Published January 7, 2026 | Version 5.8.3beta12
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dwcaress/MB-System: 5.8.3beta12

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
  • 2. Google
  • 3. MBARI
  • 4. University Algarve
  • 5. MARUM @ University of Bremen
  • 6. @CeruleanSonar

Description

CMake build system: Extended to handle complications of MacOs Tahoe. Building the graphical tools in MB-System on MacOs has been complicated for a number of years because of the requirement for X11/Motif and also, for programs mbgrdviz, mbeditviz, and mbnavadjust, OpenGL and GLX. For MacOs versions Sequoia (15) and earlier, the only way to successfully build and run MB-System has been to install all of the prerequisite packages using the MacPorts package manager. For reasons that have never been understood, the MB-System graphical programs failed to run correctly when built with prerequisites installed through the alternative package managers Homebrew and Fink. This situation changes with MacOs Tahoe because now the MB-System graphical programs fail when prerequisites are installed through MacPorts, but succeed when the prerequisites are installed through Homebrew. This update to the build system handles the differences between the two MacOs scenarios (before Tahoe vs Tahoe or later). The installation documentation on the MB-System website will be updated to reflect the necessity of using Homebrew for installations on MacOs Tahoe. A significant issue with all X11 programs running on MacOs Tahoe so far is that when windows are resized, the GUI elements are not refreshed properly, and parts of the GUI wind up overwritten in solid black. Hopefully this will be fixed in a new version of the X11 server XQuartz. In the meantime, minimizing the program window using the middle (yellow) button on the upper left of the window (or the command-M shortcut), and then restoring that window by clicking on it's icon in the dock will properly refresh the GUI graphics.

Program mbgrd2gltf: Continued updates to this tool for translating gridded topography to Graphics Library Transmission Format (GLTF) files that can be visualized by GLTF viewers.

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dwcaress/MB-System-5.8.3beta12.zip

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Repository URL
https://github.com/dwcaress/MB-System