Installing CERN ROOT on macOS Mojave 10.14.x

Credits

• Installing CERN ROOT (2017)
• ROOT @ CERN

ROOT

ROOT is very handy when trying to make plots and it is used by nuclear physicists, particle physicists and even some astronomers to store, view and report data.

Dependencies

Fist thing to do it to install ROOT is to get the proper dependencies. Dependencies are the underlying programs a computer needs for building new programs. One of the most important ones we will need to install ROOT is GCC (GNU Compiler Collection). As the name might imply GCC is the collection of programs which are used to make the C/C++, Objective-C, Fortan and other code compile so that it can be run on your computer. In order to install this and some other useful tools on macOS X you can use the Xcode command line tools. In order to install ROOT you don’t need the full version of Xcode, just a small portion of the tools which can be installed by opening a terminal and typing:

xcode-select --install