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dalboris / vpaint

Experimental vector graphics and 2D animation editor
http://www.vpaint.org
Apache License 2.0
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Please make a script to automate compiling on MacOS X #8

Closed Emasoft closed 8 years ago

Emasoft commented 8 years ago

Please make a shell script to automate compiling on MacOS X. Something like make_vpaint.sh. There are many tools written in Node.js to automate the download and install of dependencies: NPM, BOWER, GRUNT, NODE-GYP, etc.

For example here is a popular open source app you can learn from: https://git.popcorntime.io/popcorntime/desktop/tree/development

You can look at the make shell script here (this script is all you need to execute to build the app): https://git.popcorntime.io/popcorntime/desktop/blob/development/make_popcorn.sh

For the Node.js dependencies this is the NPM configuration: https://git.popcorntime.io/popcorntime/desktop/blob/development/package.json

This is the Grunt script: https://git.popcorntime.io/popcorntime/desktop/blob/development/Gruntfile.js

This is the dependencies configuration for BOWER: https://git.popcorntime.io/popcorntime/desktop/blob/development/bower.json

This is the shell script for code signing the binary (required on MacOS X): https://git.popcorntime.io/popcorntime/desktop/blob/development/dist/mac/codesign.sh

For installing GCC and the C++ dependencies, just take a look at the NODE-GYP examples: https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp

You can use NODE-GYP to execute the the QT Mac deployment tool that can be found in the QTDIR/bin/macdeployqt folder. http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/deployment-mac.html#macdeploy

You can also use those tools for automate the build on all the other OS platforms, like this app does.

scribblemaniac commented 8 years ago

I would much rather have a build script for homebrew. I doubt that either will ever happen though, because it will be difficult to locate the correct version of qt and gcc (not confusing it with qt 4 or the version of gcc that comes with mac) and to create the custom mspec. If you just want a simple installation, download the stable release binary. If you really need the latest version, there are very detailed instructions on how to build it with qt creator on the homepage.

dalboris commented 8 years ago

I take good note of this, but indeed, I'll probably not spend time on this as it is not critical and I have a thousands other things to do. That being said, I do appreciate input regarding MacOS, as I'm really new to this and I'm happy to learn best practices. Making the MacOS binary for VPaint was pretty much my only experience using a mac (I'm 95% of the time on Linux, 5% on Windows).