IceCat for macOS

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Aristophanes
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How may I install the latest version of IceCat on macOS?

I found a binary online of version 38.8.0, but it's clearly out-of-date and there is no way of updating the program. The GNU project states "that building binary packages [of IceCat] for Windows and macOS currently requires nonfree software, so we no longer distribute binary releases for those platforms." This page[1] gives instructions on how to make a build; the issue is that it requires the use of Xcode, which I cannot run because I'm not on the latest version of macOS.

[1] https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/Compile_and_package/build_52.6.0_on_macOS

loldier
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loldier
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Prebuilt binary package available here.

https://kaspian.kapsi.fi/icecat/icecat-52.6.0.en-US.mac64.dmg

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Aristophanes
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Thanks!

Is this the latest version for macOS?

loldier
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The latest release is 60.7.0.

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/60.7.0/

I failed to compile the latest source file on Macbook Air High Sierra (I attempted it but the configuration stopped with an error stating clang or lib-clang). The instructions on Libreplanet worked with 52.6.0.

Aristophanes
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Iscritto: 10/05/2017

Why is it not possible to update within the program?

In the "About IceCat" window, after it checks for updates, it states that "IceCat is up to date".

loldier
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Iscritto: 02/17/2016

There's no binary to update to, so it cannot find a newer package. The updater cannot compile it on the sly. It took my Macbook Air five hours to build that dmg.

loldier
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This is the error I get when trying to configure 60.3.0 or 60.7.0.

ERROR: Could not find LLVM/Clang installation for compiling stylo build-time
bindgen. Please specify the 'LLVM_CONFIG' environment variable
(recommended), pass the '--with-libclang-path' and '--with-clang-path'
options to configure, or put 'llvm-config' in your PATH. Altering your
PATH may expose 'clang' as well, potentially altering your compiler,
which may not be what you intended.

loldier
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Iscritto: 02/17/2016

I installed 'llvm': 'brew install llvm'.

==> Caveats
==> llvm
To use the bundled libc++ please add the following LDFLAGS:
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib"

llvm is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,
because macOS already provides this software and installing another version in
parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.

If you need to have llvm first in your PATH run:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

For compilers to find llvm you may need to set:
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/llvm/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/llvm/include"