Comments on: Installing GLPK on a Mac

By: firdevs

firdevs — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:08:23 +0000

Hi, I olud not figure out the first (new) way so I tried older way you provided. I installed Xcode already but I still there is something wrong that it says:

No targets specified and no makefile found.

Any help will be appreciated, thank you!

By: Arnab

Arnab — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:35:31 +0000

@Crista: Sorry about that. I will find a way to not to spam you!

@Dave: Thanks! Just tried it through brew and it worked! I’ll add a big honking note on top of this post.

By: Dave Coleman

Dave Coleman — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:45:09 +0000

I began following these instructions but then realized I could install glpk with Homebrew https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

By: Crista Madan

Crista Madan — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:34:29 +0000

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By: Arnab

Arnab — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:54:55 +0000

Please follow the instructions step-by-step – you need to do a “sudo make install”, not “make install”.

By: rajath

rajath — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:11:36 +0000

hi Arnab,

I am able to run configure cmmnd bt still nt able to run Pulp/ GLPK prgms.

1)wen i run the prgm, it shows no glpk module.

2)also wen i run make command as instructed in Install file ,
i am getting error like

newstein$ make install
Making install in include
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am’.
test -z “/usr/local/include” || .././install-sh -c -d “/usr/local/include”
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ‘glpk.h’ ‘/usr/local/include/glpk.h’
install: /usr/local/include/glpk.h: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-includeHEADERS] Error 71
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

using ur cmmnds given above, their is no err , but prgms r nt executed…

kindly help…

My mac is v10.6.6
nd gplk i downloaded from

http://webscripts.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=27868&t=0&i=1

By: Arnab

Arnab — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:56:27 +0000

Hi Rajath,

Looks like the tar you downloaded is not good. Run this:
$> tar -tvf glpk-4.43.tar.gz

… and see if you see the “configure” file there.

If it’s not there you probably have a bad download – try downloading again.

Otherwise let me know more details about your setup (Mac OS version, GLPK version, where you downloaded from etc.)

By: rajath

rajath — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:51:49 +0000

hi, im getting this err in 3rd step

78-ca-39-b5-a4-c8:Downloads newstein$ ./configure –prefix=/usr/local
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

kindly help, im nw to dis

By: polyn

polyn — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:32:40 +0000

it’s working now..
xcode was missing. i thought i had it but since the last osx reinstall i havent had it..
thanks for your help

By: Arnab

Arnab — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:04:01 +0000

@polyn – sounds like you don’t have any developer tools installed on your Mac. What OS is it running (10.6 Snow Leopard)?

One way to get these tools installed is to get XCode. You can get it here: https://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html. You’ll need to register for an Apple Developer account – unless you already have one. Unless you want to pay them (and develop software for iOS/Mac) you can sign up for an Apple Dev account: http://developer.apple.com/programs/register

Once you install XCode you should have “make” installed. To check run “which make” on the Terminal. If you still don’t see it “echo $PATH” and paste it here.

Let us know how it goes.