To install polymake 3.0r1 from source on Mac OS X using gcc 4.9.2 (this is within Sage), I had to apply a patch to get rid of all "-arch" flags; see https://github.com/mkoeppe/polymake/tree/sage-package This is to fix errors that can be seen on https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20892#comme...

This minimal tar ball is meant for packaging only (for distros where bliss or nauty comes from elsewhere). Just another quick note. The "minimal tarball" omits not only the nauty sources, but also polymake's interface to it. So this is probably something worth addressing when you prepare ...

It seems that you picked the "minimal" tar ball. Can you please confirm? Yes. The actual use of this install (in a standalone kind of way) is not supported. The reason is that it comes with neither bliss nor nauty. At least one of them is required. This minimal tar ball is meant for packa...

Thanks Benjamin.

Regarding bliss, you may want to mention in the wiki that polymake depends on Debian's patches to bliss.
(https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20901).

I believe I have nauty installed (via a Sage package). How do I make sure that polymake finds it?

We observed a strange error message from "show_unconfigured" in the Polymake installation made by our preliminary Sage package ( https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20892 ): polymake: ERROR: "/home/scratch/dimpase/sage/sage/local/lib/polymake/lib/polytope.so", line 1: Unrecognized c...

To install polymake 3.0r1 from source on Mac OS X using gcc 4.9.2 (this is within Sage), I had to apply a patch to get rid of all "-arch" flags; see https://github.com/mkoeppe/polymake/tree/sage-package This is to fix errors that can be seen on https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20892#commen...

I'm trying to install Polymake 3.0r1 from source on Mac OS X, following the instructions at https://polymake.org/doku.php/howto/mac_compiler I have Fink and the XCode command line tools installed. I started with the XCode compiler. It fails with a C++ error. Additional remark: Instructions how to in...