Mosflm on OS X
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Mosflm and XDS are both freely available X-ray diffraction data processing software systems.  Please note that CCP4 also installs mosflm, so you do not need to do this separately unless you are trying to update to a newer version.


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Summary of my recommended installation:

Do any one of these three installations to obtain a g77/gcc compiled mosflm:

  1. Use what is distributed with CCP4, version 6.2.4, which is no longer current.

  2. Use fink to install mosflm or mosflm-small, , which are version 6.2.5 large-display and small-display, respectively, i.e.,

    % fink install mosflm

    or, if you have configured fink to use my precopiled binaries, you can just issue

    % sudo apt-get install mosflm


  3. Download the binary distribution Harry Powell distributes.

If you prefer a faster alternative, David Gohara has compiled mosflm using the IBM xlf/xlc compilers.

You'll find a "lib" subdirectory in the mosflm download that contains a bunch of dymamic libraries.  If you run otool -L on the  mosflm executable, you will see output that looks like this:

% otool -L mosflm
mosflm:
  ... /opt/ibmcmp/lib/libibmc++.A.dylib ...


This tells us that for best results, put the dynamic libraries into a directory called /opt/ibmcmp/lib (you will have to create it unless you have the ibm compilers).  (If you want to put these elsewhere, then you must set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.  It is better to avoid this if you can.)









In Addition...

 

Installing XDS :  binary available

XDS is another data processing program.  I have never used it.  You should download two files from the web site:



XDS-OSX.tar.Z  -- the actual program

XDS_html_doc.tar.Z -- documentation and template scripts.


Then follow the directions on the web page


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