisean-3.0.1_4.sierra.bottle.tar.gz
Could you please tell me if you contacted @sjackman and @cxwx or if you managed to install TISEAN?

Hi @OleksandraOst
Unfortunately I gave up with installing TISEAN as I was tight with time whilst working on the project that required it. I did not contact @sjackman or @cxwx. Really sorry I cannot help with this. Perhaps try to contact them now?
Sorry to hear this is an ongoing issue. Good luck!

Have you folks tried installing/compiling from scratch as described in the first half of the gist?