Mac OS X

sigrok-gui on Mac OS X

This page describes how to build the sigrok subprojects on Mac OS X.

Building

These instructions have been tested on a clean install of Mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.8.4.

Install MacPorts, follow the guide on macports.org (this step will require Xcode on your machine, which is also a dependency to build sigrok).

Install Qt, download qt-mac-opensource-4.7.4.dmg from qt.nokia.com (Only needed for PulseView).

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).

Install libusb, libzip and libftdi, the libsigrok build dependencies:

$ sudo port install libusb libzip libftdi0

Install autoconf, automake, glib2.0+, python 3.3, and libtool to satisfy version dependencies in the build process.

$ sudo port install autoconf automake glib2 python33 libtool

Set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to reflect the future locations of libsigrok and libsigrokdecode for the sigrok-cli build process.

$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

$ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrok
$ cd libsigrok
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

$ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrokdecode
$ cd libsigrokdecode
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

$ git clone git://sigrok.org/sigrok-cli
$ cd sigrok-cli
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

$ git clone git://sigrok.org/pulseview
$ cd pulseview
$ cmake .
$ make
$ sudo make install

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.
See also Wafelijzer's efforts to build Mac OS X binaries.
- Python framework incorrect build for OS X issue 15353