Marble/MacCompiling

Marble can be built for macOS (originally Mac OS X) platforms. Currently, as of 4th January 2017, however, there are no current or supported official binaries available. Patches are available that support building portable Marble app bundles and the DMG packaging for macOS are available on Phabricator; they have not yet been imported in to the main repository.

Prerequisites

Installing Marble requires the following libraries and utilities available on your system:

• Xcode, a suitable version for your operating system, along with its command-line tools, if your Xcode package (as in most recent builds for 10.7 and up) does not include them.

Note

A paid 'developer' subscription is unnecessary to compile Marble.

Note

You will need to accept the Xcode license agreement before you compile Marble on macOS. A license text is available, as well as the choice to accept it, from the following command, once Xcode has been installed:

sudo xcodebuild -license

Administrator privileges are necessary for xcodebuild to install the symbolic links pointing to these command line utilities.

• CMake, a version greater than 3.0, as specified in the main CMakeLists.txt file; this can be obtained as from either a binary from the project's website, the recommended method, or from a package manager, such as Homebrew, MacPorts, or Fink.

• A Qt 4 or 5 SDK. A version from their website is preferred, and is required if you want to end up with a portable app bundle; package maintainers do not typically support the use of their libraries to create an app bundle, and often do not have working deploy utilities.

If you wish to compile the KDE version, marble-kde, then you will need extra KDE libraries installed on your computer:

• KDE Foundation 5 (KF5).

Compilation

marble-qt (without KF5)

Following this guide, retrieve the source code by tarball or from the anonymous git repository.

As configure flags you can use:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release -DWITH_KF5=FALSE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/Applications/ ../Marble

If you want to create a distributable disk image see Marble/MacPackaging