MacOS System Requirements, Conventions, and Installation

System requirements
Conventions
Installation

System requirements

This toolkit is known to run on MacOS Snow Leopard 10.7.x (latest update). We no longer test on Leopard (10.5.x) and Snow Leopard (10.6.x), but previous versions of MAT have been known to run straightforwardly on these platforms. We believe that Mountain Lion (10.8.x) also works, but we haven't tested it rigorously.

This toolkit depends on a number of external tools which must be installed before you install MAT. For the Mac version, they are:

Python, version 2.6 or later. Most of our development is currently on 2.7. 3.x is known not to work. See the installation notes below for more details.
Java, version 1.6.0_04 or later.
MacOS X Developer Tools (optional)

Conventions

The conventions are identical to the Unix conventions.

Installation

To prepare MacOS for installation of this toolkit, follow these steps:

Optionally, if you have not done so already, install the Terminator tabbed terminal application. This application, if found, is used by the MAT Web server as a graphical interface; the Web server also runs in the terminal, so you do not need this application. Terminator is distributed with this toolkit; you can find the zip file in the external/ subdirectory. The zip file will expand into a directory named "terminator" which contains the Terminator application; drag the Terminator application out of that directory and into /Applications.
Ensure that you have a recent version of Java. If you have 1.6.0_04 or later in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions, you're all set.

Once you've completed these steps, you may proceed with the installation, as follows:

Untar/unzip the distribution (you must have already done that to read this).
In a terminal window, where <toolkit_dir> is the root directory of the distribution:
```
% cd <toolkit_dir>
% ./install.sh
```

During the installation, you might be prompted for various paths and locations which the toolkit requires.