
When Apple shifted to Unix at the turn of the century, it essentially built a Unix operating system called Darwin.

This does NOT require the step of having to choose the terminal to run it with. $ osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder”‘ -e ‘make new alias to file (posix file “/opt/local/bin/gnumeric-1.12.20”) at desktop’ -e ‘end tell’ Now when you double-click on this icon it should run Gnumeric for you without having to enter the terminal.Īlternately, you can create an alias instead of a link, by invoking: Select the option to choose the program, then select the Terminal as the program to run it with (under /Applications/Utilities/Terminal). Navigate to your Applications folder via the Finder and you should see a blank icon named “Gnumeric”.ĭouble click on the icon, and you should be prompted with a dialog asking you to choose an application to run the program with. $ ln -s /opt/local/bin/gnumeric /Applications/Gnumeric OK, now if it’s working, here’s a quick-and-dirty way to create a link so that you can open it via an icon. you can check to see if you have the Xcode command line tools by opening a terminal, and invoking the command:Īfter a brief pause, you should see the following:

Installing and using MacPorts is beyond the scope of this article, but it’s not too hard to do – just make sure you have the latest (or most appropriate) version of Xcode, including the command-line tools. I was really glad to see this as a starting place, as it has some info about how to use flags when porting software to compile in Quartz instead of X11 (thus, to avoid the nasty X11 interface and stay more over-all “Mac-Looking”)įollowing the directions on the site did not work for me, however - so here’s an update to help people with more modern Mac OS versions (I did this under Mac OS 10.9.5 Mavericks with MacPorts 2.3.3). There IS a how-to on how to compile Gnumeric using MacPorts, though! However, it’s a little outdated:

But I like Gnumeric quite a bit and there’s never been an installer package for a native port of Gnumeric for Mac OS as far as I know. I like to run several operating systems, and one of my favorite is Mac OS. So, if you know anything about *NIX spreadsheet programs, or you are a hardcore statistics nerd, you are probably familiar with Gnumeric.
