Compiling and using master on macOS

[racoon]

On 2020-07-08 08:28, Stephan Witt wrote:
> Am 07.07.2020 um 07:35 schrieb Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>:
>>
>> On 2020-07-07 07:30, Daniel wrote:
>>> 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 That seems a bit outdated.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 Yes, it’s outdated.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
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I am using git to download the lyx source and qt installer. But the steps should be the same except for the unpacking and setting my own directories, right?
>>> Also what does
>>> osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display notification "LyX is great stuff"'
>>> do? It looks strange.
>>> Daniel
>>
>> Okay, I guess it can't be the same because there is a specific LyX version mentioned (2.3.4.3). What would I use if I want to compile from git (master)?
>
> Yes, that’s true - this is the build from the shipped tar file for 2.3.4.3. But it works for git clones too.
>
> The difference to master is the name of the directory and this is your choice. I’m using „lyx“ for it. I have another git clone for stable named „lyx-2.3.x“.
>
> The resulting applications are placed in lyx-build and named according to the AC_INIT macro in configure.ac (e.g. LyX,2.4.0dev => LyX-2.4.0dev.app).
>
> In case you want to do the single steps w/o the build script you may try the following:
>
> 1. create a dedicated build dir - e.g. lyx-build/master
>
> 2. create or update the configure script - run autogen.sh in your git checkout (in place)

In this step I get:

% sh autogen.sh
: command not found
: command not found
: command not found:
'utogen.sh: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `in
'utogen.sh: line 18: `case $automake_version in

I guess it does not fails for some reason?

Daniel