Mac OS X
This page describes how to build sigrok on Mac OS X.
How to build and run the Qt GUI
These instructions have been tested on a clean Mac OS X 10.6.8 install.
Step 1. Install MacPorts, follow guide on http://www.macports.org/install.php. (This step will require Xcode on your machine, which is also a dependency to build sigrok)
Step 2. Install qt, download qt-mac-opensource-4.7.4.dmg from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/qt-for-open-source-cpp-development-on-mac-os-x
Step 3. Install git.
$ sudo port install git-core
This will also pull in a bunch of dependencies required by git-core (and some of them also by sigrok).
Step 4. Install libusb, libzip and libftdi, Sigrok build dependencies.
$ sudo port install libusb $ sudo port install libzip $ sudo port install libftdi
Step 5. Enter some directory where you want to store the sigrok source, and check it out.
$ cd some-directory $ git clone git://sigrok.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/sigrok/sigrok
Step 6. Enter the sigrok source directory.
$ cd sigrok
Step 7. Generate the platform specific configure script.
$ ./autogen.sh
Step 8. Generate the Makefiles for the current environment.
$ ./configure
Step 9. Compile the Sigrok libraries and the sigrok-cli.
$ make
Step 10. Install Sigrok libraries and the sigrok-cli to /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/bin/
$ sudo make install
Step 11. Enter the gui directory.
$ cd gui
Step 12. Prepare the Qt project to be built using make.
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig qmake -spec macx-g++
Step 13. Compile the sigrok-gui application.
$ make
Step 14. Open the sigrok-gui application just built.
$ open -a sigrok-gui.app
Notes
To build on Snow Leopard (10.6) you need to use the Cocoa (32bit and 64bit) Qt libraries. Don't use the default download link on that page but the one you can find further down the page.
Currently we are using macports for the libusb dependency and are relying on the fact that macports are installed in /opt/local.
TODO
- Find a sane way to bundle libusb with the sigrok.app.
- Include an icon with the app.
- Set the relative paths in the binary's and DyLibs
- Building universal DyLibs and binaries