How to install Scilab on Macintosh boxes?

9 How to install Scilab on Macintosh boxes?

Requirements

You need a Macintosh with a 68020 (or better) processor with 8 Mb RAM and 7 Mb Hard Disk space at least to use Scilab. 68030 + 68882 (fpu) or PowerPC are recommanded. Scilab 2.6 works on System Mac OS 10 (v5.5 and v6.1) but Scilab 2.7 is not available for Mac.

Installing Scilab

First create a folder called 'scilab-2.6' or whatever. You need to ftp macros.sea.hqx , RebuildLibs.sea.hqx, demos.sea.hqx, man.sea.hqx, and scilab-(ppc, fpu or nofpu).sea.hqx depending of your hardware. Put all compressed archives (they are auto-uncompress archives) into the 'scilab-2.6' folder. Then uncompress them.

You should find (at least) inside your 'scilab-2.1' folder :

Scilab PPC (or fpu or nofpu)

scilab.star

scilab.quit

macros (folder)

RebuildLibs (folder)

demos (folder)

man (folder)

and if you want to be complete : tests (folder) docs (folder)

Please verify that all macros sub-directories are correctly uncompressed. Scilab needs them.

Since the b7 version, you first need to rebuild the libs associated with the macros. This is needed to be sure that the pre-compiled libs will fit to your particular Scilab version (data alignment especially). Before that the startup procedure of scilab will return an error. You just need to type (after the prompt '-->'):

exec('/RebuildLibs/RebuildAll.sci')

. It should take about 15 minutes on a PowerMac.