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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

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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