• To build deluge and the gtk osx modules, you must use gcc

• This has been successfully working with :

  • gcc 4.2.1 - Xcode 4.1 - Mac OSX Lion (10.7.2)
  • llvm-gcc 4.2.1 - Xcode 4.3.1 (With Command line utilities) - Mac OSX Lion (10.7.3)

• Check your version of gcc using gcc -v

Quick how-to (from the full GTK-OSX building instructions) [1], [2]

1. Create a dedicated user account and use it for all the next steps:

   sudo su - gtk
   cat << EOF > ~/.profile
   export PATH=~/.local/bin:~/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin
   EOF
   . ~/.profile
   

Note: I'm using gtk login with /opt/gtk as home an jhbuild prefix.

2. Download and run the gtk-osx-build-setup [3] script to install jhbuild:

   curl -O https://raw.github.com/jralls/gtk-osx-build/master/gtk-osx-build-setup.sh
   sh gtk-osx-build-setup.sh
   

3. Link or copy deluge osx jhbuildrc-custom:

   ln -sf deluge/osx/jhbuildrc-custom ~/.jhbuildrc-custom
   

Note: This setup builds only for x86_64 arch to /opt/gtk prefix, feel free to edit.

4. Build jhbuild and its modulesets: (takes a while...):

   jhbuild bootstrap && jhbuild
   

Note: If you encounter an error while building glib like:

gconvert.c:65:2: error: #error GNU libiconv not in use but included iconv.h is from libiconv

Start a shell from jhbuild, edit the file vim glib/gconvert.c +65 to delete the section raising error, which is irrelevant. (Lion iconv.h looks like gnu one, but it is not) Then exit the shell and resume build.

5. Build the deluge moduleset: (takes a while...):

   jhbuild -m deluge/osx/deluge.modules build deluge
   

Note: This jhbuild moduleset should build and install all deluge dependencies not available in gtk-osx.

1. Always do your custom build operations under a jhbuild shell:

   jhbuild shell
   

2. Cleanup:

   python setup.py clean -a
   

3. Build and install:

   python setup.py py2app
   python setup.py install
   

4. Build app to deluge/osx/app/Deluge.app:

   cd osx
   ./make-app
   

You should now have a working Deluge.app

• Uncomment the relevant sections of :

  • jhbuildrc-custom
  • deluge.modules
  • setup.cfg

• deluge egg has to be named without the -macosx-10.6-intel suffix
• To build for i386 under a x64 arch libtorrent python bindings have to be patched manually to set correct arch see macports package patch

If Deluge.app doesn't work or crash the first thing to do is to check OSX Console for logs and/or crash reports.

You can enable logging by passing the usual log command switches via console:

/Applications/Deluge.app/Contents/MacOS/Deluge -L debug -l debug.log

Recent jhbuild issues:

• Some jhbuild modules fails to build, freetype and gtk-mac-integration, strangely configure is not called before build/install.

• If that happens, just force rebuild with something like:

  jhbuild build -cf gtk-mac-integration-python

• Interrupt while building with Ctrl+C and wipe to start over if configure missing

• i386: libtorrent crash
• i18n: English only for now
• Magnet URLs: Not currently supported by GTK-OSX