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Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 16, 2015 13:41 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by mathstuf
Parent article: Quotes of the week

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...

Quotes of the week

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

Thanks! I'll rebuild Qt with that patch.