Improve the wiki on Dependencies for Compiling from source on macos

[ad-chaos]

I don't know what's the best course of action since the wiki is open to the public but editing it directly felt wrong, so here I am instead making an issue instead, lemme know if this is fine to include :)

For some reason I wasn't able to use the dmg from the releases and kept getting hit by errors saying that the binary wasn't signed and such, compiling from source helped.

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Dependencies

Let's start by downloading them from the official website: https://qt-project.org/downloads or from homebrew using

brew install qt@5

Then set the appropriate environment variables to your current shell session:

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/bin:$PATH" 
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/lib" 
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/include" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/lib/pkgconfig"

Or better yet, just launch a subshell with those environment vars set:

PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/bin:$PATH" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/include" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/lib/pkgconfig" zsh

[vballestra-latch]

HI, I too had to compile from source to get an M1 native binary. I did the same, by installing QT5 from brew and defining the envs... and it works if I run it directly from the generated .app. The I wanted to create a dmg to install it on another mac ... but I get the "unsigned error". I tried signing with a self signed cert (using macdeployqt sign option): macdeployqt cool-retro-term.app -always-overwrite -qmldir=app/qml -dmg -fs=APFS -codesign="MyCert" -sign-for-notarization="MyCert"

but still doesn't work. It refuses to load some QT libs :

Termination Reason:    Namespace DYLD, Code 1 Library missing
Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/QtQuickControls2.framework/Versions/5/QtQuickControls2
Referenced from: <8517D06D-D016-39BE-A44D-F78788EC693B> /Users/USER/*/cool-retro-term.app/Contents/MacOS/cool-retro-term
Reason: tried: '/Users/xxx/tmp/cool-retro-term/cool-retro-term.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtQuickControls2.framework/Versions/5/QtQuickControls2' (code signature in <8E2241C8-AF12-35D0-A3BF-F9F15DA6A227> '/Users/xxx/tmp/cool-retro-term/cool-retro-term.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtQuickControls2.framework/Versions/5/QtQuickControls2' not valid for use in process: mapped file has no Team ID and is not a platform binary

Do you know how can I fix this ?

[ad-chaos]

I think you're best option is to compile it from source on that other mac as well (or maybe just install qt on it?), I am not too well versed with creating portable binaries on mac so I am afraid that's probably all I can say.