MacOSX Development

  1. MacOSX Development
    1. Installing the essentials
      1. Installing Bazaar
      2. Installing PyQt
      3. Required Python modules
    2. How to get the code?
    3. How to run the code
    4. Troubleshooting

This page describes the information you need for development of calibre under MacOSX 10.5 Leopard.

Installing the essentials

The attached build-* scripts are scripts to build various dependencies from source on OS X Tiger. They should work with minor adjustments on Leopard. To run them, first download the source of the package and extract it into the ~/build directory. Then run the script with /bin/bash /path/to/script (take a look in the build files and ensure that the paths are correct).

Installing Bazaar

Go and get the actual release of Bazaar on ?bzr Download page.
?Bazaar 1.5 works well for MacOSX 10.5.

After installing Bazaar you can go on and get the code.

Installing PyQt

To be able to run the code, install ?PyQt from Riverbank. Note that it requires that you have installed ?SIP and ?qt-mac-opensource-src-*.tar.gz.

Required Python modules

?Mechanize

How to get the code?

  1. Open terminal.app
  2. Where do you want to develop? Choose a directory, e.g. ~/Documents/calibredev/ - Change to this directory.
  3. Now get the actual calibre code from bzr. Execute in terminal.app: 
       bzr co https://code.launchpad.net/~kovid/calibre/trunk calibre
  4. You will find a new directory there: "calibre" - inside is all you need.

How to run the code

In terminal, change directory to where you checked out the code and run the command "make" and voila, hopefully you got something working for you.

Troubleshooting

On OSX (and Windows) you may get a Memory Error while trying to checkout the code. In which case locate the file socket.py in your python installation and change line 308 to 

recv_size = min(65636, max(self._rbufsize, left))

When running make on the command line this message occur: 

/bin/sh: pyrcc4: command not found
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'pyrcc4 -o images_rc.py images.qrc' returned non-zero exit status 127

First, have you installed PyQt? Yes? Then... The path to pyrcc4 has to be set in PYTHONPATH. Follow the instructions on this page: ?How to define environment variables so that MacOS X applications can see them 

ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

Check your terminal settings. Terminal -> Preferences -> Settings -> Advanced -> International ->set LANG environmental variable on startup.

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