macosx: Hardcode the Qt version to 5.5 for now.

[sigrok-util.git] / cross-compile / macosx / README

diff --git a/cross-compile/macosx/README b/cross-compile/macosx/README
index 22fc612625548c79d727ea3797a927e004b60b9c..342757fc3d18df9469e9ecdc3db9061448960eaa 100644 (file)
--- a/cross-compile/macosx/README
+++ b/cross-compile/macosx/README
@@ -17,8 +17,14 @@ Requirements
 
  - All requirements of the individual sigrok subprojects.
  - Homebrew (http://brew.sh)
-   Currently the script assumes that Homebrew is used and hardcodes certain
-   package versions and paths.
+   - Currently the script assumes that Homebrew is used and hardcodes certain
+     package versions and paths.
+   - You probably need to "brew link --force" certain packages that may be
+     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.
 
 
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