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setvisible / ArrowDL

ArrowDL (Arrow Downloader) is a download manager for Windows, MacOS and Linux
https://www.arrow-dl.com/
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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how to install on macos? #126

Closed Commod0re closed 5 months ago

Commod0re commented 5 months ago

I went to install ArrowDL on a mac but there appear to be no release files. I looked in the .tar.gz file but that looks like a linux build, and the install script didn't work anyway because it isn't compatible with bsd sed

so... is there actually a way to install on macos? are we supposed to build it ourselves? can you provide any guidance?

thanks in advance

setvisible commented 5 months ago

Hi,

The .tar.gz is Linux build. It's probably not working well with MacOs.

Maybe the most efficient is to add a new macos target to .github/workflows/deployment.yml in the ubuntu manner and see how it goes.

That's cool because I didn't know that Macos runners were now available: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-03-github-actions-jobs-running-on-macos-latest-are-now-running-on-macos-12/

For your question, I would suggest to adapt the deployment.yml to build the application... So, if you want to contribute.... On my side I cannot garantee to help soon because my time is currently spent on a house move. If you do it and if it works, put your changes on a Pull Request so that your contribution could be deployed.

Regards,

Commod0re commented 5 months ago

maybe you should take the stuff off your website that says you have macos redistributables since you actually don't have any

Unfortunately building from source is not a good solution for me, thanks anyway