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Building pgModeler in MacOS with Homebrew

The official installation instructions for pgModeler recommends installing Xcode and the Enterprise DB distribution of Postgres to fulfill its build requirements. Luckily, Homebrew's got us covered!

  1. Checkout the source

    git clone https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler.git
    git checkout main
    
  2. Install dependencies with brew

    brew install postgresql@13 qt@6 libxml2 libpq
    
  3. Tweak build script (pgmodeler.pri)

    macx {
      PGSQL_LIB = /usr/local/opt/libpq/lib/libpq.dylib
      PGSQL_INC = /usr/local/opt/libpq/include
      XML_INC = /usr/local/opt/libxml2/include/libxml2
      XML_LIB = /usr/local/opt/libxml2/lib/libxml2.dylib
      INCLUDEPATH += $$PGSQL_INC $$XML_INC
    }
    

    Brew installs to a different path by default for Apple Silicon devices:

    macx {
      PGSQL_LIB = /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/lib/libpq.dylib
      PGSQL_INC = /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/include
      XML_INC = /opt/homebrew/opt/libxml2/include/libxml2
      XML_LIB = /opt/homebrew/opt/libxml2/lib/libxml2.dylib
      INCLUDEPATH += $$PGSQL_INC $$XML_INC
    }
    
  4. Build

    <PATH_TO_QT6_BIN>/qmake -r pgmodeler.pro
    make
    make install
    
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