Build Instructions

[epifanio]

Hi @juangburgos,
Thank you so much for this project!
I'm an OS X user, I was wondering if you ever built WtDesigner on a mac, I'd love to give it a try. Do you have any advice/documentation on how to build it?

I tryied the following (from a git clone):

Massimos-MacBook-Pro:WtDesigner epi$ ls
COPYING     TODO.txt    deploy      src
README.md   bin     rec
Massimos-MacBook-Pro:WtDesigner epi$ cd src/
Massimos-MacBook-Pro:src epi$ qmake wtconfig.pri 
Massimos-MacBook-Pro:src epi$ make
clang++ -headerpad_max_install_names -stdlib=libc++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.7 -arch x86_64 -o wtconfig.app/Contents/MacOS/wtconfig    -F/usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.7_2/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.7_2/lib -LC:/Wt-3.3.5-msvs2013-Windows-x86-SDK/lib -LC:/Wt-3.3.5-msvs2013-Windows-x64-SDK/lib -llibboost_chrono-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_container-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_context-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_coroutine-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_date_time-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_exception-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_filesystem-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_graph-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_iostreams-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_locale-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_log-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_log_setup-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_math_c99-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_math_c99f-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_math_c99l-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_atomic-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_math_tr1f-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_math_tr1l-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_prg_exec_monitor-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_program_options-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_random-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_regex-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_serialization-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_signals-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_system-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_test_exec_monitor-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_thread-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_timer-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_unit_test_framework-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_wave-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_wserialization-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibboost_math_tr1-vc120-mt-1_59 -llibhpdf -lwttest -lwt -lwtdbo -lwtdbofirebird -lwtdbomysql -lwtdbopostgres -lwtdbosqlite3 -lwthttp -lwtisapi -framework QtGui -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.7_2/lib -F/usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.7_2/lib -framework QtCore 
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-LC:/Wt-3.3.5-msvs2013-Windows-x86-SDK/lib'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-LC:/Wt-3.3.5-msvs2013-Windows-x64-SDK/lib'
ld: library not found for -llibboost_chrono-vc120-mt-1_59
clang-3.9: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [wtconfig.app/Contents/MacOS/wtconfig] Error 1

I have boost installed via homebrew:

Massimos-MacBook-Pro:src epi$ brew info boost
boost: stable 1.60.0 (bottled), HEAD
Collection of portable C++ source libraries
https://www.boost.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.60.0_2 (11,059 files, 123.6M) *
  Built from source on 2016-07-22 at 10:09:58 with: --c++11 --with-icu4c --with-mpi --without-single --without-static
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/boost.rb
==> Dependencies
Optional: icu4c ✔
==> Options
--c++11
    Build using C++11 mode
--universal
    Build a universal binary
--with-icu4c
    Build regexp engine with icu support
--with-mpi
    Build with MPI support
--without-single
    Disable building single-threading variant
--without-static
    Disable building static library variant
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version

It seems to look for windows specific files.

thank a lot for any advice!

[juangburgos]

Hi,

I would start looking at these notes on how to compile WtDesigner on Linux.
These are my own personal notes and no guarantees are given, but they should provide a good starting point. Mac Os and Linux compilation shouldn't be too different.

Some thing I would highlight for porting WtDesigner into mac os:

• You need to generate an specific Qt *.pri file for Mac OS, then compile using the main *.pro file. You cna use the existing ones for Windows and Linux to give you a starting point.
• Take into account that WtDesigner uses some very specific versions of both Qt and Wt, which are mentioned in my personal notes.

Finally if you have some success, please share your experiences !

Good luck.