- GBrowse on Mac OS X

- Description
- Prerequisites:
- Quick start:
- Additional Information
- Author

# GBrowse on Mac OS X

## Description

These scripts simplify the installation of GBrowse on Mac OS X.

## Prerequisites:

1. The CPANPLUS module
This module automates the installation of a variety of Perl modules.

2. December 2002 (or greater) Developer Tools

         http://www.apple.com/developer

3. root access
If you do not, you may still install GBrowse and its dependencies in non-standard paths. See the documentation below on ``Installing GBrowse in non-standard paths''.

The Fink package manager is *not* required; instead, all packages are built from source.

## Quick start:

1. Build the libraries and dependencies of GBrowse

       % make libraries

2. Build GBrowse proper

       % make gbrowse

## Additional Information

See the full documentation for installing and using GBrowse on Mac OS X in

         docs/INSTALL.MacOSX.pod

For additional information and configuration options, try

        % perldoc scripts/build-libraries.pl
        % perldoc scripts/build-gbrowse.pl

    =head2 Versions and URLs

Due to inconsistent naming and distribution of dependencies, these scripts rely on a Perl package (BuildConfig.pm) that stores the versions and URLs of dependencies known to work with GBrowse. If you wish to use a newer version of a library, simply edit the BuildConfig.pm file (and drop me a line concerning your results).

## Author

     Todd Harris (harris@cshl.org)
     Copyright @ 2003 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory