MacOSX Deployment

Announcement: Experimental Page

With experimental information

Compile and build MacOSX version for deploying on other macs

1. Compile Scribus from (SVN or SVN HEAD) using Scribus and Homebrew
2. Use builtin Qt app to create dmg

   ~/Qt/5.x.x/clang_64/bin/macdeployqt scribus-dev.app -dmg

3. Convert dmg to read/write via CLI

   hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o scribus-dev scribus-dev.dmg

4. Mount scribus-dev.dmg volume

   open scribus-dev.dmg

5. Create symlink to /Applications

   cd /Volumes/bin:scribus-dev

   ln -s /Applications ./Applications

6. Unmount scribus-dev volume

   umount /Volumes/bin:scribus-dev

Relevant

• Creating a dmg