CompileOnMac wiki page updated

[darryln]

Hey all, NormandC gave me edit privs, and I just finished a massive edit on https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/CompileOnMac. Let me know what you think, or better yet, request edit privs and do it yourself.

[chrisb]

Thanks, haven't tried it yet, but I will soon.

[darryln]

I verified the steps for Qt5 release build on a relatively clean Sierra install on MacbookPro8,3 (early 2011 17"). I did not verify Qt4 build, but I did get a segfault from having Qt4 installed during a Qt5 build. I put the Qt4 related stuff such as that in its own section. IMO 99.9% of people will want to build Qt5 release from HEAD to evaluate new features and bug fixes.

[Jee-Bee]

Do you have FreeCAD running with python 3.x or python 2.7.x?

[peterl94]

Thank you darryln!

Do you have FreeCAD running with python 3.x or python 2.7.x?

Python 2.7.x. PySide for python3 and qt5 still has some problems last I knew.

[darryln]

2.7.10 on the clean install (MacbookPro8,3)
2.7.13 on my daily driver (MacbookPro9,1)
Both running Sierra 10.12.5

[Kunda1]

2.7.10 on the clean install (MacbookPro8,3)
2.7.13 on my daily driver (MacbookPro9,1)
Both running Sierra 10.12.5

Thanks very much for your contributions @darryln !
If you ever feel in the spirit to contribute further, check out

• Bugtracker tickets tagged as MacOSX some of these need further testing, feedback, even fixing
• FreeCAD homebrew repo issue queue same as above

Cheers!