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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/BSD/Applications/Publishing/asymptote/
However, instead of trying to install from these preconfigured binary distributions, which ave 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, a readline
version of at
least 4.2 or later (16 April 2001) is required.