Mac Development

[decuser]

Is featherpad currently buildable on Mac? Are there any dev setup notes for mac?

[tsujan]

Is featherpad currently buildable on Mac?

Yes, @shlyakpavel added the support, to both qmake and cmake compilations.

Are there any dev setup notes for macOS?

As I (FeatherPad's author) don't have macOS, I can't tell. I use it on Linux. However, I'd appreciate it if the needed info is added to INSTALL.

[shlyakpavel]

Is featherpad currently buildable on Mac?

Yes

Are there any dev setup notes for Mac?

You need cmake/qmake, Qt from http://qt.io and hunspell build from https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell (not from homebrew!!)
When everything is as on linux. You can also use Qt Creator (just build/run).

[shlyakpavel]

Important: you need Qt6 to build it on arm macs

[decuser]

@shlyakpavel: I downloaded the source, QT creator, and installed hunspell. When I went to build it, it errored out:

Project ERROR: hunspell development package not found make: *** [sub-featherpad-qmake_all] Error 3 08:59:50: The process "/usr/bin/make" exited with code 2.

After installing hunspell, I ran 'sudo update_dyld_shared_cache', any idea how I get QT Creator to know about hunspell?

[shlyakpavel]

install pkg-config (from homebrew, for example)
Did you try to open the project as cmake or qmake in Qt Creator?

[decuser]

I installed pkg-config from macports. I just opened the .pro file. It didn't ask which (cmake vs qmake). However, it talks about qmake in the compiler output window.

[shlyakpavel]

Open cmakelists.txt in Qt creator as a project

[decuser]

OK. Well at least the error is more descriptive:

CMake Error at /opt/local/share/cmake-3.21/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message): Could NOT find HUNSPELL: Found unsuitable version "", but required is at least "1.6" (found /usr/local/lib/libhunspell-1.6.dylib)

I tried it with latest hunspell and this version 1.6.2, looks like hunspell isn't reporting it's version number. I built hunspell from source as per instruction above.

[shlyakpavel]

I had the same problem. Check if your hunspell installation is correctly found by PkgConfig. It works perfectly if PkgConfig is installed by homebrew, but it may differ with macports paths. Also double check that all libraries and compilers are for the same architecture (x86-64 or arm64).

[decuser]

Ah, my mistake it's /usr/lib/pkgconfig. Either way, no dice. If I read the timezone diff, we're talking about 16 hours from now? Sure.

[shlyakpavel]

Ah, my mistake it's /usr/lib/pkgconfig. Either way, no dice. If I read the timezone diff, we're talking about 16 hours from now? Sure.

It's 00:47 13th December now
It will be 00:47 14th December in 24 hours from now
It will be 18:47 in 24+18=42 hours from now.
It will be 19:00 in 42 hours and 13 minutes from now

[decuser]

NM! I figured it out. Just a cut and paste issue. The path was /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. Thanks for the tips, it's building fine now.

[shlyakpavel]

Fine. There is no need to have a call then. Feel free to write here if you have additional questions

[shlyakpavel]

The issue may be that macports pkgconfig has different defaults for paths. I don't think I need to dig it deeper as anyone can now find this thread and set the environment variable. For those who come here searching "hunspell not found" : check your library arches twice on m1, it's really easy to mess them.

[shlyakpavel]

Is it m1 Mac?

[decuser]

No, it's an old MacBook Pro i7, running Mojave.