Oh I see, I had not tested the dmg.

I have an idea that I am testing. running the cmake version off of the already run emerge version directories for those kde files that we need. It already had to make those things. might be good to use them.

Rob checks this out:


does that help?

I am not sure, would it still run because qt5 is installed elsewhere?

I think from github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/27437 that what I've found does not help at all :(
back to drawing board...

Thanks for looking into it!

ok I have to head out now. I hope to find a solution to this. It may be that we can somehow load the emerge version into Qt Creator. Maybe also we could base the cmake version off the emerge version. I don't know. but I do know that installing the brew qt5 is not fun, especially when there are more errors later.

There must be a way, I'm looking into this now.

OK- the emerge works on my machine. I am going to check in what works on that path so I have a point to revert and compare to see if I missed something migrating to the separate directories.

I think we should try to keep one script - there is so much that is in common from one to the next, and I am not ready to refactor.

I agree, especially if we can use the information from the emerge script to make the cmake version work.

cool beans, it was just an idea (a silly one) I had.

I got closer by trying this in the build environment script that is called by build-kstars. I don't think I have cracked it yet though.

export ECM_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/share/ECM/"
export KF5CoreAddons_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5CoreAddons/"
export KF5ConfigWidgets_DIR= "~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5ConfigWidgets/"
export KF5Config_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5Config/"
export KF5Crash_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5Crash/"
export KF5DocTools_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5DocTools/"
export KF5WidgetsAddons_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5WidgetsAddons/"
export KF5NewStuff_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5NewStuff/"
export KF5I18n_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5I18n/"
export KF5KIO_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5KIO/"
export KF5XmlGui_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5XmlGui/"
export KF5Plotting_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5Plotting/"
export KF5Notifications_DIR="~/IndiRoot/kstars-emerge/lib/cmake/KF5Notifications/"