How to get CRFSuite to work on Mac OS X?

Question

I am trying to get CRFSuite to work on Mac OS X. The author only has binaries for Windows and Linux, but does provide the source package. I am guessing I need to somehow compile the source into a Mac OS X executable? This I have no idea how to do. I did some research on this, but nothing actually works. I also asked a PhD student at the university specifically this problem--he told me it would be very difficult.

I have been able to get CRFSuite to work by using WineSkin, but that's a workaround and not a real solution.

Ideally when I open the Terminal I should be able to invoke CRFSuite by just typing "crfsuite" and not jumping through hoops to pipe commands to a WineSkin Windows Terminal.

Answer 1

It's easy with homebrew.

First go to homebrew website - here and install it. It is very simple.

Then do the following in Terminal:

brew tap brewsci/science
brew install crfsuite

If anything goes wrong, use

brew doctor

Once you are up and running, I find it a good idea to occasionally do the following to upgrade brew itself and the installed packages:

brew update
brew upgrade

There are lots of gret, up-to-date packages that are so easy to install using homebrew, I use the following:

ant
basex
cmake
coreutils
exiftool
exiv2
faac
ffmpeg
fontconfig
freetype
gawk
gd
gettext
ghostscript
gnu-sed
gnuplot
ilmbase
imagemagick
jasper
jbig2dec
jhead
jp2a
jpeg
lame
leptonica
libpng
libtiff
libtool
lighttpd
little-cms2
lua
lynx
mad
netpbm
opencv
openexr
openssl
p7zip
parallel
pcre
perlmagick
pipebench
pipemeter
pkg-config
platypus
proftpd
pv
qt
readline
redis
sleuthkit
sox
sqlite
sqlitebrowser
tag
tesseract
tree
wget
x264
xvid
xz

If you want to look for additional packages, just use:

brew search <search string>