Re: Issues with the macosx/Makefile

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Vincent,

Thanks for looking into these issues. The .dmg build environment on OS X
has changed a bit, and I'm not sure it's entirely documented, so I'll do my
best to describe it here.

The previous build used py2app and Macports and is described in
zenmap/install_scripts/macosx/README . We had repeated problems with this
system due to the need to maintain patches to remove troublesome
dependencies (iconv) that made it hard to build a cross-version package. It
seems like every release had at least a couple of bugs due to hard-coded
paths, changing directory structure, or dependency issues.

For the 7.01 release, I made this changelog entry:

> Switch to using gtk-mac-bundler and jhbuild for building the OS X
installer. This promises to reduce a lot of the problems we've had with
local paths and dependencies using the py2app and macports build system.
[Daniel Miller]

The files involved in this build system are:

* macosx/openssl.modules - a jhbuild moduleset defining how to fetch and
build OpenSSL.
* zenmap/install_scripts/macosx/zenmap.bundle - the gtk-mac-bundler
definition file for the Zenmap bundle.
* zenmap/install_scripts/macosx/launcher.sh - The launcher script that sets
up the environment for the Zenmap app
* zenmap/install_scripts/macosx/make-bundle.sh - the script called by the
macosx/Makefile to build the zenmap App bundle.

We still have to use Macports for libapr and libsvn used for nmap-update,
but since nobody uses or can use that system in its current state, it's not
really a problem.

Now we come to the part that I didn't document well. I think this is the
basic sequence:

curl https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk-osx/plain/gtk-osx-build-setup.sh | sh
~/.local/bin/jhbuild shell
jhbuild build python
jhbuild bootstrap
jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap
jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-core
jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-python
jhbuild -m macosx/openssl.modules build openssl
cd macosx
make

The Macports process in the README file is still needed to build libapr and
libsvn, but you have to be sure that macports is *not* in your path when
you go to build the package with "make."

References:

* https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/OSX/Building
* https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/OSX/Bundling



On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Vincent Dumont <contact () vincentdumont com>
wrote:

> Dear Daniel Miller,
>
> Due to the fact that openssl have installation issues on my mac, I am now
> configuring nmap to compile without openssl (I will work on it later).
> So I am now working on the PackageMaker feature of the makefile so it
> could produce the correct .mpkg package.
> But since PackageMaker is deprecated by Apple, I try to replace it with
> the three new tools provided (pkgbuild, productbuild and pkgutil).
>
> After digging into the Nmap suite, I was impressed to see that the
> Makefiles have issues with openssl (on mac), some paths are not good
> anymore (like python or gtk…), the architecture was not the right one for
> the macosx folder (should be determined automatically by the system) and so
> on…
> I have a lot of ideas to improve and update the mac os x version of Nmap,
> and I would be really glad to contribute to the community!
>
> I am having difficulties to compile the binaries and to produce the
> packages (.pkg and .mpkg).
>
> I am writing to you in the hope that you could help me to build the
> packages and correct the makefiles/scripts, so we can adapt a more
> customised designed user-interface to the Nmap Mac installer (.DMG).
> In fact, I would like to port the script into the Makefile located in the
> macosx/ folder so it will automatically generate the DMG via the Makefile.
>
> In the hope that you will like it, I have attached the script to create
> the .DMG.
> It requires a ‘build/‘ folder (with the final DMG content) and the
> ‘nmap.png' background image.
>
>
> It would be a great honour for me to work with you on this project.
> For more information, please feel free to contact me again and I would be
> glad to push the discussion further.
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and consideration,
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Vincent Dumont
> contact () vincentdumont com
> http://www.vincentdumont.com
>
>
>
> Le 13 févr. 2016 à 06:45, Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com> a écrit :
>
> Vincent,
>
> See the info in zenmap/install_scripts/macosx/ for instructions. I can
> send more info soon.
>
> Dan
> On Feb 12, 2016 3:35 PM, "Vincent Dumont" <contact () vincentdumont com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Nmap Developers,
> >
> > I am writing to you because I am having some difficulties during the
> > execution of the Makefile located in macosx/ . In fact, my OS is the OSX
> > 10.11.3 and I can’t even run the Makefile from the root of nmap7.01…
> > To dig a little bit more, I ran it under Ubuntu 14.04 in a VM (works fine
> > for configuring, making and making install nmap).
> > But the thing is, I am trying to produce a .dmg (a mac installer to be
> > short) via the macosx/Makefile, without success.
> >
> > After spending few hours on it, I am asking for your advice. If you
> > succeed in launching it and producing a .dmg file, I really would like to
> > know how you did it!
> > Having a functional Makefile on my machine would let me bring a new
> > interface into nmap installer (the .dmg) as show in that post :
> > https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/299
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your time,
> > Sincerely yours,
> >
> > Vincent Dumont
> > contact () vincentdumont com
> > http://www.vincentdumont.com
> >
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> >
> >
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