Mac situation

[Kevin Funk]

On Thursday, 12 October 2017 21:25:56 CEST Nick Winder wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a new job which requires using a Mac, but it pains me using xcode.
> 
> I've seen a post about kdevelop5 beta testing on mac, so I was interested
> in the procedure / installation requirements.
> 
> I'd be willing to out the time in to test this out and see how things go.

Heya Nick,

There are several ways to build KDevelop on macOS, unfortunately none of them 
are what we recommend the 'default' way.

You can get KDevelop via 
- Homebrew (probably the easiest at this point)
  - https://github.com/haraldF/homebrew-kf5
- MacPorts (never tested)
- Craft (a bit tricky to set up, I can guide you [1])
  - Very useful for packaging the application at the end
    (if you want to help with that, using Craft is recommended)

tl;dr: I'd totally like to get this out on macOS at some point, but the 
package (.dmg) we generate at the moment is still broken in unknown ways and I 
haven't had the time/motivation to look into this again.

For your interest, here's the CI system building the .dmg package:
  https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/kdevelop-master-macos/
  (using Craft to build the dependencies & generate the package)

[1] 

Get help:
  https://www.kdevelop.org/contribute-kdevelop (join #kdevelop on Freenode)
  https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Mac

Looking forward getting some help on macOS!

Regards,
Kevin

> Cheers


-- 
Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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