Verify OSX information

[profanity-im]

Verify OSX information

[jubalh]

For example, for https://profanity-im.github.io/install.html:

• I'm not sure whether Macports is still a thing
• If it is I'm not sure whether its up to date or whether people should use brew always

For https://profanity-im.github.io/build.html:
I'm not sure if

openssl is keg-only, which means it is not symlinked into /usr/local therefore pkg-config will fail when detecting the library and the build will fail. In order to fix this we need to add the openssl path to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

is still needed.

[jubalh]

@optmzr since you work on osx travis maybe you also have knowledge about osx that could be useful here?

[DebXWoody]

It seems xcode is required: xcode-select --install. I'm not sure whether it is required to build the application or for brew / git.

Based on the description on the website, I installed:

brew install autoconf autoconf-archive automake libtool pkg-config glib gnutls
gpgme libotr libstrophe openssl ossp-uuid readline terminal-notifier

For OMEMO is necessary to install libsignal-protocol-c as well

brew install libsignal-protocol-c

Added openssl and libffi to pkg-config PATH

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/opt/
libffi/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

Example of the configure setup I used

./configure --enable-notifications --enable-omemo --enable-pgp

The list of installed brew formula

$ brew list
adns                    glib                    libffi
libtasn1                ossp-uuid               sqlite
autoconf                gmp                     libgcrypt               libtool
                p11-kit                 terminal-notifier
autoconf-archive        gnupg                   libgpg-error
libunistring            pcre                    unbound
automake                gnutls                  libksba                 libusb
                pinentry                xz
check                   gpgme                   libotr                  nettle
                pkg-config
gdbm                    libassuan               libsignal-protocol-c    npth
                python
gettext                 libevent                libstrophe              openssl
                readline

[wstrm]

Thanks for the great pointers @DebXWoody!

For the Travis CI job, I ended up with:

Brewfile.travis

brew 'autoconf'
brew 'autoconf-archive'
brew 'automake'
brew 'check'
brew 'curl'
brew 'expat'
brew 'glib'
brew 'gnutls'
brew 'gpgme'
brew 'gtk+'
brew 'libffi'
brew 'libotr'
brew 'libsignal-protocol-c'
brew 'libstrophe'
brew 'libtool'
brew 'ncurses'
brew 'openssl'
brew 'ossp-uuid'
brew 'pkg-config'
brew 'readline'

Resulting in:

brew install brew autoconf autoconf-archive automake check curl expat glib gnutls gpgme \
    gtk+ libffi libotr libsignal-protocol-c libstrophe libtool ncurses openssl ossp-uuid \
    pkg-config readline

Some of these dependencies (like gnutls and readline) are redundant, but I added them for good measure.

To make sure that the "keg-only" dependencies are used instead of the system defaults, I point pkg-config in the right direction with:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/expat/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/curl/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

Some of these aren't needed either, and the system dependencies (like curl) worked just fine, but I feel like it's better to use the latest from Homebrew instead.

[jubalh]

So this means the website is good and I should close this? :)

[wstrm]

I think we should add the additional PKG_CONFIG_PATHs too, just in case :)

[jubalh]

Awesome! Thanks!