Thursday, August 11, 2011

How to install the ABySS assembler on OSX

ugh.
After venting all my tribulations in an unpublished blog post. Here is how you install ABySS 1.2.7 on OS X. Keep in mind you need X Code installed.

- download 1.2.7
- make a directory and enter it:
mkdir MAKE
cd MAKE
- run configure. You can set the path of installation with prefix, if desired (it automatically will install in /bin). Then make to install:
../configure --disable-openmp --prefix=/usr/local
make AM_CXXFLAGS=-Wall
sudo make install
- add ABySS to your path (in .profile).

Booya! Now ABySS finally works! I'm not sure if this will work with mpi; See this wiki for details.