Guidelines and HOWTOs/Build from source/Mac

• Install Qt (use the official Qt installer, recommended version Qt >= 5.6)

• Install Python >= 3.5 (using the pkg installer from http://python.org)

• Install homebrew and get some basic dependencies (http://brew.sh/)

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install cmake wget p7zip gettext ninja

• Prepare some build directory in your home directory, here we assume:

mkdir ~/kf

• Switch to this build dir

cd ~/kf

• Get the unix3 branch of KDE emerge

git clone --branch unix3 git://anongit.kde.org/emerge.git

• Copy Mac OS X config template to right location, should be OK to use out of the box

mkdir etc
cp emerge/kdesettings.mac etc/kdesettings.ini

• Setup environment (path must contain your Qt install, here 5.7 default location and brew's gettext)

export PATH=/Users/cullmann/Qt5.7.0/5.7/clang_64/bin:/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.19.7/bin:$PATH
. emerge/kdeenv.sh

• In this shell, now emerge is usable, e.g. to build Kate with all dependencies:

emerge kate

• To create a app bundle (+ dmg file), you need to have the breeze-icons around:

emerge breeze-icons

• To do deploy all things, unfortunately at the moment you need a patched macdeployqt. Example scripty for kate can be found on kate.git/mac/emerge-deploy.sh