SPM/Installation on Mac OS (PowerPC)

SPM12

SPM12 is not supported on Mac PowerPC.

SPM8

SPM8 is not officially supported on Mac PowerPC, as this platform is about to be phased out (see MATLAB Platform Roadmap). This means that precompiled MEX files (*.mexmac) are not included in the SPM distribution. It should however be relatively straightforward to compile them by yourself.

Installation

Download spm8.zip and its updates spm8_updates_rxxxx.zip in your home directory then type the following in a Terminal:

cd /Users/login
unzip spm8.zip
unzip -o spm8_updates_rxxxx.zip -d spm8

Start MATLAB and add SPM into your path, either using File > Set Path > Add Folder... or typing

addpath /Users/login/spm8

in MATLAB's workspace.

Compilation

You need to have Apple's development environment Xcode installed. It should be available on your Mac OS X installation DVD.

You also need to have the mex executable in your system path. To do so, type the following in a Terminal:

export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/MATLAB/bin

with the appropriate path where MATLAB is installed.

In a Terminal, from the src folder of your SPM8 installation, type:

cd /Users/login/spm8/src
make distclean
make && make install
make toolbox-distclean
make toolbox && make toolbox-install
make external-distclean
make external && make external-install

SPM5

Precompiled MEX files for Mac PowerPC (*.mexmac) are available in the latest update.

Installation

Download spm5.zip in your home directory then type the following in a Terminal:

cd /Users/login
unzip spm5.zip

Start MATLAB and add SPM into your path, either using File > Set Path > Add Folder... or typing

addpath /Users/login/spm5

in MATLAB's workspace.

Compilation

If you want to compile SPM5 MEX files by yourself, you need to have Xcode installed and mex in your system path (see SPM8 for details).

Then, in a Terminal, from the src folder of your SPM5 installation, type:

cd /Users/login/spm5/src
make distclean
make && make install

SPM2

Precompiled MEX files for Mac PowerPC (*.mexmac) are available in the latest update.

Compilation

NB. Some of the following commands require that you log in as root or use the "sudo" mode.

Assuming that your Matlab and SPM2 folders (say, "MATLAB" and "spm2") are in your Applications folder:

(1) make sure you use a version of gcc earlier than 3.3 (compiling spm2 with gcc3.3 fails when mex is invoked; there apparently is a conflict of library):

   (sudo) gcc_select 3

(2) put a symbolic link to the "mex" file found in MATLAB/bin into /usr/sbin/ (!!! not in usr/local/bin):

   (sudo) ln -s /.../Applications/MATLAB/bin/mex   /usr/sbin/mex

(3) recompile SPM2:

   cd /.../Applications/spm2
   make MAC

You should see something like the following lines:

   make all SUF=mexmac RANLIB="ranlib spm_vol_utils.mexmac.a"
   _________________________________________________
   Unix compile for MacOS X
   _________________________________________________
   mex -O -c spm_mapping.c
   mv spm_mapping.o spm_mapping.mexmac.o
   rm -f spm_vol_utils.mexmac.a
   ar rcv spm_vol_utils.mexmac.a utils_uchar.mexmac.o utils_short.mexmac.o
   utils_int.mexmac.o utils_schar.mexmac.o utils_ushort.mexmac.o 
   utils_uint.mexmac.o utils_float.mexmac.o utils_double.mexmac.o 
   utils_short_s.mexmac.o utils_int_s.mexmac.o utils_ushort_s.mexmac.o
   utils_uint_s.mexmac.o utils_float_s.mexmac.o utils_double_s.mexmac.o 
   spm_make_lookup.mexmac.o spm_getdata.mexmac.o spm_vol_access.mexmac.o 
   spm_mapping.mexmac.o 
   a - utils_uchar.mexmac.o
   a - utils_short.mexmac.o
   ... (a long long list of files)
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   FINISHED
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