ptomato / macos-jhbuild

Temporary repository for building GNOME on macOS

macos-jhbuild

Temporary repository with the necessary configuration to build GNOME modulesets using jhbuild on macOS.

Requirements

• macOS 10.9 or later
• Xcode

How to use

• Make sure command line tools are installed (xcode-select --install)
• git clone https://github.com/ptomato/macos-jhbuild
• cd macos-jhbuild
• ./setup.sh
• Make sure ~/.local/bin is in your PATH
• Edit ~/.jhbuildrc-custom as desired
• If you intend to make app bundles you must temporarily unlink your Homebrew modules until you're done building: brew list -1 | while read line; do brew unlink $line; done (ask brew doctor how to get them back)
• jhbuild bootstrap (if on macOS 10.13, add --skip=bison)
• cd to your install directory (whatever you put as prefix in ~/.jhbuildrc-custom)
• cp _jhbuild/root-dbus-broken/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
• rm -r _jhbuild/root-dbus-broken
• jhbuild run dbus-uuidgen --ensure=var/lib/dbus/machine-id
• jhbuild build bison if on macOS 10.13
• jhbuild sysdeps and make sure nothing looks odd
• jhbuild list and make sure nothing looks odd
• jhbuild build

Modules that currently need patches or changes

For meta-gnome-extended-devel-platform:

• pygobject: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773803
• libpeas: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774175