Picard Qt/Mac Install Guide

Notes

• CAUTION: Proceed at your own risk. This isn't official yet and is not supported. This document is provided purely for informational purposes and should not be used if you don't know what you're doing.
• This guide will not help you to compile picard with fingerprinting support. If you don't need it, you can skip installing of expat, libofa and ffmpeg. Otherwise you will need to edit build.cfg after running "python setup.py config". -- LukasLalinsky 06:22, 06 June 2007 (UTC)

Installation Steps

Python

• download and open python-2.5.1c1-macosx.dmg [17.9 MB]
• run MacPython.mpkg and install Python

Qt4

• download and install ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-mac-opensource-4.2.3.dmg [54.0 MB]

PyQt4

• download and extract sip-4.6.tar.gz [400 kB]

python configure.py  
make
sudo make install

• download and extract PyQt-mac-gpl-4.2.tar.gz [5.4 MB]

python configure.py 
make
sudo make install

Mutagen

• download and extract mutagen-1.10.1.tar.gz [484 kB]

python setup.py build 
sudo python setup.py install

LibDiscID

• download and extract libdiscid-0.1.1.tar.gz [325 kB]

./configure 
make
sudo make install

Expat2

• download and extract expat-2.0.0.tar.gz [450 kB]

./configure --prefix=/usr/local 
make buildlib
sudo make installlib

LibOfa

• download and extract libofa-0.9.3.tar.gz (direct link) [376 kB]
• download and extract libtool-1.5.22.tar.gz [2.8 MB]
• copy ltmain.sh from the libtool dir to the libofa dir (overwrite)
• (if you tried configuring libofa without copying the libtool's ltmain.sh file, run make clean]

./configure --prefix=/usr/local 
make
sudo make install

ffmpeg

• You need either Fink or SVN to install ffmpeg. Instructions here: http://stephenjungels.com/jungels.net/articles/ffmpeg-howto.html

Note: The configure for ffmpeg in the above document didn't work, but it appears to work with this configure command: ./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-static --disable-vhook

gettext

You need gettext for the localization support when compiling PicardQT

wget ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.16.tar.gz
tar -xzvf gettext-0.16.tar.gz
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

PicardQt

• download and extract the latest PicardQT version (currently picard-0.9.0alpha9.tar.gz)

python setup.py config -I /usr/local/include:/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/
python setup.py build_ext -i
python setup.py install

And from now just type picard to run the app!

Contributions

• HUGE thanks to luks and warp in #musicbrainz for their help throughout this process.