[KDE/Mac] Creating a OS X packaging receipt for DMGs?

[Milian Wolff]

On Dienstag, 8. März 2016 14:36:59 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday March 08 2016 11:17:53 Kevin Funk wrote:
> > I just want to ship libclang + deps. Which, for instance, on my system is
> > just around 50M ("unoptimized", from distro packages).
> 
> ...
> 
> > Note: I don't want to ship the Clang toolchain, I just want to ship what's
> > required for the KDevelop parser. Huge difference.
> 
> Indeed, noted.
> 
> The question stands what is needed to build that parser. I'm guessing
> KDevelop isn't the only tool that can leverage libclang without requiring a
> full LLVM+CLang install.

What parser are you talking about?

> > So, you agree it's easier to just ship our own version...?
> 
> Easier I don't know, for the end user who grabs the installer image probably
> yes (though size aside s/he probably won't care which libclang is being
> used).
>
> > Note that compared to other IDEs, KDevelop still has a *super* low image
> > size. KDevelop is around ~ 300 MB unpacked on Windows, including all deps
> > such as Qt5/KF5/Clang/LLVM. Compare that to other IDEs.
> 
> If you don't have to embed a full LLVM+Clang toolchain, then yes.

Yes, we don't.
 
> > > build time)? Wouldn't it be possible somehow to point the parser to an
> > > existing clang install, like the one provided in Xcode?
> > 
> > Just libclang is needed. Not a full LLVM+Clang install.
> 
> Not even for building the parser?
> Being able to use an existing, external clang install would still be
> preferable in my opinion but I have no idea if that would even have been
> possible.

What parser again? Do you mean the code that uses libclang? You can build that 
with any somewhat recent C++11 compiler, no need to build it against the Clang 
that corresponds to the libclang we use. They are unrelated.

> > Sorry, I'm not really familiar with MacPorts.
> 
> Well, you just asked about dmg creation, and a good number of the kde-mac
> people use KDE through MacPorts :P

Cheers

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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