serialplot_OS_X_port

OS X port of hyOzd / serialplot

An OS X port of SerialPlot - Realtime Plotting Software

OS X binaries and scripts relating to hyOzd/serialplot

The application works on OS X 10.13.6 (High Sierra). It is untested on other OS X verisons.

Full documentation on the OS X build is on Porting serialplot to OS X. A shorter HOWTO is here HOWTO: Port serialplot to OS X.

Built on:

• OS X 10.13.6
• Using QtCreator 4.5
• Using Qt5
• Using Qwt.6.2.0
• Qt5 and Qwt (6.2.0) frameworks are bundled into the application bundle using the script, otool_serialplot_qwt_cocoa.sh

Running the script otool_serialplot_qwt_cocoa.sh

Important Note: Only run this script when building the application - it is not for general use.

• Run from the directory containing serialplot.app,
  • unless you change app_bundle_path to the full path, i.e. /Users/username/qtcodeworkspace/serialplot
• It expects the application bundle to be called serialplot
  • unless you change application to a different name
• Create the serialplot.app/Contents/Frameworks directory manually
  • if you plan to copy qwt.framework over manually first to serialplot.app/Contents/Frameworks (i.e. the following step)
  • The directory will be created automatically (by the script) if it does not exist
• Copy qwt.framework over manually first to serialplot.app/Contents/Frameworks, and run install_name_tool -change qwt.framework/Versions/6/qwt @rpath/qwt.framework/Versions/6/qwt serialplot.app/Contents/MacOS/serialplot
  • unless you set do_qwt_copy to true.
  • You may need to change path_qwt if the qwt source directory doesn't share the same parent folder as the directory containing the application bundle
• Copy the Qt frameworks over manually first to serialplot.app/Contents/Frameworks,
  • unless you set do_copy to true.
• Leave do_id as false
  • Setting the -id causes the application to crash (reason unknown)
• Leave do_qwt as true
  • This sets qwt.framework to point to the bundled Qt frameworks
• Leave do_cocoa as true
  • This copies over libqcocoa.dylib - if do_copy is true
  • This sets the Qt frameworks to point to libqcocoa.dylib
• do_core does nothing (yet)
  • It was meant for a test to leave QtCore.framework unbundled - to prevent the crash caused by the unbundled libqcocoa.dylib
  • Unimplemented