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 {}.

• FFTW3 framework v3.1.3-1 [1.6 MB] {no dependencies}
• Framework build script [6 KB]

• FreeType framework v2.3.9-1 [1.7 MB] {no dependencies}
• Framework build script [4.4 KB]

• UnixImageIO framework v1.0.30 [2.7 MB] {no dependencies}
• UnixImageIO build script [16 KB]

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

• GIF v4.1.6
• JPEG 6b
• PNG v1.2.35
• TIFF v4.0.0b3
• JasPer v1.900.1 UUID

• To be updated for Leopard.

Branch of ImageMagick 5.5 designed for API stability.

• PROJ framework v4.6.1-3 [3.8 MB] {no dependencies}
• Framework build script [8.8 KB]

• GEOS framework v3.1.1-2 [3.2 MB] {no dependencies}
• Framework build script [6.2 KB]

GEOS Python extension included.

• SQLite3 framework v3.6.15-1 [3.0 MB] {requires GEOS 3.1 and PROJ 4.6 frameworks}
• Framework build script for SQLite 3.6.11+ & Spatialite 2.3+ [13.9 KB]
• Framework build script for SQLite 3.6.11- & Spatialite 2.2 [6 KB]

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 v1.6.1-8 [43.3 MB] {requires UnixImageIO, GEOS 3.1, SQLite3 and PROJ 4.6 frameworks}
• ECW plugin v1.6.1-1 [2.9 MB]
• MrSID plugin v1.6.1-1 [2.9 MB]
• GRASS plugin is now a separate install, available with the GRASS installer.
• rgdal 0.6.8-2 - R 2.9 package [1.4 MB]
• rgdal 0.6.8-1 - R 2.8 package [1.4 MB] (last rgdal for R 2.8)

• GDAL framework v1.5.4-1 [39.2 MB] {requires UnixImageIO, GEOS 3, SQLite3 and PROJ 4.6 frameworks}
• ECW plugin v1.5.3-1 [3.0 MB]
• MrSID plugin v1.5.3-1 [2.7 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. Python 2.5 is included in OSX Leopard, but Python support will also install and work for the python.org Python on Leopard. The GDAL framework now includes its own Numpy. R support requires the R 2.7 or 2.8 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
• UnixImageIO

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:

• 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)

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.