[KDE/Mac] kdesrc-build

[Jeremy Whiting]

Scratch the bit about not being able to create /home/jeremywhiting, silly
me my home is /Users/jeremywhiting not /home :)

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I appreciate the effort that has gone into getting kde stuff in mac ports
> and so on. I spent a bit of time today on #kde-mac on irc discussing with
> Marko about the mac setup and how to build qt5/kf5 based applications on a
> mac vm I finally got to work here (until I can at some time get a real mac)
> to test some applications I maintain in kde (and a few frameworks
> themselves). I was originally naive and from previous mails here thought I
> could use kdesrc-build as is to build on mac since it's unix-based. From
> reading
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/osx-patches/repository/revisions/master/entry/KDEMacPortsTools/README_FIRST
> it seems it's not that straightforward. Also I finally got xcode to
> download and install on the mavericks vm (took a long time here for some
> reason) and tried with MacPorts versions of cmake and git to run
> kdesrc-build myself, but it complained that it couldn't create
> /home/jeremywhiting which already exists, so that confuses me too. Anyway
> here are my main questions after all that rambling:
>
> 1. Can we improve kdesrc-build itself or it's include files to get it to
> build on mac without these additional steps? (I was thinking maybe another
> include file within kdesrc-build's sources like kf5-applications-include or
> whatnot to set additional mac only options)
> 2. What are the major barriers, technical and/or organizational, that
> prevent newcomers from getting, building, and contributing fixes to kde on
> mac ? I think I remember a link to a wiki of technical issues, but I'm also
> interested in organizational issues. If we can solve some/most of these we
> could get many more hands helping with this work.
>
> thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> P.S. My main reason for initially setting up a mac vm is to build/run
> applications and fix issues on this platform that don't appear on other
> platforms. CI is interesting to me, but not as much as individual
> developers building, running, and bugfixing on this platform.
>
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