Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] 2.4.0 and 2.3.1 Releases not working on MacOS

[Rui N. C. <rn...@rn...>]

On 6/10/25 22:11, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 10, 2025 9:38:26 PM CEST Rui Nuno Capela via Linuxsampler-devel wrote:
>> On 6/6/25 17:34, Rui Nuno Capela via Linuxsampler-devel wrote:
>>> On 6/6/25 10:52, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
>>>> The problem rather is *what* cmake installs. For the QSampler Mac
>>>> build cmake
>>>> does not install any file at all:
>>>>
>>>>     + cmake --install build --prefix /home/persson/mac64/ --verbose
>>>>     -- Install configuration: "Release"
>>>>
>>>> For the QSampler Windows build cmake only installs the translation
>>>> files, but
>>>> not the most relevant file qsampler.exe:
>>>>
>>>>     + cmake --install build --verbose
>>>>     -- Install configuration: "Release"
>>>>     -- Up-to-date: /home/persson/win32/share/qsampler/translations/
>>>> qsampler_cs.qm
>>>>     -- Up-to-date: /home/persson/win32/share/qsampler/translations/
>>>> qsampler_fr.qm
>>>>     -- Up-to-date: /home/persson/win32/share/qsampler/translations/
>>>> qsampler_ru.qm
>>>>
>>>> Like described in my previous email, cmake --install looks into the file
>>>> ./build/install_manifest.txt to determine what to install. In case of the
>>>> Windows build that file only contains those 3 translation files, and
>>>> in case
>>>> of the Mac build that file is completely empty.
>>>
>>> oh, no, now I recall that the qsampler's src/CMakeLists,txt rules for
>>> install is severely incomplete (or missing the ".exe" suffix) on windows
>>> and completely absent for macos...
>>>
>>> sorry
>>
>> but there's something now... :)
>>
>> however these have been "blindly" pasted from elsewhere and there are no
>> guarantee whatsoever that it will ever work on windows or macos resp.
> 
> Yeah, I think it's OK. Thanks Rui!
> 

great!

> 
> I saw that you also added an optional installation of Qt onto the system.
> While that probably makes sense for Windows, on a Mac the common way is to
> just include the required Qt libraries (as "frameworks") with qsampler's app
> bundle (i.e. inside that "qsampler.app" directory).
> 

so you think that's superfluous?

just say yes and I'll remove that as unnecessary...

thanks
-- 
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
rn...@rn...