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Re: Building TeXmacs for macos


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  • From: Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>
  • To: Pierre-Henri Jondot <address@hidden>
  • Cc: texmacs-users <address@hidden>
  • Subject: Re: Building TeXmacs for macos
  • Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 15:07:26 +0100
I can add that building with Qt5 works fine in my machine and as far as I
know also for Joris and Denis (always on Mac). So there should be something
different going on on your specific setup.

> On 14. Nov 2020, at 15:04, Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The -isysroot option should come from Qt, gathered by configure from the
> qmake output. Probably Qt5 was build with 10.11 sdk. I'm not sure. However
> independently of what is your running OS I was meaning that the headers of
> Big Sur should have changed, because there is no such problems with SDKs
> from previous systems (e.g. Catilina).
>
> To investigate the issue you can use a very simple Qt application and try
> to build it with qmake to see which headers are used. As I said, the error
> messages you get seems to come from changes in the headers which cause
> symbol clashes in TeXmacs. We had this kind of issues before due to the
> fact that various libraries might have incompatible #define
>
>
> Max
>
>> On 14. Nov 2020, at 14:45, Pierre-Henri Jondot <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Again : I am still running catalina too… but it seems that the configure
>> step when building with qt 5 had problems… configure chose to build with
>> 10.11 sdk (with -isysroot directive) by default which fails. It is
>> possible to build with qt 5, but for that to succeed, I had to change
>> quite a few paths in makefile.
>>
>> I haven’t explored Darcy Shen suggestion to use CMake instead yet, but it
>> might be another way out.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pierre-Henri
>>
>>> Le 14 nov. 2020 à 14:31, Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden> a écrit :
>>>
>>> I might add that on Catilina (MacOS 10.15) TeXMacs compile fine with Qt 5
>>> (e.g. 5.9 or 5.15). Maybe something is changed in Big Sur (MacOS 11) at
>>> the level of the include files and this makes compilation fails. For the
>>> moment I do not want to update my machine so I cannot indagate further.
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 14. Nov 2020, at 13:28, Pierre-Henri Jondot <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We exchanged a few mails with Max, and the conclusion is that the
>>>> problems I had were the result of trying to build TeXmacs with qt5,
>>>> which is possible it seems, although not yet supported and a bit of a
>>>> pain, as it seems to really confuse the configure step. I think the
>>>> instructions on the website regarding compiling TeXmacs from the sources
>>>> should be edited to advice compiling with Qt4 and not Qt5. (No version
>>>> is suggested there, which led me to believe the current version of Qt
>>>> was the expected one, or at least as good as the previous one…)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Pierre-Henri
>>>>
>>>>> Le 14 nov. 2020 à 09:03, Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden> a
>>>>> écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> That is strange. Building on mac is usually ok for me, with homebrew
>>>>> for example. Which Qt do you use? Can you post the compilation
>>>>> invocation for mac_app.mm? (some few lines before the error message)
>>>>>
>>>>> Max
>>>>
>>>
>>
>


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