Building MikTeX for MacOS

[memcat2]

• I have read the MiKTeX Contributing Guidelines

• I am a complete newbie to building MikTeX, so therefore the reported issue may be trivial to resolve.

• I realised that the MikTeX package for MacOS on miktex.org is older than the one for Windows.

• So I've tried to build MikTeX for MacOS according to this link.

• I downloaded the miktex-23.10 source and I am running macOS 14.0.

• When running the build script, I get the following output, and I don't have any clue how to fix the issue:

% cmake ../miktex-23.10
-- The C compiler identification is AppleClang 14.0.3.14030022
-- The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 14.0.3.14030022
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "2.39.2 (Apple Git-143)")
-- Found BISON: /usr/bin/bison (found version "2.3")
-- Found FLEX: /usr/bin/flex (found version "2.6.4")
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1110 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5", but
CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5" with any of
the following names:

Qt5Config.cmake
qt5-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "Qt5" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "Qt5_DIR"
to a directory containing one of the above files. If "Qt5" provides a
separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

[klefo0]

You can read on this link
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40081327/macos-sierra-cmake-failed-with-qt5#comment87998134_40081874

[memcat2]

You can read on this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40081327/macos-sierra-cmake-failed-with-qt5#comment87998134_40081874

Hi klefo0 - I looked at the link, but as a complete newbie, I am lost. I just followed the build instructions here.

It seems as if there is something missing in the build instructions, but I can't figure out what.

[klefo0]

Hi @memcat2, you can see CMake throw error said

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1110 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5", but
CMake did not find one.

In short, CMake not found Qt5 library on your machine.
So, at the link i gave you, it shows a way to help you install Qt5.

[memcat2]

Hi @memcat2, you can see CMake throw error said

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1110 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5", but
CMake did not find one.

In short, CMake not found Qt5 library on your machine. So, at the link i gave you, it shows a way to help you install Qt5.

Hi - thanks. I am not sure, whether Qt5 is not installed: I followed the installation instructions on the MikTeX page and it contains the command "brew install qt". When I enter "brew --prefix qt5", the output is "/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5", which seems to be right (the folder exists & contains a substantial amount of files). Or is there anything wrong with this?

[klefo0]

@memcat2 the brew install qt would install newest QT version (is QT 6) so you need to input this brew install [email protected]

[Behinder]

Compiling Miktex with QT6 won't work and it does not have qtscript. Building for arm64 wiith qt511 also not work

[edocevoli]

Since this is not a bug per se, I will move this to discussions.

[Behinder]

If building fails then definitely it's a bug