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Compilation for macOS

The process is in early stages and it will surely be improved in the future. Things to evaluate: whether to do cross-compilation or compile from macOS. There are toolchains in rustup, but since there are a lot of system libraries in place, the question is whether the process will work.

At the moment, just use macOS.

  1. Homebrew should be installed.
  2. Install Rust (suggestion: rustup)
  3. The following packages should be installed via Homebrew. They have a lot of dependencies, so take your time.
    • meson
    • gtk4
    • gtksourceview5 (note: if this fails to install, run brew install svn first, although I hate having to make this suggestion).
    • desktop-file-utils
    • pygobject3
  4. Before compiling, you have to export the following environment variable, export GETTEXT_DIR=$(brew --prefix)/opt/gettext, so that it can actually pick your gettext library.
  5. Once you have the source code, you should be able to compile it using the same instructions in README.md.

Separate Homebrew

To avoid installing a lot of dependencies in your system-wide Homebrew installation, you can have a separate Homebrew installation for building this application.

git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/brew homebrew
export PATH=homebrew/bin:$PATH

In fact, when making changes to this file, it should be done from a clean environment without system-wide Homebrew and only a local Homebrew installation, in order to avoid false positives due to dependencies not in this list that were accidentally installed.