[GCompris-devel] MacOSX assistance

[Arnold Dumas]

Am 12.01.15 um 23:19 schrieb Bruno Coudoin:
>
> Le 12/01/2015 20:43, B.J. a écrit :
>>     I’d like to help contribute on the OSX front if possible.  I’m new
>> to CMake and the newer QT (I think the last time I tried qt may have
>> been 15 years ago or something silly…), so I was wondering if the team
>> member who normally compiles/packages Mac binaries would help me get
>> started.  I’m sure I’m not setting it up correctly, though it looks
>> like Cmake and QT Creator are working judging by the example
>> projects.  Hoping to help with 0.24 version for Mac…thanks!
>>
> Hi,
>
> Welcome on GCompris.
>
> We would love to have a good support on MacOSX so your help will be
> appreciated.
>
> I have not tried to compile on MacOSX for a while but if I remember
> there was nothing special. You just open the top level CMakeLists.txt,
> compile and run. This should launch GCompris.
>
> We have a blocking, as you will see there is no sounds. This is related
> to this bug:
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-36175
>
> In more details, we put all our resources in rcc files (sort of Qt's zip
> file). It happens that on MacOSX the multimedia stack does not support
> playing audio files from rcc files. The clean option is to add this
> feature ourself in Qt and contribute it upstream. The bad one is to make
> a specific packaging on MacOSX in which we put audio file out or rcc files.
>
> We had support for making a bundle but it was breaking other part of the
> compile chain thus I commented it out at commit 76b9171.
>
> Here is where we are, as you will see once you can run GCompris, we are
> not that far from having a good version on MacOSX and your help is welcome.
>
> Bruno.
>
>
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Hello,

I would also be interested in this topic. I recently tried to compile 
GCompris on OS X but I wasn't able to generate a proper Makefile. Maybe 
the CMakeLists file needs some specific tweaks, not sure at the moment.

Any hint would be very appreciated.

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