macOS

You need to have the current Xcode command line utilities installed: runxcode-select --install in the terminal. You will need to rerun this terminal command after each macOS update, otherwise you may run into errors involving missing libraries or headers.

The dependent libraries are now built withBinaryBuilder and will be automatically downloaded. This is the preferred way to build Julia source. In case you want to build them all on your own, you will need a 64-bit gfortran to compile Julia dependencies.

brew install gcc

If you have setLD_LIBRARY_PATH orDYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in your.bashrc or equivalent, Julia may be unable to find various libraries that come bundled with it. These environment variables need to be unset for Julia to work.