Archive:Getting Started/Build/Mac OS X

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Required Third Party Tools

The following third party tools are required for successfully building KDE on OSX.

• AGG
• bzip2
• giflib or libungif
• libart_lgpl
• libidn
• libjpeg
• libmng
• libpng
• libxml2
• libxslt
• libusb
• OpenEXR
• PCRE
• pkgconfig
• subversion (to check out the kde sources)

Verify Compiler Version

• Fink: 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!
• Manual: run sudo gcc_select 4.0 if you want to be compatible with the pre-made installers.

Qt/Mac Open Source Edition

Download qt-mac-opensource from http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/mac.html

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 And finally, compile qt-mac: ./configure -prefix /opt/qt4-mac -qt-gif make all install

CMake

CMake may be downloaded from CVS: cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/CMake login Note: password is "cmake" cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/CMake co CMake And then compiled and installed: cd CMake ./configure --prefix=/opt/cmake make all install

Setting Up Your Build Environment

Variable 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/"

Building kdelibs

kdelibs must be checked out of svn locally to be built: 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

Using Binaries

If you're interested in just checking things out, binaries for kdelibs and parts of KDE in general are available at http://ranger.users.finkproject.org/kde/ and are generated semi-regularly.

Further Reading

For more general information on using CMake, see the CMake Tutorial.