[mythtv-users] macosx build failure
James Linder
jam at tigger.ws
Fri Dec 23 08:59:16 UTC 2022
> On 22 Dec 2022, at 9:43 pm, James <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
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>> On 21 Dec 2022, at 10:41 pm, James <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
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>>> On 21 Dec 2022, at 10:33 pm, John Hoyt <john.hoyt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 5:48 PM James <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
>>> John this feedback is for your info, I'm not asking for a fix.
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>>> I need mythfrontend on macosx running high sierra so (after lots of hoop jumping)
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>>> Installed a High Sierra VM (on parallels)
>>> Installed macports (xcode etc) synced to git hub
>>> run zsh
>>> run compileMythFrontend --version=fixes/32
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>>> *** needs gsed to be installed
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>>> It looks like you're probably using the version of the compile script in the mythtv repo. I have a slightly updated version here that should have resolved the gsed issue: https://github.com/MythTVforMacOS/compileMythfrontend
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>>> That version also has my initial fix to default to mariadb for older macOS versions. Give it a go and let me know if it resolves the gsed and mariadb issues. If so, I'll setup a Pull Request to mythtv to get those changes into packaging.
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>> Tiz late at night in Perth, I'll do in the morning and report back by this time tomorrow
>> James
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> From start to finish without a hitch. Thankyou.
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> In case anyone refers to this mail in the archives:
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> If you need get an install.app from apple. All the other installs I could source failed.
> I needed a High Sierra install and the only way I could get apple to give me that was to use a machine pegged at High Sierra eg iMac27 2011 and download from their developer site (google)
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> Install on a VM. I found parallels to be faster than vbox.
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> Install macports
> Install Xcode as per the doco for macports
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> Sync to github (google)
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> Run John's compileMythtvAnsible.zsh (todays, 22 Dec 2022, worked)
> I have apple Xcode and High Sierra Install. They are over 10G so it'll be messy to share.
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> Dealing with apple changes with time, I can't see THIS way changing, but you may need to spelunk
I built and all was good
I tried to run
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2022-12-23 16:45:52.923371 I Empty LocalHostName. This is typical.
2022-12-23 16:45:52.923379 I Using a profile name of: 'haycorn.home' (Usually the same as this host's name.)
2022-12-23 16:45:52.923443 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.5.34, BE , attempt 0, status dbAwake, Delay: 2000
2022-12-23 16:45:53.498899 C FATAL: Unable to load the QT QMYSQL driver, is it installed?
Not what we want to do but I tried
# port install qt5-mysql-plugin
but this did not resolve the issue.
About to try on the build machine, perhaps something loade there …
Needless to say my old app runs …
mythfrontend version: fixes/32 [v32.0-28-gd80a8da3f0]
James
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