Building on Mac OS

[brentb]

I found a code issue that I’d like to fix, and so I’m trying to build shotcut on mac os. I have a new install of Mojave (10.14), with XCode and a basic macports environment installed.

I found the shotcut/scripts/build-shotcut.sh script and am using that to set things up. I’ve spent hours writing this post, as short as it is.

Bug report: the build-shotcut.sh misreports ‘sox’ as optional, when it is required. This is when it is checking ‘disable-sox’, reports it as optional, then sets DODIE=1.

For MacPorts, I had to install the following packages: sudo port install gcc5 pkg-config autoconf automake libtool nasm xorg-util-macros fftw-3-single eigen3 libsdl2 libtheora jack libomp sox

The above has fixed most of the problems I encountered, but the problem I haven’t yet been able to get around is involving Qt. The shotcut/src/src.pro file adds ‘webkitwidgets’ to the build. This library hasn’t been included in Qt since 5.5, but shotcut looks to be built against 5.9 (5.9.7, specifically). Big question: what setup is done regarding this library for the automated builds? Is another version of Qt actually used?

I tried building against Qt 5.5, but the shotcut project requires at least 5.9.x. Any hints?

[GordC]

Follow the instructions from here, including the instruction to utilize Shotcut’s build of Qt 5.9.7 which includes QtWebKit.

[brentb]

Thank you, I hadn’t seen that page yet.
I can probably get it going now.

Edit: With shotcut’s 5.9.7, qmake doesn’t run. Shotcut’s distro is missing the 5.9.7/clang_64/bin/qt.conf file, but copying that from an original 5.9.7 distro fixed the problem.

The rest of my build succeeded, and created the two .dmg files OK.