eriqande / sisg-mcmc-opengl-computer-demos

C code for Eric Anderson's MCMC simulations/visualizations that he uses in the SISG course

sisg-mcmc-opengl-computer-demos

C code for Eric Anderson's MCMC simulations/visualizations that he uses in the SISG course

To compile this up, I have used autotools, but I haven't successfully gotten it to make dist or make distcheck. So, I just committed the ./configure and other stuff and so you ought to be able to compile all this stuff like as shown below.

I'm a total noob with autotools. If anyone know how to do this correctly, then by all means please fork it, fix it and send me a pull request.

Note that you must configure with the --without-x option on a Mac.

The setup below creates a directory called ~/Library/gfmcmc where the programs look for the GFMCMC "views" files.

# simple commands to get and compile on a mac
git clone https://github.com/eriqande/sisg-mcmc-opengl-computer-demos.git
cd sisg-mcmc-opengl-computer-demos
git submodule init
git submodule update
mkdir -p ~/Library/gfmcmc
cp ./MCMC_Demos/* ~/Library/gfmcmc/
./configure --bindir=$(pwd)/MCMC_Demos --without-x  # --without-x is for Macs.  Leave that off for Linux
make
make install

That will put all the program binaries into the directory MCMC_Demos. This then should be a directory with all the programs and data files that are needed to run the demos. The Views files necessary will have been put into ~/Library/gfmcmc

Further instructions on how to use the compiled programs in the MCMC demonstrations done during the lecture series can be found in this video on youtube: https://youtu.be/a8gjem86Uf4. Note that there was an issue in getting RunNewHybs.sh to work, but I believe that has been fixed in a recent push to GitHub. (All that was required was changing the program name within to ./newhybs.

Note that I have gotten this to compile on macs pretty easily. But haven't yet successfully compiled it on Linux.

A note on later Mac OSes

Hey y'all! I am still running OS 10.14 or so. Phu Van from Twinstrand in Seattle noted that some additional steps were required to get this to compile on OS 11.5. He says:

I found that you may get a compilation error due to C99 error checking (in OSX 11.5 and possibly earlier versions as well, depending on your particular compiler setup). If you get this error, the solution is to run:

export CFLAGS="-Wno-implicit-function-declaration"

before running the ./configure step, then recompile.

Many thanks to Phu for that!