Here, something goes wrong with library paths, so that NEST apparently looks for the wrong versions of GSL and readline. I won't have time to attend more to this today. The only remaining suggestion is to try the "other" way, i.e., explicitly specifying a installation directory. Also, it looks like you might be building and running from your home directory. I'd suggest to build in a separate directory. Delete everything in that build directory before making new attempts to be sure no old information is left in CMake caches.

Best,

Hans Ekkehard

Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser

Head, Department of Data Science

Faculty of Science and Technology

Norwegian University of Life Sciences

PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway

Phone +47 6723 1560

Email hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no

Home http://arken.nmbu.no/~plesser

On 17/11/2021, 12:12, "Julien Ballbé" <julien.ballbe@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I did as you suggested and ran

cmake /Users/julienballbe/Downloads/nest-simulator-master

It went well for the cmake, make and make install commands but when I ran the make installcheck I got the following message (I attach the full log output):

(nest-simulator-dev) julienballbe@MacBook-Pro-de-Julien ~ % make installcheck

Executing NEST's testsuite...

dyld[12978]: Library not loaded: @rpath/libgsl.25.dylib

Referenced from: /Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/sli

Reason: tried: '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../lib/nest/libgsl.25.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../../lib/nest/libgsl.25.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../../../nest/libgsl.25.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../lib/nest/libgsl.25.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../../lib/nest/libgsl.25.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../../../nest/libgsl.25.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libgsl.25.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libgsl.25.dylib' (no such file)

2021-11-17 11:34:30.712 defaults[12980:953560]

The domain/default pair of (com.apple.CrashReporter, DialogType) does not exist

================================================================================

NEST testsuite

Date: Mer 17 nov 2021 10:34:30 UTC

Sysinfo: Darwin 21.0.1 arm64

dyld[12984]: Library not loaded: @rpath/libgsl.25.dylib

Referenced from: /Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/sli

NEST executable .... nest_serial (version )

PREFIX ............. /Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev

Python executable .. /Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/python3.9 (version 3.9.7)

PYTHONPATH ......... /Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages

Pytest version ..... 6.2.5

timeout ..... 120 s

Running MPI tests .. no (compiled without MPI support)

TEST_BASEDIR ....... /Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/share/nest/testsuite

REPORTDIR .......... /Users/julienballbe/reports

PATH ............... /Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin

/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin

/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/condabin

/usr/local/bin

/usr/bin

/bin

/usr/sbin

/sbin

================================================================================

dyld[12998]: Library not loaded: @rpath/libreadline.8.dylib

Referenced from: /Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/nest

Reason: tried: '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../lib/nest/libreadline.8.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../../lib/nest/libreadline.8.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../../../nest/libreadline.8.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../lib/nest/libreadline.8.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../../lib/nest/libreadline.8.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/../../../nest/libreadline.8.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libreadline.8.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libreadline.8.dylib' (no such file)

Phase 1: Testing if SLI can execute scripts and report errors

-------------------------------------------------------------

Running test 'selftests/test_pass.sli'... Failed: unexpected exit code 134

==================================================

Following is the full output of the test:

==================================================

dyld[13021]: Library not loaded: @rpath/libgsl.25.dylib

Referenced from: /Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/bin/sli

==================================================

***

*** An unexpected exit code usually hints at a bug in the test suite!

/Users/julienballbe/miniforge3/envs/nest-simulator-dev/share/nest/testsuite/run_test.sh: line 169: ask_results: command not found

make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/installcheck] Error 2

make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/installcheck.dir/all] Error 2

make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/installcheck.dir/rule] Error 2

Is that normal?

Thank you for your help,

Best,

Julien

Le mer. 17 nov. 2021 à 11:16, Hans Ekkehard Plesser <hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no> a écrit :

Hi,

It depends on where you want NEST installed. Personally, I prefer to place NEST in a directory of its own, but that is mainly because as a developer I usually have a number of NEST builds around. Thus, I would use something like

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/Users/julienballbe/NEST /Users/julienballbe/Downloads/nest-simulator-master

On the other hand, you can also choose to install NEST right with your other Python packages using just

cmake /Users/julienballbe/Downloads/nest-simulator-master

Then, NEST will be installed in the site-packages part of your nest-simulator-dev conda environment. This makes it even easier for Python to find the nest Python module.

Best,

Hans Ekkehard

--

Prof. Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser

Head, Department of Data Science

Faculty of Science and Technology

Norwegian University of Life Sciences

PO Box 5003, 1432 Aas, Norway

Phone +47 6723 1560

Email hans.ekkehard.plesser@nmbu.no

Home http://arken.nmbu.no/~plesser

On 17/11/2021, 11:09, "Julien Ballbé" <julien.ballbe@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Thank you for all your responses. I attached the full log file.

I found the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX instruction on the nest installation guidelines (https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/v3.1/installation/mac_install.html) in the building NEST section.

Indeed, I did not see the space in the command line. That should fix it, but before I do anything, would you recommend that :

1) I create a build directory NEST and run

(nest-simulator-dev) julienballbe@MacBook-Pro-de-Julien ~ % cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/Users/julienballbe/NEST /Users/julienballbe/Downloads/nest-simulator-master

or

2) use as Robin suggested 'cmake path/to/src', in which case the command line will be, I supposed,

cmake path/to/src /Users/julienballbe/Downloads/nest-simulator-master ?

Thank you for your help!

Best,

Julien

Le mer. 17 nov. 2021 à 10:04, Robin Gilbert De Schepper <robingilbert.deschepper@unipv.it> a écrit :

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