Part 3:
For building KDE based programs such as KStars on Windows and Mac, because many linux executables and libraries are not available on Mac or Windows, we use the the craft build system. We used to use homebrew for Mac builds of KStars, but while homebrew was really great for the more basic software packages, I found it to be rather unstable for building the more advanced KDE libraries. So a couple of years ago, I spent a lot of time transitioning to the Craft build system since it is designed for the task. So for the main KStars build, we use the craft build system. If you want to find out more about that, there is a lot of documentation here: community.kde.org/Craft . Just note that currently there are a bunch of programs that we need for KStars and INDI that the current craft recipes do not make, and there are a few more that don't make the libraries with the options that we need and I had to change the recipe. So, I did write a whole bunch of recipes for them and keep them in a separate repo. I am hoping that they eventually get integrated into the main craft recipes repo, but for now, they are separate until we can get somebody to look at what I did and work with me on perfecting them. But for now it works. My kstars-on-osx build script makes use of those alternate recipes.

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