Am 21.03.2016 um 22:35 schrieb Joel Kulesza <jkule...@gmail.com>: > > LyX Developers, > > I'm currently having trouble building LyX 2.2.0b2 against Qt5 on OSX 10.11.3 > (El Capitan, the latest released OSX). Hopefully one of the experts here can > help so I can more effectively provide feedback on the bleeding edge. > > A bit of background: I have extensive LaTeX experience, reasonably extensive > experience developing C++ and Fortran-based scientific codes, and some > experience with developing Perl/Python Tk-based GUI applications. However, I > have no experience developing Qt-based GUI applications. > > Regardless, I use Fink for managing packages on my OSX machines to afford a > Linux-like environment/toolset. I would prefer to get LyX built using (a) > Fink-provided tools or (b) independently built/installed tools. I do not > want to install another manager such as Homebrew or MacPorts. Sorry, but I > feel as though one is enough.
That should be ok - no problem. I’m using MacPorts, but this cannot be the culprit. And I won’t install another 3rd party package manager either. > > Nevertheless, I have tried: > • Building LyX against Fink's Qt4, version 4.8.7 (from qt4-base-mac) > with > ./configure --with-qt-dir=/sw/lib/qt4-mac/ > > This leads to successful configuration, where I can then `make` and have a > working build. However, there is no Retina support (the feature I've most > been waiting for). > > Note that I have not tried building against Fink's Qt4, version 4.7.3, from > qt4-base-x11. I’d guess this wouldn't make much sense. The native Carbon- or Cocoa-based Qt should be ok. I’d expect to fail X11-Qt on Mac with LyX. The code isn’t aware of this combination. > > • Building LyX against Fink's Qt5, version 5.5.1 (from qt5-mac) with > ./configure --with-qt-dir=/sw/lib/qt5-mac/ > > which fails to configure with > > configure: error: cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the > right $QTDIR. The config.log would be of interest then. > > Setting `export QTDIR='/sw/lib/qt5-mac'` does not fix this. > > Note that there is no equivalent qt5-x11 package to test with. See above. No value to have it. > > • Building LyX against qt.io's Open Source compiled version of Qt 5.6.0 > with first configure/making Qt5 with the source code installer here which > appears to configure/make/make install (to /sw/lib/qt5-qtio) successfully. I > then try > ./configure --with-qt-dir=/sw/lib/qt5-qtio/ Really? What’s the contents of /sw/lib/qt5-qtio? > > where I again see > > configure: error: cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the > right $QTDIR. > > Note that the size of /sw/lib/qt5-qtio is 9.3M to be compared with Fink's Qt4 > size of 610M and Fink's Qt5 size of 719M. I didn't want to "install" all the > features; however, this seems awfully light... > > This is very likely a case of me not understanding a subtle directory > structure change between Qt4 and Qt5 because I would expect Fink's Qt5 to be > adequate. Morever, I do see a bin/qmake for both Qt4 and Qt5 (for both Fink > and qt.io). I'm unsure what else might be needed for "a simple Qt > executable.“ > > Any thoughts you can provide are most appreciated. > > Please don't hesitate to contact me with any comments, questions, or concerns. Thank you for your help to get the thing working with fink. Stephan
