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Tips for Mac users

The mac executable is not shipped with JavaStics anymore. Mac users have to build stics from source. Here is a tutorial to do so.

Install JavaStics

Download the latest version of JavaStics. If you don't have an account yet, you'll have to register first. Then go the this link and download the latest version of JavaStics, it is JavaSTICS-1.5.1-STICS-10.0.0.zip as the time of this writing.

Then, unzip the file and move the folder to your home directory (or any other directory you want).

Install STICS

Download the source code

Download the latest version of STICS from the same link. It is STICS-sources-v10.0.0-r3392_with_makefiles.zip as the time of this writing. Then, unzip the file and move the folder wherever you want.

Set up the environment

STICS is developed in FORTRAN, so we need to install a compiler. The easiest way to do so is to install Homebrew.

Then, we need to install Xtools (which is a part of Xcode). To do so, open a terminal and run the following command:

sudo xcode-select --install

And then:

brew install gcc

This will install the GNU compiler collection, which includes the gfortran compiler.

If these tools have been installed previously and a MacOS system update has been made after that, they must be reinstalled to have the updated gfortran libraries.

  • Remove the command line tools:
sudo rm -fR /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
  • Install them again following the previous steps (xcode + gcc).

Install the Fortran Package Mananager (FPM):

brew tap fortran-lang/homebrew-fortran
brew install fpm

Compile the executable

Open a terminal in the folder where you unzipped the STICS source code. Then, run the following commands:

cd stics
fpm install --prefix .

This will create a bin folder in the stics folder, with the Stics executable inside.

Move the executable

Rename the Stics executable into stics_modulo_mac, and move it to the bin folder inside the JavaSTICS-1.5.1-STICS-10.0.0/bin folder. Then, you can run the JavaSTICS-1.5.1-STICS-10.0.0 executable, and it will use this new executable by default!

Open JavaStics

Before running JavaSTICS, please refer to the documentation for getting which version of java is required. For the moment, java 11 is needed. Informations about switching between java installed versions or defining aliases can be found here

To run JavaStics, you have to execute the following command in a terminal if the default java version is 11:

java -jar JavaStics.exe

Otherwise, an alias pointing to the java 11 executable location may be used instead of java in the command line (i.e. java11 -jar ...)

And that's it! You can now use JavaStics on your mac!

Troubleshooting

If you are running SticsRPacks' tutorial, you have to put the stic_modulo_mac executable in the javastics folder that was automatically installed.