EigenD on MacOS Sonoma?

Hi @thetechnobear and others

I have a Sonoma install on my M2 Macbook Pro

I thought I might dust off the Eigenharp Tau and see if I can reignite my interest in it

I’ve read through this: How to install and run EigenD in 2023+ [wiki]

From that wiki page I understood that the python2.7 on my mac would be enough. However this Mac does not seem to have come with such an installation

$ python -V
Python 3.12.5

I have installed EigenD-gpl-2.2.0-community-mac-arm and when I run this it complains of a missing /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework or the /Library equivalent

I’ve used pyenv to install python2.7. I symlinked such that I now have:

$ ls /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/versions/
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  staff    6 28 Aug 14:25 2.7 -> 2.7.18
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 rich  staff  192 28 Aug 14:31 2.7.18

After this starting eigend gives:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python' (no such file)

(among other places it tried)

After a bit of trial and error I discovered I needed to link like this inside the version:


ln -s lib/libpython2.7.dylib Python

Now starting me gives
ImportError: No module named site

Before carrying on further I’d just check that I’m going about this the right way :slight_smile:

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