#19 Does not build on OS X

[Anonymous]

The build setup is hopelessly brain-dead, failing to compile on OS X due
to lack of linux includes:

$ make
make all-recursive
Making all in ccstruct
source='blobbox.cpp' object='blobbox.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/blobbox.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/blobbox.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../config/depcomp \ g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../ccutil -I../cutil -I../image -I../
viewer -I/opt/local/include -DNDEBUG -O3 -Wall -c -o blobbox.o `test
-f 'blobbox.cpp' || echo './'`blobbox.cpp
In file included from ../ccutil/host.h:73,
from ../ccutil/clst.h:24,
from ../ccutil/varable.h:24,
from blobbox.h:23,
from blobbox.cpp:21:
../ccutil/platform.h:7:26: error: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [blobbox.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Autoconf suckage again..

platform.h is trying for linux style headers #include /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h instead

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[Nobody/Anonymous]

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The platform adaptation cutil and ccutils libraries aren't properly autoconfed but the os x changes are all headers.
you'll also see:
root@devi.local:cutil}make {root@/dev/ttyp9
source='listio.cpp' object='listio.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/listio.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/listio.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../config/depcomp \ g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../ccutil -I/sw/include -DNDEBUG -O3 -Wall -c -o listio.o `test -f 'listio.cpp' || echo './'`listio.cpp
listio.cpp:33:20: error: malloc.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [listio.o] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Exit 2

and same in util.cpp and variables.cpp

//#include <malloc.h>
#include "/usr/include/sys/malloc.h"

and it builds, commitergods, hear my header tweaks!

[peter-auk]

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MacOS 10.4.7 with X-Code 2.1
./configure throws fairly elementary errors which can easilly be fixed
by symlinking up a level both /usr/include/ppc/limits.h (or i86 ;-)
and /usr/include/malloc/malloc.h

Why symlink instead of adding includes to the ./configure -?
Because this method should also have fixed the next slack lunix
configure script I bump into...

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Trying to compile on MacOS, looking here for info, but can't understand what you all are saying. Can anyone give a step-by-step regarding what needs to be changed (and where) so that it will compile on MacOS?

thanks.

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I'm pretty clueless when it comes to this stuff but version 1.03 compiled successfully on PPC OS X 10.4.9, without any changes.

After unpacking tesseract-1.03.tar.gz > tesseract-1.03.tar > tesseract-1.03, which is a folder:
$ cd /path/to/tesseract-1.03
$ ./configure
$ make

The "tesseract" binary ended up in a subfolder called "ccmain". Note that the "README" file says "The executable must reside in the same directory as the tessdata directory" so move one or the other, or both to meet this requirement.

Read the README - it has some other important stuff regarding usage.
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