The program is in the directory: /usr/local/spim/bin/. For convenience to run the program, you can add the following line in your .tcshrc file:
set path=(/usr/local/spim/bin/ $path)After this, you can directly run the program by typing “xspim”.
Click the button “load” in xspim and then type the file name. Note: If your “xspim” doesn’t run in the directory where your assembly files is, you have to type the file name with its complete directory in order to load the file into Xspim.
Comments in SPIM begin with a sharp-sign: #
There is a SPIM program for Mac OS X at http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~spim/precompiled/MacOSX/
Using the graphical interface has to install X11 or XDarwin. X11 comes w/ Mac OS X 10.3. Mac OS X 10.2 users can also download X11 for free.
Installing the spim distribution for Mac OS X
Copy the spim folder to the "Applications" folder on your hard disk to install spim. You must copy it to the "Applications" folder. Other folders will not work.
To start spim by itself, open a Terminal window and type
/Applications/spim/bin/spimat the prompt.
To start the graphical user interface for spim (xspim), open up an XDarwin window and type
/Applications/spim/bin/xspimat the prompt (but read the "Using graphics with xspim for Mac OS X" section below, before you tell us that it doesn't work!)
Please note: Graphics are only available if you install XDarwin. This means that unless you install XDarwin and start xspim from an XDarwin login window, the graphical user interface will not work. XDarwin is available as a free download from the http://www.xdarwin.org website."