Issues installing Vienna RNA on MacOS

Question

[emigc10]

I am trying to install ViennaRNA-2.4.14 in a Mac. I've followed the steps provided in the TBI documentation and configured it with the following command:

 ./configure --enable-universal-binary --disable-openmp

But when I try to compile the package using the command make I get the following error:

clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[3]: *** [RNAfold] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

I'm really lost here. Does anyone has any idea of how to solve this issue?

[GenoMax]

What version of macOS are you installing on? TBI documentation is not clear but if there is any 32-bit code in Vienna RNA it is not going to work on Catalina (v. 10.15).

Answer 1

[Ram]

genomax's comment explains the most probable cause of failure here. In any case, bioconda has a package for vienna, so that might be your best option - https://anaconda.org/bioconda/viennarna

[emigc10]

Thanks a lot RamRS! The bioconda package fixed the issue

[Ram]

Glad it helped. Please accept the answer to mark the question solved.