[bt-devel] Mac build?

[Martin Gruner]

Greg,

we don't need ICU, please skip it altogether.

mg

Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 14:00:57 schrieb Greg Hellings:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen
> 
> <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
> > The Mac frontier has been silent for a long time. Has Greg done anything
> > for it? I don't expect anything, but it would be nice to have an
> > enhanced Mac build for 2.4. I edited the Build wiki page a bit.
> 
> The way the chips have fallen with getting married have led to my wife
> mainly using our Mac and myself mainly using our PC.  That, combined
> with the fact that there seemed almost no interest in the Mac build
> means I just haven't bothered to build on Mac.  I have only run into
> two "wishlist" items for the Mac build and they both relate to size:
> 
> 1) Apple does not distribute headers for its included ICU library.
> One can install a community patched set of headers from Fink (which
> would require a different build for every version of OS X) to build
> against the included versions which are usually very lagged from the
> upstream version or a much closer to updated version from MacPorts
> which will allow a single binary for multiple versions of OS X, but
> increases the install size.
> 
> 2) Qt builds as a Framework on Macs.  The Framework includes both
> release and binary versions, as well as additional files (some of the
> headers, etc).  While it might be possible to remove some of the extra
> files, every time I try to remove either the debug or release version,
> the Framework complains about missing files.  I'm guessing this could
> be circumvented bye listing the individual files to install into the
> Framework directory and only including the appropriate files
> (currently it's set to use a directory version of the INSTALL macro),
> but I have yet to try that method.  Including both versions also
> increases the install size.
> 
> Compared to an approximately 12-13MB download and 60ish MB install
> size for the Windows version, the Mac version weighs in at a hefty 34
> MB download size and installs to about 100 MB or more on-disk.  That
> is significantly larger than any similar application I have installed
> on my Mac.  With the native build of ICU, it shaves several megs off
> the download size and maybe as many as 15 or more off of the install
> size.  Installing only one version of Qt would also drastically bring
> down both the install and download sizes.
> 
> Making a new build would be as easy as just borrowing the Mac for
> 20-30 minutes tonight.  However, I'm still running Leopard, so if
> someone else has access to Snow Leopard and XCode, it is probably best
> if they build it for compatibility's sake.  I'm not aware of any
> outstanding problems with the build or package system on Mac other
> than what I detailed above.  If anyone else is interested in giving
> building a try, I'd be more than happy to work with you.  I know the
> more avid Mac users on sword-devel had listed a few things they
> thought which made the app "feel" less Mac like and more Unix like.  A
> search back through my mailbox could dig up the thread, if someone is
> interested.
> 
> --Greg
> 
> >  Yours,
> >        Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
> >        e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
> >
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