HOWTO_MAC.md

This document describes how to create DMG package on MAC OSX.

1. Run ./build_dmg_image_using_brew.sh

• This script create an empty dmg file.
• Mount it on /Volume/Moose_3.0.2
• Install brew in it with prefix /Volumes/Moose_3.0.2 and brew install moose with given prefix.
• It also adds an moosegui script which launches gui and also setup PYTHONPATH in ~/.bash_profile.

2. Run ./release_dmg_file.sh

• Copy the dmg created in step 1 and mount it.
• Remove unneccessay files brew uninstall cmake gcc. This saves us approx 400 MB.
• Create another dmg file from folder and compress it.
• Compress this dmg file and test it on some MAC.