Document macOS commands to install dependencies #2426
Description
This is not really essential, but would be nice to have so not everyone has to figure this out by themselves.
The README includes the Ubuntu command
apt install libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev make autoconf libtool-bin
I propose copying this to the beginning of https://flintlib.org/doc/building.html, and adding e.g.
brew install gmp mpfr autoconf libtool
for macOS, along with a link to https://brew.sh/ there.
This is not yet the complete setup, because I also got make and a compiler somewhere (and not by brew install make). Perhaps it was xcode-select –-install.
When using brew I also had to add
--with-gmp-include=/opt/homebrew/include --with-gmp-lib=/opt/homebrew/lib --with-mpfr-include=/opt/homebrew/include --with-mpfr-lib=/opt/homebrew/lib
to the ./configure flags for FLINT. I am no macOS expert, hence this issue and not yet a PR.