Getting Fit2Tcx Working on Mac OS X (10.9.x)

Andreas Diesner’s #spiffy Fit2Tcx command-line utility is a lightweight way to convert Garmin/ANT FIT files to TCX for further processing.

On a linux system, installing it is as simple as:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andreas-diesner/garminplugin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fit2tcx

On a Mac OS X system, you’ll need to first grab the tinyxml package from homebrew:

brew install tinyxml

to install the necessary support library.

After a git clone of the Fit2Tcx repository, change the

DFLAGS +=  -s  $(CREATE_LIB) $(CREATE_DEF)

line in Makefile.in to

DFLAGS +=  $(CREATE_LIB) $(CREATE_DEF)

and then do the typical ./configure && make (there is no test target).

You’ll now have a relatively small fit2tcx binary that you can move to /usr/local/bin or wherever you like command-line utilities to be put.

You can also grab the pre-compiled binary (built on OS X 10.9.2 with “latest” Xcode).