Vagrant environment for testing polymake builds on osx

OSX vagrant boxes

• Required naming scheme for vagrant boxes: osx-10.
• The Vagrant file handles version numbers 10,11,12,13,14
• boxes must have command line tools preinstalled

vms created by Vagrantfile

• osx..plain: downlaod and compile all dependences for polymake
• osx..brew: resolve dependences with brew before compiling polymake
• osx..fink: resolve dependences with fink before compiling polymake (currently untested)
• osx..bundle: create a polymake binary bundle for the osx version

Get necessary packages

Place pkg files in data/pkg

• latex distribution: http://tug.org/cgi-bin/mactex-download/BasicTeX.pkg
• Xquartz (needed for fink installation) https://www.xquartz.org/ (extract pkg from dmg)
• Testing Jupyter notebooks: https://www.python.org/downloads/mac-osx/
• Java: Download from https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/, it is necessary to accept license agreement
• ccache, place tar.bz2 in data/pkg: https://www.samba.org/ftp/ccache/ccache-3.6.tar.bz2

Shared folders

Two folders are shared with the vm

• data as /data
• share as /share

the scripts install software into share to preserve it even if vm is recreated