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Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 16, 2015 13:14 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by halla
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Just to let you know, Qt4 on OS X is getting harder and harder to track. There is no Qt4 release which works out-of-the-box on 10.9 or 10.10. Patches exist (and have been applied to 5.x), but 4.8 stays stagnant (and macports and brew didn't apply the 10.9 patch last I checked). I expect Qt4 will be a large enough roadblock for cross platform apps with future OS X releases that Qt5 is more sensible.

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Posted Apr 16, 2015 13:41 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (2 responses)

Well, I built Qt 4.8 on 10.9 (together with my hacked macdeployqt, stripped kdelibs and all the other deps) for the experimental Krita release. I didn't need any patches, but I stripped down the build a lot: no openssl, no webkit, no scripting, no database drivers...

Krita on OSX is extremely buggy, but I don't know whether that's because of Qt 4.8 or Krita.

I've always found OSX ghastly to work on, and I only boot the macmini to make new builds until I have time to really look into making the port good enough for real users.

Weirdly enough there still are people who are using Krita on OSX for real work...

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Posted Apr 16, 2015 14:40 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

You're going to need this[1] patch for running on 10.9 and up (it all builds fine). Modal dialogs cause SIGBUS from the Cocoa runtime without it. For 10.10, Qt needs patched to recognize the 10.10 SDK directory as valid (corewlan symbols missing is the symptom here).

And I don't disagree about it being a pain to develop on. I tend to SSH back into a Linux box and attach to tmux with Vim running in it whenever I'm on my OS X machines.

[1]https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-37699?focusedCommen...

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Posted Apr 16, 2015 14:58 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Thanks! I'll rebuild Qt with that patch.