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Mac OS X
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Cadabra builds with the standard Apple compiler, but in order to
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build on OS X you need a number of packages from Homebrew (see
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http://brew.sh). Install these packages with::
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Cadabra builds with the standard Apple compiler, but in order to build
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on OS X you need a number of packages from Homebrew (see
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http://brew.sh). Quite a few Homebrew installations have broken
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permissions; best to first do::
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sudo chown -R ${USER}:admin /usr/local/
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to clean that up. Then install the required dependencies with::
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brew install cmake boost pcre gmp python3
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brew uninstall boost-python

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