The plugin does not work on OSX

[mcaceresb]

Since I do not have a Mac and I have been unable to install OSX on a virtual machine, I have not been able to compile an OSX version of the plugin. This is currently on hold. Macs are expensive.

If you happen to have a Mac and are willing yo contribute to gtools, please comment here and I will give you instructions on how to compile.

[fbelotti]

Hi Mauricio, I'd be happy to help. Can you give me instructions to compile the plugin on OSX?

[mcaceresb]

Excellent! Let's do some checks first.

1. Clone the repository,
2. Install premake5; if you're not sure how then download it from https://premake.github.io/download.html and extract the contents.
3. Make sure you have gcc and make installed. I think the easiest way to do this is to install the command line tools from Xcode (Preferences > Downloads > Command Line Tools).
4. Open iTerm and run

cd /Path/To/stata-gtools
make spooky PREMAKE=/Path/To/premake5

Iet me know what happens. You only need to specify PREMAKE if it's not in your system's path.

[fbelotti]

Do I need to compile in the trunk?

[mcaceresb]

I think it would be best if you made a branch for it. Maybe run

git checkout -b osx

Before doing anything.

[fbelotti]

I just checked out the entire repository using -svn co-.

[mcaceresb]

You can use SVN with github? I didn't know that... I don't know enough SVN to help with branches. I think you will need git for make spooky to work. Can you install git as well? If you don't want to use it outside that then just do all this in the trunk, but git should be in your system path.

[fbelotti]

Ok. I realized that git comes with Xcode. I cloned the rep and started a new branch using

git checkout -b osx

but I have issues with premake5. See below:

Federicos-MacBook-Pro:stata-gtools federico$ make spooky PREMAKE=/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua
cd lib/spookyhash/build && /Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua gmake
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 1: ---: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 2: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 3: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 4: ---: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 6: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 7: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 7: I: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 8: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 10: local: can only be used in a function
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 13: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 14: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 15: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 16: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 18: premake.api.deprecations: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 21: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 22: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 23: --: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 25: newaction: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 26: trigger: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 27: description: command not found
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 28: syntax error near unexpected token (' /Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/premake5.lua: line 28: execute = function ()'
make: *** [spooky] Error 2

[mcaceresb]

Is premake5.lua an executable or a script? You should pass the path to the executable. One way to check is to look at the output of

ls -lah /Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/

[fbelotti]

It is a script. But I also followed the instructions at https://github.com/premake/premake-core/wiki/Building-Premake to create the premake5 executable. Then I tried to make spooky using the premake5 executable and I got

Federicos-MacBook-Pro:stata-gtools federico$ make spooky PREMAKE=/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/bin/release/premake5
cd lib/spookyhash/build && /Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/bin/release/premake5 gmake
No Premake script (premake5.lua) found!
make: *** [spooky] Error 1

[mcaceresb]

That's odd. Can you run

cd lib/spookyhash/build
ls -lah
/Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/bin/release/premake5 gmake make

[fbelotti]

Federicos-MacBook-Pro:stata-gtools federico$ cd lib/spookyhash/build
Federicos-MacBook-Pro:build federico$ ls -lah
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 federico staff 102B Sep 28 16:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 federico staff 102B Sep 28 16:21 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 federico staff 102B Sep 28 16:21 bin
Federicos-MacBook-Pro:build federico$ /Users/federico/Desktop/GiT/premake5/bin/release/premake5 gmake make
No Premake script (premake5.lua) found!

[mcaceresb]

Oh! I know what's up. Totally my bad; I should have read my own README. You need

git submodule update --init --recursive

before doing anything else. Try that and try the previous set of commands again.