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Next, you need a copy of the moduleset file. You *could* just pass the url to jhbuild, but it's easier to download it:
 
Next, you need a copy of the moduleset file. You *could* just pass the url to jhbuild, but it's easier to download it:
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That will retrieve the modules file to your current directory, which we'll assume to be ~.  
 
That will retrieve the modules file to your current directory, which we'll assume to be ~.  
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to update everything that has been changed since the previous build. Most of the time nothing will have changed except gramps itself.
 
to update everything that has been changed since the previous build. Most of the time nothing will have changed except gramps itself.
  
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==== Gramps 4.x and Git Master ====
  
 
Gramps 4.x is updated to use the Gtk+-3 series for its GUI. This requires a couple of changes.
 
Gramps 4.x is updated to use the Gtk+-3 series for its GUI. This requires a couple of changes.

Revision as of 04:18, 5 September 2016

Building Gramps from Scratch

Building Gramps from scratch is useful to produce a version not currently available as a binary (for example, a PPC version) or to produce a complete environment for debugging and further development, including debugging of all the C libraries Gramps uses, like gtk.

This is a command-line process. It's not too difficult, but you'll be using Terminal.app, not XCode. Unfortunately, Gtk has so far resisted efforts to get it to successfully cross-compile PPC on Intel or vice-versa, so the whole process must be repeated on machines of each architecture. N.B. This procedure has not been tested against OS X 10.4 Tiger. Some packages may not be compatible with that very old version of OS X. You'll need XCode, Apple's development environment. There's a copy on your OS X distribution DVD, or you can download the latest version from Apple, though you must register as a Mac developer. For Lion/Mountain Lion users, XCode is available for free from the App Store.

Next, read the build instructions for Gtk-OSX, especially the Prerequisites. Download and run the gtk-osx-build-install.sh script, which will set up jhbuild for you.

It's important that jhbuild is not confused by any existing MacPorts or Fink installation. For this reason, it can be convenient to create a new Mac User account and log in to that account if you have either of those installed.

If you are running OSX 10.7 Lion or later, you'll need to use Xcode 3. Building Gramps with Xcode 4.3 or later--which is what is supplied for 10.7 on--produces code that won't run. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702908 for details.

If you're not familiar with using the unix command line, you might find the frequent use of "~" below puzzling. It refers to the user's home directory (mine is /Users/john; if your name is John, then yours probably is too.) You can use it that way in commands if your current directory is somewhere else.

jhbuild is installed in ~/Source/jhbuild, and produces a binary which appears in ~/.local/bin. You'll want to add ~/.local/bin to your path:

 export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

Gramps 3.4.x

Next, you need a copy of the moduleset file. You *could* just pass the url to jhbuild, but it's easier to download it:

   curl -o gramps.modules https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gramps-project/gramps/maintenance/gramps34/mac/gramps.modules

That will retrieve the modules file to your current directory, which we'll assume to be ~.

The Gtk-OSX build instructions are very straightforward, but we need to deviate from them a bit to keep from doing things more than once. Run the following commands from the terminal:

 jhbuild bootstrap
 jhbuild --moduleset=~/gramps.modules build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap berkeleydb python meta-gtk-osx-core meta-gtk-osx-python gramps

jhbuild by default puts everything it is building in ~/gtk (controlled by the hidden files ~/.jhbuildrc and ~/.jhbuildrc-custom ). ~/gtk/source contains the downloaded sources, and ~/gtk/inst contains the built libraries and applications. Not everything that this procedure builds will be included in the Gramps application bundle; there are some intermediate dependencies and build tools that are necessary for building everything but not required at runtime. ```That doesn't mean that some modules can be skipped.```

At this point, you can do

 jhbuild shell
 gramps

at the command line and run gramps. Most everything will work (see the note about spelling dictionaries above).

Once you've done this once, you can generally get away with just running

 jhbuild --moduleset=~/gramps-mac/gramps.modules build meta-gtk-osx-core meta-gtk-osx-freetype meta-gtk-osx-python gramps

to update everything that has been changed since the previous build. Most of the time nothing will have changed except gramps itself.

Gramps 4.x and Git Master

Gramps 4.x is updated to use the Gtk+-3 series for its GUI. This requires a couple of changes.

Download the modules file for the branch you want to build:

 curl -o gramps.modules https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gramps-project/gramps/maintenance/gramps42/mac/gramps.modules

or

 curl -o gramps.modules https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gramps-project/gramps/master/mac/gramps.modules

The list of targets changes to reflect using Gtk+-3:

  jhbuild --moduleset=~/gramps-mac/gramps.modules build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap meta-gtk-osx-freetype meta-gtk-osx-gtk3 berkeleydb python meta-gtk-osx-python-gtk3 gramps-git

If you want to build the latest release tarball rather than the latest check-in, use gramps instead of gramps-git for the last module--but note that since we don't release from the master branch, gramps.modules doesn't have a gramps module.

