[Qgis-user] Mac OS X building QGIS 3 dev on a clean machine!

[John Harrop]

Absolutely agree with your points David.  I used to have time at work I could commit to development, which I miss.  Years ago I contributed a little to the 3d fixes for GRASS and I’ve been involved with other largish builds in the past.  I agree its not intended for everyone but there is an attraction to it as a puzzle.  Motivation at the moment is:

1) there was a push, on the QGIS web site for testing of prerelease 3.  This seems to have been much easier for Windows than OS X and I have a strong personal interest n seeing the OS X support since QGIS is crucial on that platform where the choices are much more limited.

2) there have been some geology related discussions about specifying and developing some plugins that will be a very important step in establishing QGIS as a platform of choice for drill hole work.  I can’t look at this in much detail util I have at least a QGIS3 beta running.

3) you probably would agree that is not often possible to do a really clean install where you can check dependancies and conflicts carefully.  There are always other things that have been added and decisions made about configuration.  A clean, just rebuilt machine is a good opportunity for that so I don’t want to waste it.

Thanks for your comments.  I think I’ll follow the MacPorts root and probably head to their forums.  But I’m open to contact from here - please don’t hesitate.

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> On Feb 27, 2018, at 2:18 AM, David Liontooth <lionteeth at cogweb.net> wrote:
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> Hi John,
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> Vince at Macports has been responsive to packaging requests and appears to have done a great job, though last I looked there were still some features missing, such as the qgis3 server. Ideally we'd have 2-3 teams working on it. I don't know how homebrew works, but let's assume they have someone who would figure out the qgis3 build for everyone else's benefit: in that case, you could support that person by testing his builds. In my book, qgis users shouldn't all be spending their time trying to figure out the intricacies of the build process; it's not something we need to keep reinventing.
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> If you're starting from scratch, I'd give macports a try. If you run into a problem, submit a detailed bug report; you might for instance catch dependencies Vince missed.
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> David
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> On 2/26/18 12:32 PM, John Harrop wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> After spending my spare time trying to get QGIS3 to build on my MacBook Pro I’ve had some success clearing away dependancy problems, but I still always end up with one that prevents the configuration stage or the build fails very early on.  (Thanks David for your previous advice.)
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>> Starting today (the silver lining of having a disk fail on an iMac at home) I have a clean High Sierra (10.13.x) to work on.  There is no Anaconda creating competing python installs yet.  There is no commitment to MacPorts or Homebrew, although the MacPorts seems to be doing better in my build attempts over the last couple of weeks.
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>> I would appreciate any comments and recommendations for a building on a clean Mac.  I would be pleased to record and report how this goes for sharing here as well.  I get the feeling there are a good number of other Mac users out there with similar interests in supporting testing of QGIS 3.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> John Harrop
>> jcharrop at gmail.com
>> 
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