[Mesa-users] Big Sur and MESA

[Jason Wright]

Success!  The new SDK worked great for me.

[image: Screen Shot 2020-11-18 at 8.20.46 PM.png]
And the first tutorial example worked flawlessly.

Thank you for your amazing support for this outstanding resource. I and my
future students thank you.

(And it looks like Big Sur is here to stay on my Mac!)

Jason

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 5:49 PM RICHARD H D TOWNSEND <
townsend at astro.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Hi Jason --
>
> I've created a version of the SDK that supports Big Sur; you can grab it
> from here.
>
>
> http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/resource/download/mesasdk/mesasdk-x86_64-macos-20.11.1.pkg
>
> Please let me know how you get on. If it works OK, then I'll post it as an
> official SDK release.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rich
>
>
> > On Nov 18, 2020, at 12:05 PM, mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org wrote:
> >
> > thanks. this is an mesasdk issue.
> >
> > fwiw, i installed big sur on a non-critical laptop
> > but have not yet attempted to build mesa as i get
> > other items straightened out. once a suitable mesasdk is
> > available, i can test it as well.
> >
> >
> > fxt
> >
> >
> > p.s. - always include mesa-users on all replies.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Nov 18, 2020, at 10:46 AM, Jason Wright <astrowright at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sadly, I cannot even attempt to install the MESA SDK on Big Sur:
> >>
> >> <Screen Shot 2020-11-18 at 12.43.19 PM.png>
> >>
> >> Let me know if there is a command-line driven way to generate the log
> file you need, or if there is anything else I can do to be the guinea pig
> here.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Jason
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:33 PM Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com> wrote:
> >> hi jason,
> >>
> >> please send the build.log file when attempting to build mesa on big sur.
> >>
> >> on the education side of things,
> >>
> >> take a peek at conny aert's course
> >>
> https://fys.kuleuven.be/ster/education/sse/course-stellar-structure-and-evolution
> >> with labs designed by may gade pedersen.
> >>
> >> summer school material can also be useful, if even just for ideas:
> >> http://cococubed.asu.edu/mesa_market/education.html
> >>
> >> depending what you have in mind, mesa-web has been used in several
> courses:
> >> http://mesa-web.asu.edu
> >>
> >> fxt
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Nov 18, 2020, at 10:24 AM, Jason Wright via Mesa-users <
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi, all.
> >> >
> >> > I am teaching stellar structure and evolution this spring, and would
> like to include more MESA in my course.  I have downloaded Ed Brown's notes
> and I'm using them to construct exercises for the students—if you know of
> other resources I should be using, please let me know.
> >> >
> >> > More critically, I recently (and perhaps foolishly) upgraded my Mac
> to 11.0.1 (Big Sur) and have discovered (to no one's surprise, I'm sure)
> that MESA does not run on it.
> >> >
> >> > This will make it challenging for me to develop the class and, if
> MESA does not run on Big Sur by Spring, to teach it.
> >> >
> >> > My question is: should I downgrade back to OS 10.15 so that I can use
> MESA for the class, or is it reasonable to expect that the tools I need to
> run MESA will be available for 11.0.1 sometime in the next 2 months or so?
> >> >
> >> > Cheers and thanks,
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> >                                                 -
> >> > ---------------
> >> > Jason T Wright
> >> > Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics
> >> > Director, Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center
> >> > Acting Director, Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds
> >> > NEID Instrument Team Project Scientist
> >> > he/him/his
> >> > https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/
> >> > @Astro_Wright
> >> >
> >> > _______________________________________________
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>                                                 -
> >> ---------------
> >> Jason T Wright
> >> Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics
> >> Director, Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center
> >> Acting Director, Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds
> >> NEID Instrument Team Project Scientist
> >> he/him/his
> >> https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/
> >> @Astro_Wright
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org
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>
>

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Jason T Wright
Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Director, Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center
Acting Director, Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds
NEID Instrument Team Project Scientist <http://neid.psu.edu/>
he/him/his
*https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/ <https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/>*
@Astro_Wright

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