Back to main page ...Regina now builds and runs under MacOS X, thanks to the Fink project.
To run Regina, you will need:
A working source-based Fink installation:
Fink can be used as a binary distribution (download pre-built packages only) or as a source distribution (automatically build each package from sources on your machine). To run Regina you will need the source distribution, since the binary packages for Fink are too old and do not include all of the required software.
You will also need the Apple XCode/Developer Tools (this allows you to build Fink packages) and the Apple X11 distribution including both the X11User and X11SDK packages (this allows you to build packages with graphical user interfaces).
The Quick Start page on the Fink website explains how you can get all of this up and running.
Regina is known to work on MacOS 10.4 (Tiger) with both the Fink stable and unstable branches. It builds happily on MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) with the Fink unstable branch, but the author has not been able to test it personally.
The Fink info file for Regina:
The info file is a short text file that tells Fink how to build and install Regina. You can download it here for the Fink stable branch, or here for the Fink unstable branch. Copy it into /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ so that Fink can find it:
example$ sudo cp regina-normal.info /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
Users of the Fink unstable branch can skip this step, since Regina is now included in the Fink distribution. Please note though that new versions of Regina might not appear in the Fink archive until several weeks after their release.
You can now build and install Regina as you would any other Fink package:
example$ fink install regina-normal
Be prepared to wait, since Fink might need to download and build additional components such as the Boost and KDE libraries.
If you wish to build Regina into your own C++ projects, you will also need the Regina development package:
example$ fink install regina-normal-dev
MacOS X support is relatively new for Regina, so please do mail me at bab@debian.org if you run into difficulties. It is hoped that future releases of Regina can be offered as standalone pre-build Mac applications (the sort that you simply drag onto the hard drive), but we shall see how that goes.