[Radiance-general] Radiance 5 Installation on Mac and RAYPATH properties

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Hi

I am also using the Radiance on OSX. When you use, xquarz when you build is required.

Best.

Koji Takemasa

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2016/03/20 9:35、Thomas Bleicher <tbleicher at gmail.com> のメッセージ:

> Hi Alireza.
> 
> Welcome to the fan club! My answers are below inline.
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Alireza Hashemloo <alireh at uw.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am migrating from Windows to Mac in order to be able to complete the Five Phase Method Tutorial. I have never used the command line on Mac before. So my questions are basic. I was wondering if you could help me with the following questions through a step-by-step instruction if possible:
>> 
>> OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
>> 
>> 1- How can I uninstall an existing Radiance installation on Mac properly?
> 
> That depends on how and where it was installed before. If you have a dedicated folder like /opt/Radiance you can just delete the whole folder. If your binaries are mixed in with others in /usr/local/bin you have to check each file against the list of Radiance binaries and remove it. Support files should be in /usr/local/lib/ray so that's easy to remove.
> 
> In general you don't need to worry about an old installation. The new binaries will just replaced the old ones when installed in the same location. If you pick a new location you just have to make sure that this shows up first in your PATH environment variable.
>  
>> 2- How should I install Radiance on Mac?
> 
> You can download the binaries provided by NREL on github: https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases
> 
> I hope these include all tools required for the 5 phase method. Otherwise you might have to download Xcode and compile yourself.  
>  
>> 3- How can I access my PATH and RAYPATH properties on Mac and make necessary adjustments for proper use of Radiance in the command line (Terminal)?
> 
> If you want to add a new directory to PATH just create a new file in /etc/paths.d/ with the path of the new directory.
> 
> Example:
> 
> file name: /etc/paths.d/Radiance
> file content: /usr/local/Radiance/bin
> 
> Unfortunately, Apple keeps messing with the way how other environment variables are set  so the 'traditional' way via plist files does not work in 10.10/Yosemite any more. If you want to set RAYPATH on Yosemite you can find a solution here:
> 
> http://www.jochenhebbrecht.be/site/2015-04-14/mac/os-x-1010-yosemite-and-environment-variables
> 
> I don't have RAYPATH set in my environment and never had a problem with that. Some of the 5-phase tools may require it, though.
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 
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