Re: [Gimp-print-devel] RFC: New release and abandoning MacOS?

[Michael S. <ms...@ms...>]

Matt,

> On Aug 8, 2024, at 4:01 PM, Matt Broughton <wal...@ma...> wrote:
> ...
> libusb is not included with any version of macos. What I am tyring to do is make an installer package for Gutenprint where gutenprint53+usb will work without having the macos Gutenprint installer actually installing libusb--  to build a statically linked binary or library.

So I actually do this for my LPrint and hp-printer-app packages on macOS, which depend on PAPPL and libusb.

The libusb configure script supports the "--disable-shared" option.  Use it and then it will only link statically to libusb.

I also set the compiler flags before running the configure script as follows to build "fat" for macOS 11 and later:

    CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=11.0 -arch x86_64 -arch arm64"; export CFLAGS
    CXXFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=11.0 -arch x86_64 -arch arm64"; export CXXFLAGS
    LDFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=11.0 -arch x86_64 -arch arm64"; export LDFLAGS

You can change the min version to whatever you like, although the code signing and notarization stuff changed between macOS 10.13 and 10.14 so I personally wouldn't go any older than 10.14...  If you decide to do a PPC-compatible build then you'll need an older system and use "-arch i386 -arch ppc" in the compiler options.

If it would be useful, I'm happy to share my (currently private) "macbase" project which I use to build a couple dozen common tools and libraries on my Macs, all using static libraries and "fat".

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Michael Sweet