Archive:Getting Started/Build/Mac OS X

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


    • 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
    

    MacPorts or Fink

    The best method for currently installing KDE on Mac is to use either Macports or Fink to build at least the system requirements and then also install their stable KDE, or build your own development KDE using on top of their base.

    You can find out more information on the KDE on MacPorts page.

    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:~/.local/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/:/opt/kde4-deps/lib/pkgconfig/"
    

    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. I assume you have OS X 10.5 or 10.6 installed, otherwise you would have some more dependencies.

    cd ~/kde4.build
    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
    curl ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-sources-2.7.7.tar.gz -O
    tar xfz libxml2-sources-*.tar.gz
    cd libxml2-2.7.7
    ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde4-deps/
    make
    sudo make install
    
    cd ~/kde4.build
    curl ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxslt-1.1.26.tar.gz -O
    tar xfz libxslt-*.tar.gz
    cd libxslt-1.1.26
    ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde4-deps/
    make
    sudo make install
    
    cd ~/kde4.build
    mkdir docbook
    cd docbooj
    curl http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.5/docbook-xml-4.5.zip -O
    unzip docbook-xml-4.5.zip
    # RUN ALL THE COMMANDS AT http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/DocBook.html AS ROOT
    # DOWNLOAD THE FILE AT http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/docbook-xsl.html
    sudo tar xfj docbook-xsl-1.75.2.tar.bz2
    cd docbook-xsl-1.75.2
    # RUN ALL THE COMMANDS THERE AS ROOT
    
    cd ~/kde4.build
    curl http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk-doc/1.15/gtk-doc-1.15.tar.gz -O -L
    tar xfz gtk-doc-*.tar.gz
    cd gtk-doc-1.15
    ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde4-deps/
    
    git clone git://git.gnome.org/glib
    cd glib/
    ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/kde4-deps/ ## THIS IS WHERE I GET STUCK (entriken 2010-08-20)
    
    • shared-mime-info
    • AGG
    • giflib or libungif
    • libart_lgpl
    • libidn
    • libjpeg
    • libmng
    • libpng
    • libusb
    • OpenEXR
    • PCRE
    • Strigi
    • pkgconfig
    • dbus

    Qt/Mac Open Source Edition

    Get the Qt/Mac source code from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/sdk-mac-os-cpp

    The latest version has QtDBus and should work with KDE for Mac. Get it here: http://download.qt.nokia.com/qtsdk/qt-sdk-mac-opensource-2010.04.dmg

    (statement make by entriken and unverified 2010-08-20)

    CMake

    Get the latest CMake from http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html#latest and install:

    cd ~/kde4.build
    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 (pages are Linux focused, but can be useful)

    Further Reading

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