Re: MacOS X GUI build

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 30, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Jacob Dawid wrote:

> I have added that directory at the suggestion of another MacOS developer that 
> has helped me building before. Obviously, this is wrong.
> 
> Can you send me a screenshot of how it looks like on MacOS? Does the terminal 
> work properly?

To build on MacOS 10.7.2 (Lion) I first created a symbolic link for qmake-qt4. 
On macports, with qt4 installed, "qmake" does the job

        sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/qmake /usr/local/bin/qmake-qt4

Next, I made a copy of the gui

        hg clone ./octave ./gui
        cd gui
        hg update gui
        cd gui

Then I pointed the flags for mac to /opt/local instead of /opt/local-native

        sed -i '' -e 's/local-native/local' octave-gui.pro

Finally, ...

        ./compile.sh

That is all I needed to do. The terminal font is too small for my taste, and 
readline doesn't appear to be function. But octave is functional. I think the 
octave the gui is the one I have installed (older, but recent version) so that 
may explain the readline problem.

Ben