Delphes Installation on Mac OS Ventura 13.1

[Torrey Saxton]

Dear Experts,

I had run into issues installing Delphes on Mac Ventura 13.1. I had tried through 2 ways:

1) MadGraph command install Delphes
2) Using wget, and installing directly through untarring the folder and running the make file.

Both methods resulted in an error saying that Delphes could only be used on Mac OSX 10.7 or later.

I followed a fix for 12.1 at https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/delphes/ticket/1542, but it did not quite work for me.

A fix I found but am unsure will work for the future is:

/path/to/delphes_directory/doc/Makefile.arch

in which the lines :

ifeq ($(PLATFORM),macosx)
MACOSX_MINOR := $(shell sw_vers | sed -n 's/ProductVersion://p' | cut -d . -f 2)
ifeq ($(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET),)
MACOSXTARGET := 10.$(MACOSX_MINOR)
else
MACOSXTARGET := $(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET)
endif
endif

should be replaced by,

ifeq ($(PLATFORM),macosx)
ROOTLIBDIR := $(shell $(RC) --libdir)
MACOSX_MAJOR := $(strip $(shell sw_vers | sed -n 's/ProductVersion://p'))
MACOSX_MINOR := $(strip $(shell sw_vers | sed -n 's/ProductVersion://p' | cut -d . -f 2))
ifeq ($(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET),)
MACOSXTARGET := $(MACOSX_MAJOR).$(MACOSX_MINOR)
else
MACOSXTARGET := $(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET)
endif
endif

This installed Delphes with warnings generated, but other than that seems to have worked.

Thank you for your time.

[Pavel Demin]

Thank you for sharing this information.

I think a similar fix is already in the git repository. This version can be downloaded from the following link:

​​​​​​​​https://github.com/delphes/delphes/archive/master.zip