[Qgis-user] Mac OS X Install Notes

[John Harrop]

Having spent available spare time for the last couple of weeks trying to build QGIS 3 beta on a Mac - I’m happy to report I saw the light yesterday and it all came together.

The executive summary (assuming you have MapPorts installed):  sudo post install qgis3

Credit to several useful hints from various people here.  I must confess that having searched various places on the web I found several discussions about installing the various dependancies needed for QGIS, tweaking cmake files to get around problems etc and spent my time working though that - unsuccessfully.  Then yesterday, before starting to do dependancy installs, configure and build on a clean machine I have I did one last search for useful blogs and found the MapPorts qgis3 which I had missed previously.  It took a while to go through its paces, as expected, but it built just fine on my MacBook Pro.  

Since finding beta testers is currently a priority is might be worth a note on the QGIS web page that this is available for Mac users.

Big thank you for the guys who did the work to get the MacPorts version working so well!

John Harrop, PGeo, FGS
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