I have gotten NuPIC to install, and it passes 692 of the unit tests. Still have the failed test case I mentioned above for the nupic.bindings Python library, plus 17 failed test cases for NuPIC itself.
Rather than keep flooding this thread as I work through the issues, I think it might make better sense to start a wiki and improve on it over time. To that end, I have posted the instructions I’ve compiled thus far. @rhyolight do you mind turning that into a wiki?