Building KDE/Mac

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Note that these notes are extremely out of date (Oct 2007) See project page for up to date information.

My notes about the process of building KDE/Mac on OS X Tiger (10.4.x).

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Prerequisites

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Apple Developer Tools

Download and install the latest Apple Developer Tools.

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Qt

Native KDE/Mac is built with the native Qt/Mac toolkit. No X11 is required.

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Setup

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Compile

To see what options are available you can do: 
./configure -help
Modify your options as needed.

In the patched Qt/Mac directory I generally do the following commands 

./configure -fast -qt-gif
make
sudo make install

This will configure Qt/Mac with GIF support and as native OS X frameworks and install it in /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-VERSION/

Make sure /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-VERSION/bin is in your path and that you can run qmake.

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CMake

  • Checkout the latest CMake from the CMake CVS.
  • Build it using the following commands 
./configure
make
sudo make install

This will bootstrap it, build it and install it in /usr/local.

Make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path.

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Other packages

KDE requires other libraries and toolkits to compile and run. These can be installed in several different way. The easiest way is to use a package manager. There are two package managers for Unix style software under OS X: Darwinports and Fink.

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Darwinports

Download and install the base Darwinports setup. Make sure you get the correct one for your system.

After installing, make sure /opt/local/bin is in your path and run 

sudo port sync
sudo port -d selfupdate

to make sure your setup is up to date.

  • Necessary packages include: jpeg, libxml2, libxslt, libungif, libpng ADD MORE HERE
  • Useful packages include: ccache (place /opt/local/ccache/bin in your path before /usr/bin), distcc.
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Fink

TODO

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From source

TODO

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Building KDE

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Obtaining the source

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Configuring

CMake can create standard unix makefiles or XCode projects. To specify which generator CMake should use, supply the -G parameter. This page will assume the use of Unix Makefiles.

  • Create a new directory to build in (builddir != srcdir)
  • In the build directory, execute the following command 
CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib \
CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include \
cmake \
/path/to/kdelibs
Notes: At one point, I also had to add 
-DCMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES:STRING=/opt/local/include \
-DCMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES:STRING=/opt/local/lib
between the cmake command and the path to kdelibs. I'm not sure why I needed to pass the paths both as environment variables and as CMake variables, but some library wasn't found if I did't.
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Building

Since we're assuming the use of the cmake Unix Makefiles generator, just type make along with any parameters you wish to add (i.e. -j2 to compile with two parallel jobs).

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Fixes Needed

Everything in subversion currently compiles ok. (17/April/2006)

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