Compiling and using master on macOS

[Stephan Witt]

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 That seems a bit outdated.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 Yes, it’s outdated.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
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