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## The journey of building Cozy for macOS.md

      
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    The journey of building Cozy on macOS


Remove hombrew/macports completely or setup a clean macOS VM
Get the GTK+ setup shell script to setup the build environment. Everything which is installed from now on will be bundled with the macOS application later on: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK+/OSX/Building

./gtk-osx-build-setup.sh
alias jhbuild="PATH=gtk-prefix/bin:$PATH jhbuild"
jhbuild bootstrap
jhbuild build python3

cd gtk/inst/bin
ln -s python3 python
ln -s python3-config python-config

jhbuild shell
cd ~/gtk/inst/lib/python3.6/site-packages/
python easy_install.py six

jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap meta-gtk-osx-gtk3
jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-python-gtk3
jhbuild build gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-libav gst-plugins-ugly
jhbuild build adwaita-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
# install all dependencies needed by Cozy
pip install peewee meson

Copy libmagic.dylib to gtk folder
Install Cozy to ~/gtk/inst/ using meson/ninja
For theme support:

jhbuild build gsettings-desktop-schemas


Copy share/misc/magic to the gtk folder from other machine (e.g. homebrew installation)
Use pyinstaller to build a macOS Application

stack_size error

Drop to shell then:
find . -name "Makefile" -exec sed -i '' 's+-Wl,-stack_size,1000000 ++g' {} \;
libxml2 error

Drop to shell then:
cp ~/gtk/inst/lib/python2.7/sitepackages/* ~/gtk/inst/lib/python3.6/
foreign struct converter error

Add cairo to pyinstaller hidden imports.