If you're planning to work on several branches, a single checkout will work: Start with master. Gramps is pure python, so once you've got everything built you need repeat this only to update the dependencies. You can quickly switch branches in your git repo with:

 git clean -fdx
 git checkout maintenance/gramps40
 python setup.by build

.jhbuildrc-custom

It's annoying and error-prone to type the long list of modules every time you want to build gramps, so you may want to modify ~/.jhbuildrc-custom to declare the moduleset and modules variables. Note that .jhbuildrc-custom is a Python file that is loaded and executed by jhbuild, so you can make it quite complex. Do beware that defining new global variables will elicit a warning from jhbuild so be sure to prefix any top-level variables with '_'.

Gramps 3.x and EXIF Editing

Gramps 3.3.0 introduced a new module, EXIF Editing, which has two tricky dependencies that JHBuild doesn't know how to handle. Thanks to Gtk+-3, these have been replaced in Gramps-4.0 (and master) with a module that JHBuild can build, so these instructions apply only to Gramps-3.4.x. In order to evade the persnickityness of jhbuild's dependencies, they're given as "soft" dependencies -- you have to add them to your modules list. If you don't, Gramps will still build fine, you'll just get a warning notice about Exiv2 not being installed.

Warning:Boost-python will not successfully build with either the 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion) SDKs. With 10.7 it won't build at all; with 10.6, it will build but will crash Python on import. Consequently you can't build EXIF editing using Lion or later, since earlier SDKs are not available.

The first is Boost-python, a python interface for C++ provided as part of Boost. It uses its own build system, bjam. Since jhbuild doesn't know how to use bjam, it will download the package for you, then error out. Select item 4, "start a shell", and do the following:

 cd tools/build/v2
 ./bootstrap.sh --with-toolset=darwin
 ./bjam --prefix="$PREFIX" install
 cd ../../..
 bjam toolset=darwin address-model=32 --prefix=$PREFIX --with-python --cmd-or-prefix=$PYTHON cxxflags="$CXXFLAGS" cflags="$CFLAGS" linkflags="$LDFLAGS" install

Once that's done, quit the shell and select "2" (ignore error) twice to move on to the next library, PyExiv2, which also uses a different build system, SCons. The SCons folks are bright enough to use distutils, which JHBuild can handle, so that gets built and installed for you. JHBuild will stop again after downloading and extracting PyExiv for you, so once again select "4" to start a shell and run the following:

 export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I$PREFIX/include"
 export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$PREFIX/include"
 export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lpython2.7"
 scons
 scons install
 ln $PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libexiv2python.dylib $PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libexiv2python.so
 install_name_tool -id python2.7/site-packages/libexiv2python.dylib $PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libexiv2python.dylib

Quit the shell and pick "2" a few more times to move on to the next module.

Webkit

Gramps has an optional dependency on WebKit, which is used for the html-renderer add-on. If for some reason you want to use this add-on, add WebKit to your list of dependencies but be aware that it take a long time to build. WebKit will not build on 10.4 (Tiger) or earlier systems, nor will it build against a 10.4 SDK. You must be running 10.5 (Leopard) or newer for this procedure to succeed!

Bundling

The next step is to create an application bundle. You'll need gtk-mac-bundler, so follow the instructions in the Gtk-OSX Wiki to download and install it.

Assuming that your local repository wound up in ~/gtk/src/gramps: You may need to edit ~/gtk/src/gramps/mac/Info.plist to update the version number and copyright information.

Now open a jhbuild shell and run the bundler:

 jhbuild shell
 chmod +w $PREFIX/lib/libpython2.7.dylib
 gtk-mac-bundler ~/gtk/src/gramps/mac/gramps.bundle

You'll have an application bundle named Gramps.app on your desktop.

Packaging

To make an uploadable disk image, create a folder named "Gramps-arch-version", replacing "arch" with either Intel or PPC and "version" with the current version number. Drag your app bundle to this directory. Open your build directory and copy (option-drag) the files "FAQ", "COPYING", "README", and "NEWS" to the Gramps folder you just made. Rename each to have a ".txt" extension so that they're readable with QuickLook. You might also rename COPYING to License.txt so that it's meaning is more clear to users who aren't familiar with the GPL.

Now open Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility and select File>New Image From Folder and select your folder, then approve the name and location. You'll have a dmg ready for distribution.

Good Luck!