OpenModelica?

[Adam Dershowitz]

> On Apr 7, 2018, at 1:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Apr 7, 2018, at 11:27, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
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>> Thanks, that seems to have worked.
>> 
>> To do the remaining steps…
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>> port selfupdate
>> port install gcc44 # With the addition of llvm/clang as the default compiler in XCode, many ports now fail to build unless you force GCC to be used
>> port install openmodelica-devel +libraries +clang 
>> 
>> …should I still stay in that root shell?
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> It does say in their instructions, before those commands, "run (as root):"
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> You will need to be root to selfupdate and install ports, but usually you should do that by putting "sudo" in front of those commands.
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> It's unfortunate they're suggesting you should install an obsolete port like gcc44. The last version of gcc44 was released 6 years ago and we don't support it on High Sierra and later. The current stable version of gcc is gcc7.
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The current version of openmodelica doesn’t need, or use, gcc44 and the +clang variant is also not required.  I think that they have just not updated the mac instructions in a long time.  Currently, all that should be required to install openmodelica-devel is adding the repository to macports, then doing:

sudo port install openmodelica-devel +libraries

(and even +libraries is not necessary, but adds a number of useful libraries)

--Adam