SciPDL v2.088

SciPDL v2.088 created Apr 25th, 2024.

(ANZAC day edition!)

SciPDL is the DMG installer of 'PDL + pgplot + kitchen sink' for MacOS. DMGs are provided for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, simply double click the .dmg file and installation is Mac style, simply a matter of drag and drop in to the Applications folder. Everything in PDL is built statically so you should not need anything else - not even a compiler - except you will need an X11 server (I recommend https://www.xquartz.org/) if you want to use pgplot graphics.

SciPDL-v2.088-arm64.dmg
SciPDL-v2.088-intel.dmg

See the README file for usage and contents.

This was built on macOS Monterey and seems to work at least as far as MacOS Sonoma (though not exhaustive testing on both architectures).

Releases are now signed and notarised the files with my (paid!) Apple Developer ID so you won't have to do tricks to allow PDL to run.

Update Jan 3rd, 2025.

I recompiled v2.088 on Sonoma:

SciPDL-v2.088-arm64 (Sonoma).dmg
SciPDL-v2.088-intel (Sonoma).dmg

These use gcc/gfortran 14.2

I also changed the signing of the perl binary to allow dynamic loading of a user's compiled modules. Previously this failed with an extremely cryptic error on some machines. So installing things on top of SciPDL withcpan -iwill now work as well as manual installation. But see this issue for caveats.