Building MacOS Binaries

Setup

Install XCode and its command line tools.

Workaround curl certificate issue

This step is optional and only needed if curl fails to validate SSL connections.

curl -k -sSL http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem >> cacert.pem
export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=`pwd`/cacert.pem

On some older versions of MacOS, you may also need:

git config --global http.sslverify "false"

At least initially.

Setup gtk-osx

Download the latest version of the gtk-osx setup script and run it:

curl https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx/raw/master/gtk-osx-setup.sh
sh gtk-osx-setup.sh

This will have installed jhbuild in ~/.new_local/bin, so let's add this to our $PATH:

export PATH=$PATH:~/.new_local/bin/

Configure `jhbuild` to use our modules

curl -o ~/.jhbuildrc-custom \
     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xpra-org/gtk-osx-build/master/jhbuildrc-custom-xpra

Download everything required for the build:

jhbuild update

Optional: install pandoc

jhbuild bootstrap-gtk-osx
jhbuild build

git clone https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra
cd xpra/packaging/MacOS/
sh ./make-app.sh
sh ./make-DMG.sh

Signing the resulting .app, DMG and PKG images requires setting up certificates.