SparkleShare/SparkleShare/Mac

Building on macOS

You can build SparkleShare from source or download the SparkleShare bundle.

Installing build requirements

Install Xcode from the macOS App Store, or download it manually. Install Xamarin Studio.

The required git binaries are now built automatically. For doing this and for building the distribution release, where Mono libraries are merged into SparkleShare, we need the packes autoconf and pkg-config. You can install these in several ways, here's how it's done using Homebrew:

brew install autoconf automake libtool pkg-config

Building

There are three build configurations available:

• Debug

  with debug symbols and having the Symbol DEBUG defined. Requires an installed Mono framework.

• Release

  without debug symbols. Requires an installed Mono framework.

• ReleaseDist

  without debug symbols, the Mono framework is linked statically into the binary, so it does not require an installed Mono framework.

To build any of these configurations,

• open ./SparkleShare.sln in Xamarin Studio
• select the SparkleShare.Mac project in the Solution view
• select the required configuration
• select Build, then "Build SparkleShare.Mac" from the menu

To build SparkleShare from a command line (e.g. for using a CI system), use this command:

/Applications/Xamarin\ Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/mdtool -v build "--configuration:ReleaseDist" "./SparkleShare/Mac/SparkleShare.sln"

Resetting SparkleShare settings

rm -Rf ~/SparkleShare
rm -Rf ~/.config/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare

Uninstalling

Simply remove the SparkleShare bundle.