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MacOS users can either compile the UNIX
source code
(see Compiling from UNIX source)
or install the contributed Asymptote
binary available at
http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/X/Applications/Publishing/asymptote/
Because these preconfigured binary distributions have
strict architecture and library dependencies that many installations do
not satisfy, we recommend installing Asymptote
directly from the
official source:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120000
Note that many MacOS X (and FreeBSD) systems inexplicably ship with an extremely
old GNU readline
version (4.1, dated 21 March 2000).
For full interactive functionality, readline
version 4.2 or later
(16 April 2001) is required.