Unix Compatibility Frameworks

Mac OS X frameworks of various Unix image format and GIS libraries. All frameworks are built for Leopard and Snow Leopard, except as noted. Dependencies on other frameworks are listed in {}. For older systems, see the download archive.

• FreeType framework v2.3.12-1 [1.7 MiB] {no dependencies}

• cairo framework v1.8.10-1 [6.4 MiB] {requires FreeType & UnixImageIO 1.2 frameworks}

Only the standard surface and font backends are included, that is: image, PDF, SVG and PS, and FreeType fonts. There were problems with Quartz tests, and I figure if you're programming to use Quartz you might as well program it directly with OSX APIs.

• GSL framework v1.13-1 [3.9 MiB] {no dependencies}

• GDAL 1.7 Complete [62.2 MiB]
• GDAL 1.6 Complete [58.3 MiB]

This is a convenience installer that includes all the current versions of the frameworks below. There is no need to download and install these frameworks individually if this package is installed. The GDAL plugins and other extras are not included.

Note about updates: after initial installation, when an framework is updated, you may want to download the individual installer to save on download time, unless it's the GDAL framework that is updated (because that's 80% of this package) or many frameworks change.

• UnixImageIO framework v1.2.1 [4.7 MiB] {requires PROJ framework}
• UnixImageIO framework v1.1.0a [4.2 MiB] {requires PROJ framework}

The UnixImageIO framework. Common graphics format libraries in a single framework. Image libraries included: GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GeoTIFF, JasPer UUID.

• PROJ framework v4.7.0-2 [3.7 MiB] {no dependencies}

• GEOS framework v3.2.0-1 [3.2 MiB] {no dependencies}

GEOS Python extension included.

• SQLite3 framework v3.6.23-1 [3.1 MiB] (includes Spatialite 2.4.0rc2) {requires GEOS and PROJ frameworks}
• Spatialite Tools v2.3.1 [220 KiB]

Includes the FTS3 search, ICU unicode, R-Tree indexing and Spatialite extensions, and Proxy Locking, Column Metadata and Memory Management features are enabled. Pysqlite2 Python extension included.

• GDAL framework v1.7.1-1 [47.6 MiB] {requires UnixImageIO 1.2, GEOS, SQLite3 and PROJ frameworks}
• ECW plugin v1.7.1-1 [3.0 MiB] (for any GDAL 1.7.x version)
• MrSID plugin v1.7.1-1 [4.8 MiB] (for any GDAL 1.7.x version)
• rgdal 0.6.24-1 - R 2.10 package [1.5 MiB] (for any GDAL 1.7.x version)

• GDAL framework v1.6.3-1 [44.9 MiB] {requires UnixImageIO 1.1, GEOS, SQLite3 and PROJ frameworks}
• ECW plugin v1.6.2-1 [2.9 MiB] (for any GDAL 1.6.x version)
• MrSID plugin v1.6.1-1 [2.9 MiB] (for any GDAL 1.6.x version)
• GRASS plugin is now a separate install, available with the GRASS installer.
• rgdal 0.6.22-1 - R 2.10 package [1.5 MiB] (for any GDAL 1.6.x version)
• rgdal 0.6.18-1 - R 2.9 package [1.4 MiB] (for any GDAL 1.6.x version)

Includes Python GDAL library and tools. Extra plugins and R package are available as separate downloads above. The GDAL Python libraries and scripts use the system Python, but Python support will also install and work for the python.org Python (2.5 on Leopard, 2.6 on Snow). The GDAL framework includes its own Numpy. R support requires the R framework and application.

The frameworks will not be updated further for Panther or Tiger. Some are not available for, and will not be updated for, Leopard. If you need up-to-date frameworks for Panther or Tiger, use the build scripts above (or build standard libraries from source for the discontinued frameworks, like Xerces).

These frameworks have build scripts available in the developer section below:

• SQLite3
• FreeType
• PROJ
• GEOS
• UnixImageIO
• GSL

This framework has a framework build option in the source:

• GDAL

These frameworks are discontinued and will be built as static libraries (or not used at all), to be included as needed in other software:

• FFTW3 (used in GRASS only)
• Xerces (used in GDAL only)
• GD (used in MapServer and PHP, small enough to be static)
• PDFlib (used in MapServer and PHP, other PDF option available) not used

These frameworks are in limbo (undecided or to be updated):

• GraphicsMagick (undecided)

• FreeType framework build script [4.4 KiB]
• GSL framework build script [5.8 KiB]
• UnixImageIO framework build script [16 KiB]
• PROJ framework build script [8.8 KiB]
• GEOS framework build script [6.0 KiB]
• SQLite framework build script for SQLite 3.6.11+ & Spatialite 2.3+ [44 KiB]
• SQLite framework build script for SQLite 3.6.11- & Spatialite 2.2 [6 KiB]

These frameworks were designed to be easy to use as both normal frameworks for OS X apps, and as normal Unix libraries. This means that most of the time, configure scripts should need little or no changes to use these frameworks. Follow normal framework procedures for including them in Xcode projects, or for using them as frameworks in other software. All of these have been checked for framework-style includes internally or between them, such as #include <PROJ/projects.h> - many were OK as is, some needed some adjustments.

In a Unix configure-make-install project, they can be used as is, without messing around with patching configure. There is a symlink folder at the top level that acts as a mini unix library environment, called 'unix'. ie in GDAL it would be /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/unix. This has the usual assortment of bin/include/lib subfolders, and symlinks with a normal lib*.dylib style library name. You would use this 'unix' folder in configure --with options just like /usr/local. ie: --with-proj=/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/unix, or --with-gdal=/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/unix/bin/gdal-config.