Compilation on macOS

[Phil Thompson]

On 25/01/2021 05:53, Carlo Cabrera wrote:
> Last year, Brook Milligan submitted a patch for macOS. [1] Is there any
> chance that this could be included in the codebase?
> 
> The patch resolves problems with Homebrew packaging of QScintilla for
> Apple Silicon, where we use the non-standard installation prefix
> /opt/homebrew. [2] Without it, attempting to import the Qsci library in
> Python produces the following error:
> 
>    ==> /opt/homebrew/opt/python at 3.9/bin/python3 test.py
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File
> "/private/tmp/qscintilla2-test-20210123-5191-lvsige/test.py", line 1,
> in <module>
>        import PyQt5.Qsci
>    ImportError:
> dlopen(/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.9/site-packages/PyQt5/Qsci.so, 2):
> Library not loaded: @rpath/libqscintilla2_qt5.15.dylib
>      Referenced from: 
> /opt/homebrew/lib/python3.9/site-packages/PyQt5/Qsci.so
>      Reason: image not found
> 
> The patch also seems to have resolved issues encountered by MacPorts. 
> [3]
> 
> [1] 
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/qscintilla/2020-March/001444.html
> [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/69653
> [3] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/7790
> 
> P.S. Apologies if you’re getting this twice. I’ve resent it because I
> suspect my first message was caught by the spam filter.

You can pass qmake variables on the command line. There is no need for a 
patch.

Phil