[Qucs-devel] Building qucs on MacOS X

[Thoralt F. <tho...@pr...>]

Hi,=20

I was able to successfully build and install qucs on MacOS X
(10.4/Tiger). The configure script told me to send you a note
about my success on the following platforms (I tested both):
  i686-apple-darwin8.9.1
  powerpc-apple-darwin8.9.0

My installed C compiler is gcc-4.0.1.

Because the installation instructions for qucs are somehow
incomplete (inexistent?) I decided to write a short guide on
how to install qucs on MacOS 10.4. I added the text below.
It would be nice if you included it into one of the next
releases so other people using MacOS will be able to install
qucs without trial and error.

For building I installed Qt3. Is it right that qucs will not
build with Qt4? If it did, I would want to find out how,
because Qt4 supports the native MacOS Aqua look and feel,
while Qt3 only shows these old fashioned X11 windows on
MacOS.

Cheers
Thoralt


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Building qucs for MacOS X 10.4/Tiger

To build qucs, you need to install X11 and QT first. Here is how I
did it.

1. Installing X11

To install X11 (if you do not already have it), insert your MacOS
installation DVD, scroll down, open "Optional Installs" and choose
the package "X11" for installation. Finish the installation.

2. Installing QT

An easy way of installing QT3 is using Darwin Ports. With Darwin
Ports you can install MacOS versions of many known open source
projects by using simple commands.

Get it here: http://darwinports.com/

Download the .dmg file from there, open it and install the Darwin
Ports package. After that, Darwin Ports needs to be updated to the
most recent version. Open a shell and type the following commmand
(you will be asked for your password):

$ sudo port -d selfupdate

Now it is time to get QT3. In the shell, type this command:

$ sudo port install qt3

Now Darwin Ports will fetch a lot of packages which are needed to
install QT3. Be patient, this will take some time. Once finished,
you need to export a new environment variable. Do this by typing
the following two lines into your shell:

$ QTDIR=3D/opt/local/lib/qt3
$ export QTDIR

Do not close the shell, we'll need it with the above environment
variable for the installation of qucs.

3. Compiling qucs

You should get the latest version of qucs now. I wrote this article
using qucs-0.0.11, but this should work for future versions, too.

I assume you have downloaded the qucs source code to
Documents/qucs-0.0.11.tar.gz, so we can use our shell to extract
the source files with the following commands:

$ cd Documents
$ tar =ADxvzf qucs-0.0.11.tar.gz

Now compile qucs:

$ cd qucs-0.0.11
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/qucs /Applications/qucs

If everything went ok, you should now have a link to the binary "qucs"
in your Applications. You're done!

-- This guide was originally written by Thoralt Franz --

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