mac install notes..

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When installing ROS onto MAC I have a couple of notes that might help for anyone in the future when first installing onto MAC.

Firstly perhaps even before you start installing anything. ROS uses BASH so you have to change your terminal program to talk this way. Start a Terminal, then under the headings select Terminal > Preferences. Under the Startup Tab change the Shells open with to Command. /bin/bash Now when you start a new terminal it will start Bash.

Secondly, create youre .bashrc file as normal in your home directory and as the page describes, but you need to make it read it when starting up. In your home directory also create a .bash_profile file and put the following text in it.

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi

this will simply run your .bashrc when it starts up. type "env" and check the details are correct.

I found that I was getting alot of error when trying to install Homebrew, and found that a restart helped after installing the command line tools etc. (Not totally sure of this)

When installing Using brew I found it very useful to use Brew doctor as it pointed to errors. A common one was another script found which I don't think effects anything, despite I am only half way through.

I found that when installing some of the packages such as boost etc. I had to get the non ROS one as it could not find the ROS one, Not sure what was happening here.

For log4cxx it kept saying could not find glibtoolize , this isn't actually a part of glib but is actually a part of libtool, so brew install libtool and that fixes it.

To install swig-wx I followed the following page. http://ardadv.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/using-ros-robot-operating-system-fuerte.html

and basically did the following..

cd /Library/Caches/Homebrew/swigwx--git ./configure make make install