Is Goldendict available for Macports?

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 06:29:40 PDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Arno Hautala wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Gustavo Benedito Reis Costa wrote:
>>
>> I would like to compile and run GoldenDict via Macports via terminal.
>> I use Mac OS X 10.8.1 Mountain Lion.
>>
>> Is it available for Macports? If not, how to compile and install it?
>
> This may be best taken up with the GoldenDict developers. I took a
> quick look at their site and githup repository [1] and I don't see any
> sort of documentation relating to how to compile anything.

http://goldendict.org/buildfromgit.php

> In fact, their .gitignore file [2] specifically excludes the Makefile
> from being checked into the repository.

That's probably because one should use qmake first which generates
system-dependent makefiles, in the same way as ./configure does.

> I'm not familiar with the project, so maybe that's normal there, but
> it seems like they're making things difficult for others to compile
> their work.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/
> [2]: https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/blob/master/.gitignore

Mojca


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