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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 10 months ago

Commod0re commented 10 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 10 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 10 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