Installation/Mac OS/OpenFOAM 1.6 and 1.7

This page describes how to install OpenFOAM 1.6 on a Mac OS X. It assumes that you are familiar with compiling OpenFOAM and gives only a rough overview on the process

What to do:

make sure that ~/OpenFOAM is on a case-sensitive file-sytem (either a disk image or a separate partition)
extract the Downloaded -General taballs (OpenFOAM-1.6 and Thirdparty-1.6) there
apply the patches
adapt the hard-coded compiler (gcc-mp-4.3 and g+-mp-4.3) in etc/bashrc and wmake/rules/darwin* to fit your system
source ~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc
Compile OpenFOAM according to the README
Compile ParaView using the makeParaView-script (see the README)
extend this Wiki-page so that those trying after you have it easier

Remarks on the patches:

The patches compiled a complete OF 1.6 (with paraview) on an Intel Mac with Mac OS X 10.5 in 32 bit
In 64 bit everything except paraview gets compiled (there seems to be a general problem with Paraview and 64 bits on the Mac)
PowerPC SHOULD work, but is untested
to enable parallel computations copy the libPstream from $FOAM_LIBBIN/openmpi-1.3.3 to $FOAM_LIBBIN/dummy
your milage may vary
the patch to the OF-directory has been tested on a Linux-system and doesn't break the compilation there. The ThirdParty-patch has not been tested and might break things
in Paraview Pythonhas been automatically enabled

The patches are applied with these commands

cd ~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6
patch -p1 <OpenFOAM-1.6-Mac.patch.v1
cd ~/OpenFOAM/Thirdparty-1.6
patch -p1 <hirdParty-1.6.-Mac.patch.v1

Further information on compiling OF on the Mac can be found here on the board or on this Wiki

The actual patch files:

Patch for OpenFOAM 1.6: File:OpenFOAM-1.6-Mac.patch.v1.gz
Patch for ThirdParty 1.6: File:ThirdParty-1.6.-Mac.patch.v1.gz