macosx: Hardcode the Qt version to 5.5 for now.

The latest Qt version available in Homebrew is 5.11.x currently, but
this version no longer supports older Mac OS X versions:

  https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms-and-configurations.html

In order for the DMG build to remain compatible with some more older
Mac OS X versions, we hardcode the scripts to use Qt 5.5 for now.

This requires the following on the build box:

 $ brew install qt@5.5
 $ brew unlink qt
 $ brew link --force qt@5.5

With this change the DMG should work on at least Mac OS X 10.8, 10.9,
and 10.10 according to Qt docs (only tested on 10.11.6 / El Capitan).

The DMG also currently uses Python 3.7, which should work fine for
Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and later, according to Python docs
(again, only tested on 10.11.6 / El Capitan).

diff --git a/cross-compile/macosx/README b/cross-compile/macosx/README
index 23a4f874fb83eba1c71edcaedea6185f5f0ac9f0..342757fc3d18df9469e9ecdc3db9061448960eaa 100644 (file)
--- a/cross-compile/macosx/README
+++ b/cross-compile/macosx/README
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Requirements
      available on your system (from Apple) but are required in newer versions
      built by Homebrew: autoconf, automake, libtool, libffi (maybe others).
      Without linking "libffi" for example, the check for pygobject3 will fail.
+   - We currently hardcode the build to use Qt 5.5 (not the latest available
+     version) in order to remain compatible with some older Mac OS X versions.
 
 
 Building

diff --git a/cross-compile/macosx/create_dmg b/cross-compile/macosx/create_dmg
index d08cd7e14aa26da59f30e18a9a7a001c8365180d..f4b36b71c2f5fb871d37aef5c62030feee32882a 100755 (executable)
--- a/cross-compile/macosx/create_dmg
+++ b/cross-compile/macosx/create_dmg
@@ -26,8 +26,11 @@ PREFIX=$HOME/sr_macosx
 # The path where to download files to and where to build packages.
 BUILDDIR=./build_app
 
+# We use Qt 5.5 in order to remain compatible with more versions of Mac OS X.
+QTVER=qt@5.5
+
 # Path to Qt5 binaries.
-QTBINDIR=`brew list qt5 | grep bin | head -n 1 | xargs dirname`
+QTBINDIR=`brew list $QTVER | grep bin | head -n 1 | xargs dirname`
 
 # Path to boost libraries.
 BOOSTLIBDIR=`brew list boost | grep libboost_system | head -n 1 | xargs dirname`

diff --git a/cross-compile/macosx/sigrok-native-macosx b/cross-compile/macosx/sigrok-native-macosx
index 5ba3de2a862e6e5ddba3e62de7b83ce152c60106..cb1435e4769ca69499a002acc635661ea6616ec4 100755 (executable)
--- a/cross-compile/macosx/sigrok-native-macosx
+++ b/cross-compile/macosx/sigrok-native-macosx
@@ -44,8 +44,11 @@ PARALLEL="-j "`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`
 export CC=gcc
 export CXX=g++
 
+# We use Qt 5.5 in order to remain compatible with more versions of Mac OS X.
+QTVER=qt@5.5
+
 # Path to Qt5 binaries (needed for cmake to find the Qt5 libs).
-export PATH=`brew list qt5 | grep bin | head -n 1 | xargs dirname`":$PATH"
+export PATH=`brew list $QTVER | grep bin | head -n 1 | xargs dirname`":$PATH"
 
 # Path to Python 2/3 pkg-config files.
 # In Homebrew, pkg-config files of "keg-only" formulas (Python is one of them)
@@ -57,7 +60,7 @@ PY3=`brew list python3 | grep pkgconfig | head -n 1 | xargs dirname`
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-P="$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$PY2:$PY3"
+P="$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/opt/$QTVER/lib/pkgconfig:$PY2:$PY3"
 C="$C --prefix=$PREFIX"
 
 # Remove build directory contents (if any) and create a new build dir.