A. Platform Specific Build Information

A.1 Mac OS X

Gazebo has been successfully built on Mac OS X 10.2, using the following steps.

1. Install Apple's X11 and X11 developer packages; these can be obtained from Apple's website with a little bit of scrounging.
2. Install Fink; this can be obtained from
   http://fink.sourceforge.net/
3. Use Fink to install other packages, such as libxml2, gdal and gdal-dev.
4. Install ODE as per normal, then run ranlib on the installed library:

     $ ranlib [path_to_ode_lib]/libode.a
   

5. Set the compiler include path. In bash shell:

     $ export CPATH=/usr/X11R6/include:/sw/include:/sw/include/gdal1
     $ export CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp
   

   Note the extra include paths (Fink sometimes installs things in weird places).
6. Configure and build Gazebo as per normal.