So I've spent some time today with Guido on the challenges of building
Subsurface on a Mac from scratch. And to call the experience for him a disaster
would be putting it way too kindly.
I pushed a few changes that I hope will make this better but this will require
some more testing.
If you have a Mac and would like to help, the steps to do this are a bit
drastic because we need to make sure we have a somewhat consistent starting
point, but based on my attempts in a fresh OS X 10.10 VM I think this should
work.
So Guido, here is what I think you (and anyone else who wants to play along)
will have to do.
a) remove Qt 5 - regardless where it came from: official installer, built from
source, installed via MacPorts or Homebrew or whatever
b) uninstall Homebrew and all packages you have installed via Homebrew
c) remove the Subsurface-created folders under ~/src
OK, now you have a pretty clean and reproducible environment.
cd ~/src
git clone git://subsurface-divelog.org/subsurface
<git://subsurface-divelog.org/subsurface>
now read the instructions in subsurface/INSTALL - or simply follow along here:
1) Install Homebrew
$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
2) Install needed dependencies
$ brew install asciidoc libzip sqlite cmake libusb pkg-config automake libtool
3) Make the brew version of sqlite the default
$ brew link --force sqlite
4) Download and install Qt
Download the online installer:
$ curl -L -o ~/Downloads/qt-unified-mac-x64-online.dmg \
http://download.qt.io/official_releases/online_installers/qt-unified-mac-x64-online.dmg
$ open ~/Downloads/qt-unified-mac-x64-online.dmg
Double click on the Qt installer shown in the Finder window.
In the installer, use the default install folder /home/<your username>/Qt)
To save time and disk space you can unselect Android and IOS packages
as well as QtWebEngine, Qt3D, Qt Canvas 3D and the Qt Extras.
5) run the build script
$ cd ~/src
$ bash subsurface/scripts/build.sh
After the above is done, Subsurface.app will be available in the
subsurface/build directory. You can run Subsurface with the command
$ open subsurface/build/Subsurface.app
I'm foolishly optimistic that this will work. And I would like people to try
this so we can see where it breaks and fix those missing pieces.
Thanks
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