May I ask for help compiling Inkscape 0.92.4 on MacOSX 10.13.6 here? If not, please direct me to the correct place.
I've followed the instructions at this page up until "5. And build inkscape" without any problem, but there everything collapses.
I'm sorry, I don't even know what I should tell you to help you help me. (This is why I have put off moving up from 0.92.2 for so long. There isn't a pre-compiled Mac version any higher than that. At least, I couldn't find one.)
Generally when you compile a software and it fails, in the terminal output is showed what went wrong (and in the log file).
Anyway you can use Macport to install 0.92.4, that at the end compiles everything from source, or you can install the beta1, it is a bit unstable but usable:
CMake Error: The source directory "/opt/local/etc" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory
ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory
CMake Error: The source directory "/opt/local" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
CMake Error: The source directory "/macports" does not exist.
CMake Error: The source directory "/opt/local/etc/macports" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
I don't want enter in the compilation's details, but I would like to point out that you don't need to compile Inkscape at all. Install all the requirements for Mac Ports and just run:
sudo port install inkscape
It will build Inkscape within the XQuark environment, it will not have the same aspect of the native apps but at least runs and works.
Yeah, I saw those, but I didn't know what to do about them. . . . For instance, when I do a system search, CMakeLists.txt appears in *many* directories. Which one should I be in when I'm running the CMake line in the compiling instructions? I couldn't figure out which.
Anyone willing to go into the details of compiling with me, in private messaging if it isn't appropriate for this forum?
I am not comfortable with betas; I need to have things a little more stable than that. (Call me boring and unadverturous if you like, but there it is. . . .)
Well, you might try answering my question about which directory I should be in. I understand just fine what the errors are saying, but that doesn't tell me what to do about them.
I didn't use the page you just posted because the Inkscape Wiki sent me to the page I posted originally. Perhaps it should point to the page you just posted. Even if I knew there was another set of instructions (I didn't), how was I to know which to use? Why didn't you post the link to that page after my first post?
And I did install Macports and was trying to install Inkscape using it! The blasted Inkscape Wiki says I have to compile it. See step 5.
I would have appreciated a little bit more of an attempt to help me rather than repeated attempts to just dismiss me.
Thank you for posting the other link. I'm trying it now.
Okay, I've tried it. It doesn't seem to have worked.
Netscape 0.92.4 did load. Sort of. It didn't load the fonts I had, so my file looks funky. I am not going to poke around to see what else it isn't doing.
While I was starting up it, the attached text appeared in a separate window of the Terminal. (This was just during start up of Inkscape. I hadn't opened the application by double-clicking on a file.) A whole slew of parser errors. While I do know what those are, I do not know what to do about them.
Betas are fine and serve a real purpose, but I am not a software tester. So I'm not going to the beta. Then I wouldn't even know if the errors are a problem with the program or a problem with my installation of it.
Help me or not, as you please.
[On edit: Sorry, it looks like I did not get the complete text from the window in the Terminal. I've uploaded the complete text now.]
I have been using Inkscape from MacPort for a very long time, it is quite trivial to install and doesn't require any particular skill, it is the easiest way to get that version on Mac. What you missed is that Macports has the "recipe" to compile it by itself so you don't need to do anything else than just use the command "sudo port install inkscape", if you had issues using macport to install it, is beacuse you changed something in the configuration environment that you had better to not modify at all.
My suggestion is to clean up everything (probably you must uninstall completely macport) and use the guide I gave you that works 100% and doesn't require any particular skills.
What I have been at pains to explain is that I am using instruction given within the Inkscape wiki itself.
That there are two competing sets of instructions and I ended up with the wrong one because I was directed to that one rather than the correct one is not my fault. It certainly doesn't justify your treatment of me. I stated what set of instructions I was using from the beginning; someone should've seen that there was a competing set of instructions and done something about it rather than just brushing me aside because a good set of instructions (which I clearly did not know existed) did exist.
I'll try a reinstall. I doubt, however, I will be back here again, regardless of the result. This is the specific place beginners are supposed to ask questions. We shouldn't get grief for being beginners.
Compiling a software is an advanced task that requires some advanced knowledge, and as you experienced by yourself even following a guide doesn't guarantee the result, it is not absolutely a beginner topic. You ended up in that page for some reason, but as a matter of fact that wiki is tagged as "Developer Documentation", while for the end user the right page to follow is this one:
And I am just trying to help you getting Inkscape through the right guide that I am personally tested since Yosemite through Mojave because I heavily use Macport to have some GNU applications I like to have.
I think that you want the latest stable version available which is unfortanately unavailable as standard OSX bundle, isn't it?
Beginners' Questions Compiling on MacOSX 10.13.6?
Inkscape.org
May I ask for help compiling Inkscape 0.92.4 on MacOSX 10.13.6 here? If not, please direct me to the correct place.
