Cannot compile FreeCad on MacOS X

[chrisb]

I recall reading somewhere in here (noob faq I think) about noobs needing a certain minimum number of posts, and some other requirements. So if the temple priests will provide their blessings, sure, I would gladly do it.

You have topped the minimum number already by 100%: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6830

[darryln]

Thanks for the link. DM sent to yorik, NormandC, jmaustpc.

[federico.carminati]

Hello,
since I started this thread, I just wanted to say that with the following CMAKE command I am happily following the HEAD of FreeCAD since more than two months

cd .. ; rm -rf build ; mkdir build; cd build ; cmake -DBUILD_QT5=1 -DFREECAD_USE_EXTERNAL_KDL=1 -DBUILD_FEM_NETGEN=1 -DFREECAD_CREATE_MAC_APP=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/qt\@5.6/5.6.2/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/Applications -DBUILD_JTREADER=ON -DBUILD_SANDBOX=ON -DBUILD_TEMPLATE=ON -DFREECAD_USE_FREETYPE=OFF ../FreeCAD-git/


Best,

[microartisan]

It will be wonderful if anyone can upgrade the mac-brew compile wiki.

[federico.carminati]

With the latest version the command has changed a bit

cmake -DBUILD_QT5=1 -DFREECAD_USE_EXTERNAL_KDL=1 -DBUILD_FEM_NETGEN=1 -DFREECAD_CREATE_MAC_APP=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH='/usr/local/opt/qt/lib/cmake;/usr/local/opt/qtwebkit/lib/cmake' -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/Applications -DBUILD_JTREADER=ON -DBUILD_SANDBOX=ON -DBUILD_TEMPLATE=ON -DFREECAD_USE_FREETYPE=OFF -DMpidotH=/usr/local/include/mpi.h -DBUILD_ENABLE_CXX_STD=C++14 ../FreeCAD-git/

Best

[microartisan]

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-DBUILD_ENABLE_CXX_STD=C++14

@federico.carminati, c++14 is very userful option

and I create CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH by the command from https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/CompileOnMac

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ls -d $(brew list -1 | grep qt | tail -1 | xargs brew --cellar)/*/lib/cmake

it is my final cmake code :

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cmake \
-DBUILD_QT5=1 \
-DFREECAD_USE_EXTERNAL_KDL=1 \
-DBUILD_FEM_NETGEN=1 \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" \
-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH='/usr/local/Cellar/qtwebkit/5.212-72cfbd/lib/cmake' \
-DFREECAD_USE_FREETYPE=OFF \
-DBUILD_ENABLE_CXX_STD=C++14 \
../FreeCAD-git/

[federico.carminati]

This is nice! Careful that brew may want to update qt soon, so I use

-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PAT=/usr/local/opt/qt/lib/cmake

to be protected from change of qt version. best

[KritzelKratzel]

Jumping into this discussion with my own experiences in building FreeCAD on MacOSX El Capitan on my 11 year old SSD-pimped iMac. I ran into the QT5 not found issue as well. After installing al the Homebrew stuff as outlined in the Wiki I simply located QT5 manually and modified the CMake command line accordingly:

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cmake \
	-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" \
	-DBUILD_QT5=1 \
	-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/qt/5.11.0" \
	-DFREECAD_USE_EXTERNAL_KDL=1 \
	-DBUILD_FEM_NETGEN=1 \
	-DFREECAD_CREATE_MAC_APP=1 \
	-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="./.." \
	-DBUILD_ENABLE_CXX_STD=C++14 ../FreeCAD-git/

Nevertheless I got trouble with Matplotlib. CMake was unable to find it and after digging around for a while I found this very helpful hint https://penandpants.com/2012/02/24/install-python/:

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brew install pig-config
pip install matplotlib

After that small tweak CMake went through almost flawlessly and at the time of writing this message compilation is on the way at currently 76% progress. Cross your fingers...

Cheers,
KK

[chrisb]

Hi KK, welcome to the forum. Thanks for starting with a helping hand right away! If it works out, would you mind describing it in the wiki?

[KritzelKratzel]

Compilation successful so far, but Assembly2 failure still present

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########@iMac-2:~/misc/FreeCAD/build/bin $ ./FreeCAD
FreeCAD 0.18, Libs: 0.18R13962 (Git)
© Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2018
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Running the Python command 'importPart' failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/michael/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD/Mod/assembly2/importPart.py", line 137, in Activated
    QtGui.qApp.activeWindow(),

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'activeWindow'

I simply start FreeCAD, switch over to Assembly2 workbench, hit the "Import from another FreeCAD document" and nothing happens beside this error thrown in terminal window. Any ideas?