Unix Compatibility Frameworks

Frameworks of various Unix image format and GIS libraries. All frameworks are built for Tiger and Leopard, except as noted. Dependencies on other frameworks are listed in {}.

temporarily unavailable - see individual downloads below

• SQLite3 framework v3.5.9-2 [1.5 MB] {no dependencies}
• Framework build script [6 KB]

• FFTW3 framework v3.1.2-3a [1.7 MB] {no dependencies}
• Framework build script [6 KB]

• FreeType framework v2.3.5-3 [1.7 MB] {no dependencies}
• Framework build script [4.4 KB]

• UnixImageIO framework v1.0.24 [4.3 MB] {no dependencies}
• UnixImageIO Xcode project [59 KB]

The UnixImageIO framework. Common graphics format libraries in a single framework. Image libraries included:

• GIF v4.1.4
• JPEG 6b
• PNG v1.2.29
• TIFF v4.0.0 SVN
• JasPer v1.900.1 UUID

• To be updated for Leopard.

Branch of ImageMagick 5.5 designed for API stability.

I might not update it for Leopard, and instead build it into software as needed (MapServer and PHP in this case), as I did for GD and Xerces.

As mentioned on the PHP page, I never really liked PDFlib. There is a promising alternative, libHaru, that I've already built as an extension to PHP. Hopefully it'll work for MapServer also.

• PROJ framework v4.6.0-1 [3.7 MB] {no dependencies}
• Framework build script [8.8 KB]

• GEOS framework v3.0.0-2 [2.8 MB] {no dependencies}
• Framework build script [6.2 KB]

• GDAL framework v1.5.2-1 [38.8 MB] {requires UnixImageIO, GEOS 3, SQLite3 and PROJ frameworks}
• ECW plugin v1.5.0-2 [3.0 MB], for the GDAL 1.5 framework
• MrSID plugin v1.5.2-1 [2.7 MB], for the GDAL 1.5 framework
• rgdal 0.5.24-1 - R 2.6 package [4.4 MB]
• rgdal 0.5.25-1 - R 2.7 package [4.4 MB]

Includes Python GDAL library and tools. Extra plugins and R package are available as separate downloads above. On OSX Tiger, Python support requires Python 2.5 from python.org, and Numpy 1.x for Python 2.5. Python 2.5 and Numpy are included in OSX Leopard. R support requires the R 2.6 or 2.7 framework and application.

The frameworks will not be updated further for Panther. Some are not available for, and will not be updated for, Leopard. If you need up-to-date frameworks for Panther, 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 current downloads section above:

• SQLite3
• FFTW3
• FreeType
• PROJ
• GEOS

This framework has a framework build option in the source:

• GDAL

These frameworks are discontinued and should be built as static libraries, to be included as needed in other software:

• Xerces (this one is the only direct dependency of another framework)
• GD (used in MapServer and PHP)
• PDFlib (used in MapServer and PHP, other PDF option available)

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

• UnixImageIO (build script to be added, use Xcode project for now)
• GraphicsMagick (undecided)

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 (see also my notes about issues with the absence static libraries). 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.