Compiling and using master on macOS

Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net
Wed Jul 8 06:31:27 UTC 2020


Am 08.07.2020 um 08:21 schrieb Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>:
> 
> On 2020-07-07 00:24, Stephan Witt wrote:
>> Am 06.07.2020 um 09:59 schrieb Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>:
>>> 
>>> On 2020-03-15 21:37, Stephan Witt wrote:
>>>> Am 15.03.2020 um 17:16 schrieb Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am about to try compiling and using master on macOS. I just has a look at INSTALL.MacOSX. It mentions Qt version 4. That seems a bit outdated. But I guess that I am looking at the latest guide to compile on macOS, right?
>>>> Yes, it’s outdated. It should work with Qt4 - but Qt4 cannot be used on recent macOS.
>>>> Basically I’m using the script LyX-Mac-binary-release.sh in development folder. That’s much easier than other options, IMO.
>>>> First step is to install Xcode and the automake and/or cmake utilities. This can be done with macports or homebrew. I’m using macports.
>>>> Second step is to get Qt5 - as source or binary distribution. I’m using the source tarball and build Qt5 myself.
>>>> Optional components are the spell checker and libmagic frameworks.
>>>> Finally I start development/LyX-Mac-binary-release.sh with
>>>> --enable-cxx11
>>>> --with-qt-dir=/path/to/qt5
>>>> Stephan
>>> 
>>> Thanks. Finally came around trying it on macOS. I take it one has to run the last command with sh, right? So, from the lyx directory (in the lyxgit directory) I execute
>>> 
>>> sh development/LyX-Mac-binary-release.sh --enable-cxx11 --with-qt-dir=/Users/<username>/Qt/5.9.9
>>> 
>>> (where I replace <username> by my macOS user name. Unfortunately, I get the following:
>>> 
>>> : command not found-binary-release.sh: line 2:
>>> : command not found-binary-release.sh: line 4:
>>> : command not found-binary-release.sh: line 9:
>>> : command not found-binary-release.sh: line 19:
>>> : command not found-binary-release.sh: line 23:
>>> : command not found-binary-release.sh: line 27:
>>> ': not a valid identifiery-release.sh: line 28: unset: `LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>> : command not found-binary-release.sh: line 29:
>>> : command not found-binary-release.sh: line 44:
>>> : command not found-binary-release.sh: line 49:
>>> development/LyX-Mac-binary-release.sh: line 53: syntax error near unexpected tok'n `in
>>> 'evelopment/LyX-Mac-binary-release.sh: line 53: `case "${QtVersion}:${QtAPI}" in
>>> 
>>> By the way, if finally successful, where will this put the LyX.app?
>>> 
>>> Daniel
>> I’ve made a protocol of the steps I took to build the package on a new system. See the attached log. Probably the crucial thing is the mklyx-2.3.4.3.sh script.
>> I’m used to configure and build LyX out of source. I have a working directory with one or more versions of LyX source code and a directory lyx-build for the results. For Qt I have a source directory and an install target in parallel, the build directory is in lyx-build.
>> $ ls /Users/Shared/LyX
>> lyx-2.3.4.3 (source)
>> lyx-2.3.5.2 (source)
>> lyx-build (directory)
>> qt-5.9.9-frameworks-cocoa-x86_64  (QTDIR for 5.9.9)
>> qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.9.9 (source)
>> The lyx-build contains the build directory, the installed package (LyX.app) and the resulting disk image.
>> $ ls /Users/Shared/LyX/
>> LyX-2.3.4.3+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg (disk image)
>> LyX-2.3.4.3.app (working app)
>> LyX-2.3.4.3.build (binaries)
>> LyX-2.3.5.2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg (disk image)
>> LyX-2.3.5.2.app (working app)
>> LyX-2.3.5.2.build (binaries)
>> qt-5.9.9-build-x86_64 (binaries)
>> The /bin/sh on a Mac is in fact a bash, IMO.
>> Stephan
> 
> By the way, it might be that I don't really understand how and where these commands are supposed to be called. But if I call
> 
> 
> cat mklyx-2.3.4.3.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> ARCH=x86_64
> SDK=10.14
> MacOsXTarget=10.12
> QtVersion=5.9.9
> QtAPI=-cocoa
> LyXVersion=lyx-2.3.4.3
> EnableCXX11="--enable-cxx11"
> 
> QtConfigureOptions="-debug-and-release" QtAPI=${QtAPI} QtVersion=${QtVersion} \
> QtSourceVersion="qt-everywhere-src-${QtVersion}" \
> PKG_CONFIG= \
> sh ${MKFLAGS} ${LyXVersion}/development/LyX-Mac-binary-release.sh \
> 	--with-sdkroot=${SDK} --with-macosx-target=${MacOsXTarget} --with-arch=${ARCH} \
> 	--with-qt-dir=/Users/Shared/LyX/qt-${QtVersion}-frameworks${QtAPI}-${ARCH} \
> 	--with-util-dir=/Users/Shared/LyX/utilities \
> 	${EnableCXX11} \
> 	"$@„

Yes, you have to create the file mklyx-2.3.4.3.sh with the given content.

I have to add an explicit note for it…

Stephan
 
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> I get
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> zsh: event not found: /bin/sh
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> Daniel
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