[QGIS-Developer] Building QGIS 2.18 on OSX

[William Kyngesburye]

Well, I build the OS X package.  I recently upgraded to Sierra and it messed up my development setup.  I had problems with QGIS also, but didn't want to spend time figuring it out (I need to build for older systems, and I was way behind on QGIS updates) so I used my other Mac that I kept at Yosemite.

- installing Qt4 - I had already installed Qt4 so running the installer was not a problem.  But what I have is a standard OS X installer package for Qt4, that should not crash anyways.  BUT, it installs a couple important items in /usr/lib and /usr/bin, which are protected in Sierra by SIP and will fail.  You'd have to hack those bits so they are available elsewhere in an unprotected location.  You can use Pacifist to extract installer files so you can put them in custom locations.

- compiling Qt4 - I never had much luck with this in the past, even in supported OS X versions, but it's long past supported OS X versions and you will at least get lots of warnings, if not errors.  Maybe homebrew and the like have patches to work around these, but sounds like you still had problems.


> On May 29, 2017, at 9:33 AM, Helton Costa <heltucosta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> This is my first post here and I hope there's not already a post related to this, even thought I searched through the list a little.
> 
> I have been trying to build QGIS 2.18 for about 3 weeks following a few step by steps I found but none of them gave me success. I'm on OSX 10.12.
> I first followed the official step by step from QGIS, and then, other ones using homebrew, but wasn't able to finish the build for the intended version.
> I do believe I have a polluted OS and libraries, but I invested around 6 hours cleaning it and my environments to try it all again, and still, no success.
> 
> Mainly, I believe my issue is regarding Qt4, which is already deprecated and I'm not able to install it properly. I already tried the .dmg from official's qt website (which crashes) and some cartr and osgeo formulaes from homebrew and still no success.
> Somewhere along the configuration and build process I get errors regarding Qt4 or some of their python bindings libraries and even thought I did manage to fix some of them, the build was never able to finish.
> 
> Do you guys believe it is still possible to build non-master versions of QGIS on OSX, and if so, what would be some kind of different approach in order to be able to achieve it?
> 
> Kind regards, 
> 
> Helton Costa
> 
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