I've followed the instructions at this page up until "5. And build inkscape" without any problem, but there everything collapses.
I'm sorry, I don't even know what I should tell you to help you help me. (This is why I have put off moving up from 0.92.2 for so long. There isn't a pre-compiled Mac version any higher than that. At least, I couldn't find one.)
Thank you for any help you can give me!
Generally when you compile a software and it fails, in the terminal output is showed what went wrong (and in the log file).
Anyway you can use Macport to install 0.92.4, that at the end compiles everything from source, or you can install the beta1, it is a bit unstable but usable:
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0beta2/mac-os-x/1010-1015/dl/
Well, I've got it, but it's rather lengthy. (I don't know when to stop trying and get help!) I've attached it as a text file.
And I am using Macport (see the link labeled "this page"). It says to compile it in step 5, which is the one I am having trouble with.
Thank you!
These are your errors:
I don't want enter in the compilation's details, but I would like to point out that you don't need to compile Inkscape at all. Install all the requirements for Mac Ports and just run:
It will build Inkscape within the XQuark environment, it will not have the same aspect of the native apps but at least runs and works.
Yeah, I saw those, but I didn't know what to do about them. . . . For instance, when I do a system search, CMakeLists.txt appears in *many* directories. Which one should I be in when I'm running the CMake line in the compiling instructions? I couldn't figure out which.
Anyone willing to go into the details of compiling with me, in private messaging if it isn't appropriate for this forum?
I am not comfortable with betas; I need to have things a little more stable than that. (Call me boring and unadverturous if you like, but there it is. . . .)
Thank you!
If you are unable to understand the log errors doesn't make sense continuing with compiling, while you can install it through Macports.
Whay aren't you following this page:
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-0.92.4/mac-os-x/macports/dl/
Well, you might try answering my question about which directory I should be in. I understand just fine what the errors are saying, but that doesn't tell me what to do about them.
I didn't use the page you just posted because the Inkscape Wiki sent me to the page I posted originally. Perhaps it should point to the page you just posted. Even if I knew there was another set of instructions (I didn't), how was I to know which to use? Why didn't you post the link to that page after my first post?
And I did install Macports and was trying to install Inkscape using it! The blasted Inkscape Wiki says I have to compile it. See step 5.
I would have appreciated a little bit more of an attempt to help me rather than repeated attempts to just dismiss me.
Thank you for posting the other link. I'm trying it now.
Okay, I've tried it. It doesn't seem to have worked.
Netscape 0.92.4 did load. Sort of. It didn't load the fonts I had, so my file looks funky. I am not going to poke around to see what else it isn't doing.
While I was starting up it, the attached text appeared in a separate window of the Terminal. (This was just during start up of Inkscape. I hadn't opened the application by double-clicking on a file.) A whole slew of parser errors. While I do know what those are, I do not know what to do about them.
Betas are fine and serve a real purpose, but I am not a software tester. So I'm not going to the beta. Then I wouldn't even know if the errors are a problem with the program or a problem with my installation of it.
Help me or not, as you please.
[On edit: Sorry, it looks like I did not get the complete text from the window in the Terminal. I've uploaded the complete text now.]
I have been using Inkscape from MacPort for a very long time, it is quite trivial to install and doesn't require any particular skill, it is the easiest way to get that version on Mac. What you missed is that Macports has the "recipe" to compile it by itself so you don't need to do anything else than just use the command "sudo port install inkscape", if you had issues using macport to install it, is beacuse you changed something in the configuration environment that you had better to not modify at all.
My suggestion is to clean up everything (probably you must uninstall completely macport) and use the guide I gave you that works 100% and doesn't require any particular skills.
What I have been at pains to explain is that I am using instruction given within the Inkscape wiki itself.
That there are two competing sets of instructions and I ended up with the wrong one because I was directed to that one rather than the correct one is not my fault. It certainly doesn't justify your treatment of me. I stated what set of instructions I was using from the beginning; someone should've seen that there was a competing set of instructions and done something about it rather than just brushing me aside because a good set of instructions (which I clearly did not know existed) did exist.
I'll try a reinstall. I doubt, however, I will be back here again, regardless of the result. This is the specific place beginners are supposed to ask questions. We shouldn't get grief for being beginners.
Compiling a software is an advanced task that requires some advanced knowledge, and as you experienced by yourself even following a guide doesn't guarantee the result, it is not absolutely a beginner topic. You ended up in that page for some reason, but as a matter of fact that wiki is tagged as "Developer Documentation", while for the end user the right page to follow is this one:
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-0.92.4/mac-os-x/macports/dl/
And I am just trying to help you getting Inkscape through the right guide that I am personally tested since Yosemite through Mojave because I heavily use Macport to have some GNU applications I like to have.
I think that you want the latest stable version available which is unfortanately unavailable as standard OSX bundle, isn't it?