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diff --git a/README.macos b/README.macos index 4b013dbc82..7e533ca3f7 100644 --- a/README.macos +++ b/README.macos @@ -59,14 +59,27 @@ elsewhere, such as After you have installed those libraries: - make a directory in which Wireshark is to be built, separate + 1. If you have installed Qt into some non-standard place, as is + distinctly possible with the build included with + macos-setup.sh, you must inform cmake by either including its + "bin" directory as part of the PATH environment variable or + setting CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to the directory above Qt's "lib" + directory. For Qt 5.8 installed into one's home directory, + for instance: + + % export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/Qt5.8.0/5.8/clang_64 + + This step is unnecessary if you've used a recent version of + Homebrew, as the CMake build scripts will find Qt. + + 2. Make a directory in which Wireshark is to be built, separate from the top-level source directory for Wireshark - it can be a subdirectory of that top-level source directory; - cd to that directory, and run CMake, with an argument that is a + 3. cd to that directory, and run CMake, with an argument that is a path to the top-level source directory; - when CMake finishes, run make to build Wireshark. + 4. When CMake finishes, run make to build Wireshark. For example, to build Wireshark in a subdirectory of the top-level source directory, named "build", do, from the top-level source |