<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""> OSX Success.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> OK. Finally! Have successful launch and open. Summary below, follow the instructions carefully folks!</div> <br class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Here is how I got ktechlab to launch on MacOSX Sierra, October 2018. If you are reading this much later your mileage may vary.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> 1.) Install fink (<a href="http://finkproject.org" class="">finkproject.org</a>) (requires SUDO or SU)<br class=""> 2.) Install kde bundle (fink install bundle-kde4-mac)<br class=""> 3.) ALSO <br class="">kdelibs4-mac-dev<br class="">automoc-mac<br class="">soprano-mac-dev<br class=""><br class="">NOTE: This *may* be fixed in ktechlab update sometime in the future<br class=""> 4.) modify build-simple.sh and run-simple.sh at the “readlink” area:<br class=""><br class="">#SCRIPTDIR=$(dirname $(readlink -f “$0”))<br class="">readlinkf(){ perl -MCwd -e 'print Cwd::abs_path shift' "$1";}<br class="">SCRIPTDIR=$(dirname $(readlinkf "$0")) <br class=""><br class=""> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> 5.) Then include in your .bash_profile <br class="">PATH=$PATH:/sw/opt/kde4/mac/bin<br class=""><br class=""> 6.) Runn build-simple.sh.<br class=""><br class="">NOTE: This *may* be fixed in ktechlab update sometime in the future<br class=""> 7.) build-simple.sh copies into /Applications/KDE4. (This might fail if you are not an administrator on your mac) (it probably should copy into ~/Applications (user home directory, applications.) Copy that app into inst-simple directory after the build.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""> 8.) Copy /Applications/KDE4/ktechlab.app to inst-simple/bin<br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> 9.) Modify run-simple.sh to launch the app the macintosh way:<br class=""><br class=""> open -a "$SCRIPTDIR/inst-simple/bin/ktechlab.app”<br class=""><br class=""> 10.) modify your login items in System Preferences to add /sw/Applications/kdeinit4.app as a automatic start login item. (Or alternatively, always remember to click on it before launching ktechlab.</div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> 11.) you can then change into ktechlab and execute “sh run-simple.sh” from a command prompt and it will work.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>