Buidling OSCAR on macOS Sonoma (14.2.1)

[hisaotsu]

Hi,

If I am posting this article to the wrong board, please let me know.

I need your help or pointers to build OSCAR on macOS Sonoma (14.2.1), Intel chip.
If I follow the instruction, `qmake` will fail with the following error.

Code:

hisaotsu@ht-mbp build % ~/Qt5.12.8/5.12.8/clang_64/bin/qmake ../oscar/oscar.pro
Info: creating stash file /Users/hisaotsu/Documents/03_hg/OSCAR-code/build/.qmake.stash
Project ERROR: failed to parse default search paths from compiler output

After a bit of research, the above error is due to the bug in Qt5.12.8.
The bug is fixed in Qt 6.5.3.

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-117225

After building Qt 6.5.3, I ran the same, now `qmake` fails with a missing file.

Code:

Project MESSAGE: Setting up Translations & Help Transfers
/bin/bash: /Users/hisaotsu/Documents/03_hg/OSCAR-code/oscar/fix_5-12_UI_files.sh: No such file or directory

The cloned repository does not have `fix_5-12_UI_files.sh` file.

I have not had chance to verify if it compiles when I remove the `oscar/oscar.pro.user` file as suggested in the link below.

https://forum.qt.io/topic/144709/project...ler-output

My questions are:
1) How do I get by the above error with Qt 6.5.3?
2) Is there any reason that we have to stick with Qt 5.8.12?

Thank you in advance,
Hisao

[hisaotsu]

Correction -

> I have not had chance to verify if it compiles when I remove the `oscar/oscar.pro.user` file as suggested in the link > below.

By looking at the repository, oscar/oscar.pro.user it does not exist. I am taking back the above comment.

Hisao

[Crimson Nape]

We are using Qt 5.15.2 for the build. The BUILD-mac.md is out of date.

- Red