The following steps should enable you to build the installation bundle which is described as the hybrid approach here.
The Recoll.app application is built with Qt Creator on MacOS Big Sur, using the .pro
files which were originally set up for Windows (qtgui/recoll.pro, windows/qmk/recollindex.pro,
windows/qmk/librecoll.pro). Xapian is built as a static library, using its own regular build
scripts, and macdeployqt is used to produce the .dmg
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Install Qt creator and Xcode. See the Qt Web site for this. https://www.qt.io/product/development-tools
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Create a directory named Recoll in your home (or elsewhere, but there may be a few scripts to patch later on. I’ll try to fix this in the future).
cd ~/Recoll git clone https://framagit.org/medoc92/recoll git clone https://framagit.org/medoc92/recoll-antiword antiword
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Download and extract xapian-core 1.4.24 into the top directory (~/Recoll). We now build the Xapian library with Qcreator/Qmake.
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Build antiword.
cd antiword make -f Makefile.Linux
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Prepare recoll
cd ~/Recoll/recoll cp src/common/autoconfig-mac.h to src/common/autoconfig.h cp src/qtgui/recoll.pro.in src/qtgui/recoll.pro
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Build:
If your Qt version is not 6.4.2 (quite probable), you need to edit a few files and replace the 6_4_2 string where it appears:
packaging/mac/make-recoll-dmg.sh:qcbuildloc=Qt_6_4_2_for_macOS src/windows/qmkrecoll/recollindex.pro: QCBUILDLOC=Qt_6_4_2_for_macOS src/windows/qmkrecoll/recollq.pro: QCBUILDLOC=Qt_6_4_2_for_macOS src/qtgui/recoll.pro: QCBUILDLOC=Qt_6_4_2_for_macOS
Start Qt Creator and load the following project files. The qmake .pro files used for building on the Mac were initially created for Windows, which is the reason for their locations.
src/windows/qmkrecoll/libxapian.pro src/windows/qmkrecoll/librecoll.pro src/windows/qmkrecoll/recollindex.pro src/windows/qmkrecoll/recollq.pro src/qtgui/recoll.pro
You need to build libxapian.pro and librecoll.pro first then the rest in any order.
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Build the .dmg: run recoll/src/packaging/mac/make-recoll-dmg.sh in the top directory (~/Recoll/). Some local adjustments may be needed in the script, depending on the Qt version and installation location.
This should give you a .dmg