homebrew-chaste

Set of Homebrew formulas and related files required to install Chaste (http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/chaste) on Mac OS X.

This repo is currently work in progress and not officially supported by the Chaste project

There are two main use cases I envision for the Chaste formula:

• Installing the Chaste dependencies and copying the source code to a folder defined by the user (e.g. $HOME/workspace). This requires providing a host config file consistent with the user's Homebrew installation.
• Doing a system install of Chaste, such that third-party applications can link against Chaste.

Work to date has focused on the latter.

Usage

Use the following commands to tap and brew (advisable to brew update first):

brew tap homebrew/versions
brew tap homebrew/science
brew tap mobernabeu/chaste
brew install --HEAD chaste -v

If you make local changes to the formula (i.e. editing chaste.rb or related files), you can brew from your local version with

brew install --HEAD chaste.rb -v

Pressing issues:

• At the moment only the cell_based component can be compiled and installed. This is due to the bleeding edge version of HDF5 not being supported by Chaste. There's no older version of HDF5 in the homebrew-versions tap, but I started working towards a HDF5 1.8.9 formula in file hdf5189.rb.

Homebrew cook book and example formula:

• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md
• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Contributions/example-formula.rb