[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 2.10.1 client for Mac OS

[Ben Shum]

So, I have not done it recently for 2.10 and newest Mac OS X, but
basically the approach I always used in the past was to build the
staff client files on a Linux server first.  Then download the Linux
64-bit client and copy the file/folder contents over to the resources
folder in the Mac app that I was building.  In theory, you could use
the contents from the file generated and linked on the downloads page:
 https://evergreen-ils.org/downloads/evergreen-client-2.10.1_x86_64.tar.bz2

A good trick to figuring out how the Evergreen.app file needs to be
laid out is to download an existing Mac OS client that other people
have built, and open it up to view the contents and see how things are
arranged.  Sometimes I used to do that and replace the innards and the
info.plist file to match the version I want to use it for.

I don't think people have recently tried to actually run make,
configure, etc. on a Mac OS for Evergreen itself.  The guys up in
Sitka (or maybe somewhere else) used to joke about doing it, but it's
definitely not a supported platform for Evergreen right now.

Hope that helps,

-- Ben

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Alex Lazar <alonkiber at yandex.com> wrote:
> Hi all, and especially those who have successfully built an Evergreen staff client for Mac OS.
>
> I am attempting to build a 2.10.1 client for Mac OS, working on El Capitan 10.11.4, following these instructions: http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=mozilla-devel:building_the_staff_client#building_a_macintosh_staff_client.
>
> Step 4 of those instructions states "Make Evergreen.app/Resources the root of your Evergreen application files". I am assuming it means I need to download and unpack the Evergreen tar file, then go into the Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/, run some make commands and then move some resulting files into the Evergreen.app/Resource folder that I previously had set up.
>
> Attempting to do that, I've run into a couple of errors on Mac OS which make me wonder if I should even be trying to build the client on Mac OS or just do it all on Linux?
>
> Wondering how others approach this process? If anyone builds the whole thing on Mac OS, do you first install all the prerequisites, like OpenSRF to have the osrf_config file available?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Alex Lazar
> Initd, LLC