Lion

Process for getting up and running with my toolchain on Mac OS X Lion:

• Dotfiles:
  • .profile
  • .bashrc
  • .aliases
  • .vimrc
  • .inputrc
• MacVim http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
• Quicksilver http://qsapp.com/
• Divvy http://mizage.com/divvy/
• iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home
• Compilers: ORDER OF OPERATIONS IS VERY IMPORTANT HERE...
  • Step 1: Install Kenneth Reitz's GCC tools instead https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
    • NOTE: This is supposed to install the vImage.h header, but for some reason it doesn't work, so any gcc/clang/llvm compilation line that has a header file pointing to <vImage/vImage.h> does not compile properly. This is the case with, e.g., Scipy. So, install XCode to fix that.
  • Step 2: Install Apple's XCode
    • NOTE: installing Apple's XCode will overwrite the versions of clang and llvm from Kenneth Reitz's GCC tools, but at least you'll still have gcc.
• Git http://git-scm.com/
  • Note: you'll have to add /usr/local/git/bin to the front of your path in case your system, like mine, has an old crusty version of git installed
• Homebrew http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/
  • Edit /etc/paths and move /usr/local/bin to the top line, so that Homebrew stuff always comes first
  • gfortran
  • hdf5
• Python stuff (see Python#Packages page for my general approach to installing Python packages; I install packages by hand whenever possible)
  • numpy
  • cython
  • scipy
    • I ran into a problem with vImage.h, solution is here: Scipy vImage.h Problem
  • dateutil
  • ipython (installing instructions on the iPython page)
  • nose https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nose/1.3.0
  • gitpython
  • h5py
  • pandas
  • statsmodels
• MacTeX http://www.tug.org/mactex/downloading.html
• R http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/
• VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/
• Evernote http://www.evernote.com
• AMP (apache, mysql, PHP) following this guide: http://www.astonishdesign.com/blog/native-lamp-stack-mac-os-x
  • NOTE: this is not MAMP... MAMP is a headache. This uses Homebrew instead.