Get Involved/development/Mac

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Installation using patched version of Qt and MacPorts

Install Macports
- Note: If you have an existing installation of MacPorts and installed ports that depend on Qt, see this mail.
Install git, if you don't have it yet:

sudo port install git

Get the ports tree for patched qt and frameworks:

# We assume you're doing this in your home directory
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/mkae/macstrop.git
# create index
cd macstrop
portindex

Register the new ports with Macports. To do so, edit ${prefix}/etc/macports/sources.conf, where prefix is the root path of your MacPorts installation (/opt/local by default). Add the following line above any other path specifications (thus making sure it will take precedence):

file:///Users/YourUserName/macstrop

It is recommended that you build the patched Qt before any frameworks, in order to make extra sure all dependencies are resolved, correctly:

sudo port install qt5-kde

You can now start building frameworks or applications (if already packaged), using e.g.

sudo port install kf5-parts
sudo port install kf5-kate
sudo port install kf5-frameworkintegration     # will get the most common frameworks in one go

Many ports have additional variants, such as "+docs" for handbooks / API documentation:

sudo port install kf5-kate +docs
port variants kf5-kate       # list available variants
port notes kf5-kate            # show any notes

Installation using Craft

Install Python 3
Install XCode (at least developper command-line tools suffice):

xcode-select --install

Install Craft

 curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KDE/craft/master/setup/CraftBootstrap.py -o setup.py && python3 setup.py --prefix ~/CraftRoot

Note: At the time of this writing, with a fresh installation of Python 3.7 or 3.8, this command will fail with "certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate". To fix this, run the following, once:

 "/Applications/Python [Version]/Install Certificates.command"

Using craft

Every time you want to use craft in a new shell, you need to set up the craft environment, first:

source ~/CraftRoot/craft/craftenv.sh

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

craft kate

Case sensitive filesystem considerations

When building craft packages on case-sensitive filesystem, you will see errors in packages referencing some of the KF5 libraries:

   fatal error: 'sonnet/highlighter.h' file not found

This is a known upstream issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419167

NOTE: The bug was closed due to a lack of information. If you run into this issue, please reopen it!

The workaround for now is either to create and mount a case-insensitive disk image for craft usage or to manually create symlinks as needed.