Krita on OS X Lion

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sunday 17 July 2011 Jul, Patrice wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I'm setting up (attempting to at least) a Kde/Krita development environment
> on Lion with the latest toolchain from Xcode 4.2 beta 3(superset of Lion
> toolchain Xcode 4.1 with llvm 3 etc...).  Need a little help getting past
> the installation hurdle and in return will share and contribute my
> experiences on this bleeding edge platform:
> 
> NOTE:
> - I have a fully operational  qt-kde up and running (all tools in bin run
> fine)
> - built kdesupport, base runtime and kdelibs according to instructions on
> support sites with success.
> - launched dbus (system and session)
> - before I build Calligra Creative decided to try some pure KDE apps like
> kate and konsole without success.

Hm... I'd try to get a simple app like kdebugdialog to run first. But the trace you put on the forum shows there's a problem initializing kapplication, somewhere in kstandarddirs. Maybe we'd best ask on kde-mac (https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-mac) as well. I'm completely out of my depth here, it's so long since I last touched a mac...


> - I am avoiding DYLD_LIBRARY settings as it is not a very good idea on Mac
> and settling for DYLD_FALLBACK... Now at least kbuildsycoca4 and others find
> their libraries (especially attica and dbusmenuqt)
> - I had to build qt with dubs-linked to avoid the "missing libdbus-1" error
> - I meet all of the Krita and Karbon requirements (eigen, lcms ,exiv2 and
> qimageblitz )
> - I'm using build scripts as advised in techbase/kde.org pages
> 
> Questions:
> - I am building everything from git "master" branches.  Should I be pointing
> to a more appropriate branch?

Master is good.

> - Is kdeinit necessary ?  Especially if my interest is purely in running
> Krita and Karbon

Yes, you need it for the file dialogs to work, among other things, if I remember correctly.

> - There is talk of dbus incompatibilities and "special" dbus ports for kde.
>  I installed the latest libdbus-1 from macports.  Am I ok?

I'm not sure...

> - Some start dbus via dbus-launch?  Which is the best way to start dbus on
> the mac.  The system bus is auto-launched for me correctly.

Not sure either, I'm afraid. 

> -  Can someone with a "working" OS X (SL at least) Krita development
> environment share their setup ?

I don't think there's anyone around, actually, you're boldly going where no hacker has gone in recent years :-)


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Boudewijn Rempt
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