Archive:Getting Started/Build/Mac OS X
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- Note: You may wish to do all of this inside a directory name that ends in .noindex or .build to keep spotlight from indexing all of your temporary build-files as you build them.
mkdir ~/kde4.build
cd ~/kde4.build
Setting Up Your Build Environment
Variables must be set to build KDE successfully, and are noted below
- Note: Replace /opt/kde4-deps with the location of your 3rd-party tools, and add your cmake location if you compiled from source
export PATH="/opt/qt4/bin:/opt/kde4/bin:/opt/kde4-deps/bin:$PATH"
export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/kde4-deps/lib"
export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH="/opt/kde4-deps/include"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/qt4/lib/"
You might want to put those in your ~/.bash_profile
- For Fink users: If your Distribution line in /sw/etc/fink.conf is 10.4-transitional, instead of 10.4, make sure you run sudo gcc_select 3.3 before proceeding with any compiling, or you will end up with binary-incompatible c++ code!
- For others: run sudo gcc_select 4.0 if you want to be compatible with the pre-made installers.
Required Third Party Tools
The following third party tools are required for successfully building KDE on OSX. Also, here are some good tips for installing from source.
curl http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.tar.gz -O
tar xfz libtool-2.2.tar.gz
cd libtool-2.2
ls
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde4-deps
make
sudo make install
cd ~/kde4.build
git clone git://git.gnome.org/libxml2
cd libxml2
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- AGG
- giflib or libungif
- libart_lgpl
- libidn
- libjpeg
- libmng
- libpng
- libxslt
- libusb
- OpenEXR
- PCRE
- Strigi
- shared-mime-info
- pkgconfig
- subversion (to check out the kde sources)
- dbus
Qt/Mac Open Source Edition
Get the Qt/Mac source code from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/qt-for-open-source-cpp-development-on-mac-os-x
curl http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.3.tar.gz -O
tar xfz qt-everywhere-opensource-src-*.tar.gz
Patches are required for a successful build. Download the qt-copy patches through KDE's svn:
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/qt-copy/patches/
and apply the patches:
cd qt-mac-opensource-4*
for patch in /path/to/patches/*.diff; do patch -p0 < $patch; done
Note: when applying patches you will get errors when processing x11 specific files (i.e. files that match the pattern *_x11.{h,cpp}), simply skip those patches.
And finally, compile qt-mac:
./configure -prefix /opt/qt4 -qt-gif
make all install
Please note: The Qt/Mac binary edition available from ftp.trolltech.com will not work, because it does not contain the QtDBus module! (tested with 4.3.2)
CMake
Get the latest CMake from http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html#latest and install:
curl http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.2.tar.gz -O
tar xfz cmake-*.tar.gz
cd cmake-*
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde4-deps
make all
sudo make install
Building kdelibs
kdelibs must be checked out of svn locally to be built:
cd ~/kde4.build
svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdelibs
And then compiled by performing the following:
mkdir kdelibs.build
cd kdelibs.build
cmake ../kdelibs -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/kde4
make all install
Troubleshooting
If kdelibs fails to compile successfully, check the build status for the latest Nightly Builds and Continuous Builds at http://public.kitware.com/dashboard.php?name=kde
Information about getting and compiling the dependencies can be found at Getting_Started/Build/KDE4 and Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Prerequisites (pages are Linux focused, but can be useful)
Further Reading
For more general information on using CMake, see the CMake Tutorial.