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Issues installing Vienna RNA on MacOS

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?

mac rna software error

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).

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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

Thanks a lot RamRS! The bioconda package fixed the issue

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