Building test version of subsurface on Mac

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Nov 18 14:54:21 PST 2019 

OK, did some quick testing, here's the good news:

All you need from Homebrew is 
brew install libjpg libpng
Everything else is correctly bundled already.

Here's the bad news: at least running inside a VM, the result is not making me happy:



and it complains about having to use a software renderer: 

Unable to create basic Accelerated OpenGL renderer.
Unable to create basic Accelerated OpenGL renderer.
Core Image is now using the software OpenGL renderer. This will be slow.

So this may not be good enough for you to use just yet.
I am of course super curious to figure out why this isn't working as expected and whether that's indeed a side effect of running inside a VM (I don't have a computer on 10.15 at this point).

/D



> On Nov 18, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> sorry - day job interfering with my responsiveness.
> 
> Install Homebrew if you don't have it:
> 
> https://docs.brew.sh/Installation <https://docs.brew.sh/Installation>
> 
> Then install our depenencies
> 
> brew install xz hidapi libusb libxml2 libxslt libzip openssl libgit2 libssh2
> 
> actually, I think you don't need all of them as a couple are used as static libs, but that SHOULD work.
> I am creating a clean macOS 10.15 VM to try this for myself - there may be changes to these instructions once I got that working.
> But I'm reasonably hopeful that this SHOULD work.
> 
> /D
> 
> 
>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Martin de Weger <martin at deweger.org <mailto:martin at deweger.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> I can install some stuff, no problem!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Met vriendelijke groeten,
>> 
>> Martin de Weger
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Op 18 nov. 2019, om 21:50 heeft Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>> het volgende geschreven:
>>> 
>>> This is actually surprisingly good news - what's missing is a library that likely came from Homebrew.
>>> You could install those really easily - or I can try and find time to make sure those all get bundled in the app that we create on GitHub.
>>> 
>>> If you'd be willing to install things locally to see if that's sufficient, please let me know and I'll send some instructions.
>>> 
>>> /D
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 11:36 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Fix pushed
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/tag/ci-release <https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/tag/ci-release>
>>>> 
>>>> now contains a Mac .app.zip -- GitHub has revved their macOS environment and it seems that the binary doesn't run on older macOS versions - but I haven't done extensive testing. The one thing I can see immediately is that the Subsurface binary itself isn't executable.
>>>> So please download, unzip, and then 'chmod +x ./Subsurface.app/Contents/MacOS/Subsurface` and then try to execute that binary. Depending on your macOS version this may fail. If it does, I'll need to figure out a different way to create a binary that you can use...
>>>> 
>>>> /D
>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 10:51 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> So I found that there was a bug in my scripts and I am trying to fix that (but am struggling a bit with oddities in how the GitHub actions deal with files that are folders. I should have that fixed soon so that in the future there will again be Subsurface.app.zip files as part of the releases.
>>>>> 
>>>>> /D
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 10:25 AM, Martin de Weger <martin at deweger.org <mailto:martin at deweger.org>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Dirk,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I didn’t see the app version, so I tried to work my way through the build. I’ll check from time to time if there is a (newer) version for the Mac so I can play around a bit. No worries on pushing it especially for me.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Met vriendelijke groeten,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Martin de Weger
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Op 18 nov. 2019, om 17:11 heeft Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>> het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I pointed Martin at the release link so he would be able to download binaries. I didn't expect anyone to start from those sources, frankly (they are automatically put there by GitHub, I don't think I can turn this off). Building Subsurface from non-git sources is actually harder than just from a cloned git repository!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Usually all the main binaries are in that directory https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/tag/ci-release <https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/tag/ci-release>, but sometimes one or more are missing because of issues with the way I implemented the uploading of releases. It looks like the latest set is missing the macOS .app.zip file :-(
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I can push a current binary to the Subsurface website download area... and I can try and figure out a way to make the upload or the CICD builds more reliable - unfortunately the latest upload looks like it succeeded and somehow ended up getting overwritten / deleted by another build...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Unless you are planning to work on the code itself, I would strongly encourage people to just test with the builds we provide as that is much more indicative of what our users will experience as well.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> /D
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 2:38 AM, Anton Lundin <glance at acc.umu.se <mailto:glance at acc.umu.se>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 17 November, 2019 - Martin de Weger wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I’ve downloaded the latest developer release from https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/tag/ci-release <https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/tag/ci-release> <https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/tag/ci-release <https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/releases/tag/ci-release>> and unpacked it at ~/Software/subsurface. After reading the Install file I executed cd ~/Software/subsurface/..; bash ~/Software/subsurface/scripts/build.sh -build-deps -desktop from the terminal. As a result, I get the following output. 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The ci-release tag is used to provide current dev builds, so if you only
>>>>>>>> would like to run a dev-build of subsurface you should be able to
>>>>>>>> download a Subsurface.app.zip from the ci-release page. Obviously there
>>>>>>>> is a bug somewhere that causes it to not show up right now.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> If you would like to build your own latest and greatest subsurface
>>>>>>>> binaries, I'd suggest you clone the repo instead of downloading a
>>>>>>>> ci-release snapshot of the source.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> building Subsurface in subsurface/build
>>>>>>>>> Building in /Users/martinw/Software, installing in /Users/martinw/Software/install-root
>>>>>>>>> cannot find qmake or qmake-qt5
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> What am I missing? I have QT 5.13.2 installed in my app folder.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> You need to have qmake in your path, or point it out with
>>>>>>>> QMAKE=path/to/qmake or by pointing CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to the cmake files
>>>>>>>> in your qt install.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> //Anton
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>> Anton Lundin	+46702-161604
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