~~Title: EFL on Mac OS X~~ ~~NOCACHE~~

If you are coming here for Enlightenment (the desktop manager) on Mac OS X... sorry but Enlightenment is not supported on Mac OS X... and it is not planned in a near future (but any help is very welcomed).

The Enlightenment Foundation's projects mostly targets Linux platforms, therefore not everything work on Mac OS X works the first time. This is due to: * the specificities of the Operating System (kernel+userland); * the fact there are a very few Enlightened OS X users :-\

This document explains how to install the EFL which are key projects to install anything else made by the Enlightenment Foundation.

====== Mac OS X Homebrew Packages (for EFL USERS) ======

Homebrew is a package manager for Mac OS X. See at http://brew.sh how to install Homebrew if it isn't already installed. Then, just execute:

brew update # To make sure you have the latest versions brew install efl # To install EFL

And that's it! Enjoy your freshly distributed EFL :-). The distributed version of EFL is [[http://braumeister.org/formula/efl|1.20.4]].

====== Manual Installation (for EFL DEVELOPERS) ======

===== Setting up the environment =====

You need to have the OS X CLT (Command-Line Tools) first, then install the EFL dependancies. The easiest way is by using a package manager. [[http://brew.sh|Homebrew]] is assumed to be the package manager.

The CTL are not bundled with Xcode. Don't assume that they are installed if Xcode is installed.

To install the CTL, you should process as it follows: * download the latest version of Xcode on the Mac App Store; * run ''xcode-select --install'' in a terminal to install the CLT.

If you want to have the very latest version of EFL, here is the procedure: * install the dependancies; * configure the source; * compile the sources and install them.

===== Dependancies with Homebrew =====

brew install autoconf automake libtool autoconf-archive gettext check pkg-config luajit jpeg freetype fribidi fontconfig giflib libtiff glib dbus libsndfile bullet libspectre libraw librsvg poppler gstreamer gst-plugins-good pulseaudio brew migrate dbus mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/dbus/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

You need to add ''autopoint'' to your ''$PATH'' if you want to use gettext. Write the line below in your ''$HOME/.profile'' or similar file.

export PATH="$(brew --prefix gettext)/bin:$PATH"

===== OpenSSL handling =====

Since Mac OS X El Capitan, Apple does not distribute OpenSSL headers anymore. It is necessary to install OpenSLL manually through homebrew:

brew install openssl brew link openssl --force

and to add flags to your bashrc (or equivalent):

export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include $CFLAGS" export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib $LDFLAGS"

===== Modifying your linker flags =====

This step is required if you wish to build Mac OS X App Bundles (i.e. ''.app''). Otherwise, you can safely ignore this section.

''osx-packager'' is a python package initially developed at Open Wide to generate App Bundles and/or DMG files for easy distribution. It is available at [[https://git.enlightenment.org/devs/jayji/osx-packager.git]].

To make it work, you MUST provide custom linker flags:

export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names ${LDFLAGS}"

===== Configuring, Building and Installing EFL =====

Installing dependancies on OS X is painful, but now you did it (congrats'), you can grab the sources from the git repository:

git clone https://git.enlightenment.org/enlightenment/efl.git # Get the sources cd efl # Go to repository you cloned ./autogen.sh --disable-cxx-bindings make -j $(nproc) # Compile sudo make -j $(nproc) install # Install

======= Additional Resources =======

  • Enlightenment Developer Days 2016 Slides (EFL & Mac OS X slides): https://phab.enlightenment.org/F36470.
  • Internal Wiki Page. Contains “legacy” information: https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/osx/.