Hello David, Thanks for looking into this detail. Is this something that you might want me to try and see if the installation works? Cheers, Francis ------------------ Francis Poulin Associate Professor Department of Applied Mathematics University of Waterloo email: fpoulin@uwaterloo.ca Web: https://uwaterloo.ca/poulin-research-group/ Telephone: +1 519 888 4567 x32637 ________________________________ From: firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] on behalf of David Ham [David.Ham@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 5:28 AM To: firedrake Subject: Re: [firedrake] Firedrake and xcode Hi Francis, We're basically installing xcode in order to have the compilers. I wasn't aware until this week that you could get the compilers by just installing the much smaller xcode command line tools. It's entirely possible that this is sufficient, but we (or someone) would need to test this. I think one just needs to comment out lines 955 to 958 of firedrake-install and then try running it on a clean Mac. Regards, David On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 at 16:42 Francis Poulin <fpoulin@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:fpoulin@uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: Hello, I have had several students install Firedrake on a MacMini and each time the full version of Xcode needed to be installed. Is this necessarily the case? If yes, what in particular is needed? Francis ------------------ Francis Poulin Associate Professor Department of Applied Mathematics University of Waterloo email: fpoulin@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:fpoulin@uwaterloo.ca> Web: https://uwaterloo.ca/poulin-research-group/ Telephone: +1 519 888 4567 x32637<tel:(519)%20888-4567> -- Dr David Ham Department of Mathematics Imperial College London