Is it possible to run GridLab-D on macOS Catalina? - macos-catalina

Question

I have downloaded and installed the latest version of GridLAB on my macbook running with macOS 10.15.5 Catalina.
However I am struggling to find and follow a step by step guide to install and use it on my mac.
Can anyone please help me with this.
At the same time, I tried to check the version of Gridlab with
gridlabd --version
However, it resulted in the following error message in the terminal.
% gridlabd --version
dyld: Symbol not found: __ZdlPvm
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/gridlabd
Expected in: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
in /usr/local/bin/gridlabd
zsh: abort gridlabd --version
I have used Gridlab earlier on a Windows machine but I am struggling to get it run on a mac.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I got the similar issue on MacOS Big Sur.
I followed the official building instruction with some modifications to build gridlabd successfully on mac. The detailed steps:
Install homebrew
% /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Install git, gcc, autoconf, automake, libtool, gnu-sed
% brew install git gcc autoconf automake libtool gnu-sed
Get gridlabd source code with git
% git clone https://github.com/gridlab-d/gridlab-d.git
Checkout to v4.1.0
% cd gridlab-d
% git checkout -b branch-v4.1.0 v4.1.0
build and install XercesC and cppunit:
% cd third_party
% tar -xzf xerces-c-3.2.0.tar.gz
% cd xerces-c-3.2.0
% ./configure --disable-static CFLAGS=-O2 CXXFLAGS=-O2
% make && make install
# note you need to input you system password before the final step of the following command
% bash install_cppunit
Finally change back to the main code directory, and modify the files of climate/climate.cpp and gldcore/platform.h:
% cd ..
% vim climate/climate.cpp
% vim gldcore/platform.h
% git diff
diff --git a/climate/climate.cpp b/climate/climate.cpp
index ad2b0a08..2441d710 100644
--- a/climate/climate.cpp
+++ b/climate/climate.cpp
## -9,6 +9,7 ##
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <math.h>
+#include <cmath>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
diff --git a/gldcore/platform.h b/gldcore/platform.h
index f60367ea..93793256 100644
--- a/gldcore/platform.h
+++ b/gldcore/platform.h
## -45,8 +45,10 ##
#ifndef isfinite
#define isfinite finite
#endif
- #define min fmin /**< min macro */
- #define max fmax /**< max macro */
+ //#define min fmin /**< min macro */
+ //#define max fmax /**< max macro */
+ #define max(a,b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))
+ #define min(a,b) ((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b))
#ifdef X64
#define NATIVE int64 /**< native integer size */
#else
configure and build
% autoreconf -isf
% CFLAGS=-Wno-everything CPPFLAGS=-Wno-everything ./configure
% make && make install
Check gridlabd installation:
% gridlabd --version
GridLAB-D 4.1.0-18109 (Lugo [46541cb8:branch-v4.1.0:Mod]) 64-bit MACOSX RELEASE