[Qt-creator] Where to install Ninja on macOS Sierra (10.12)

[Mike Jackson]

The issues with Macs is that anything extra set in your PATH env var is 
NOT honored by GUI apps. There used to be a way to write some sort of 
.plist file but with Sierra that seems to be gone. One of our guys 
figured out that if you set the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM variable BEFORE you 
run CMake (so in the kit I guess) you can set there.

Since I am still running macOS 10.10 I can just make a symlink in 
/usr/bin to a ninja installation somewhere else. With macOS 10.11 and 
beyond the user would have to disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) 
to write to anything in /usr/bin.

Thanks for the info.

-- 
Michael A. Jackson
BlueQuartz Software, LLC
[e]: mike.jackson at bluequartz.net


Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>
> 07.04.2017, 14:06, "Tobias Hunger"<tobias.hunger at qt.io>:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> I am not much of an Apple user, so I hope I do not make a fool out of myself by
>> trying to answer:
>>
>> Creator should not default to ninja unless it sees a "ninja" binary in PATH.
>
> AFAIK question was about using ninja consciously, not as default option.
>
> Mike: Change build command in project settings from "cmake --build ." to
> /usr/local/bin/ninja or where do you have it
>
>> On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 12:42 -0400, Mike Jackson wrote:
>>>   What is the recommended location to install ninja on macOS Sierra so
>>>   that QtCreator can find it? We tried the usual /usr/local/bin but
>>>   QtCreator does not seem to find it there.
>>>
>>>   Note: putting it in /usr/bin or /bin is NOT a correct answer since SIP
>>>   is on by default and will not allow it.
>> Add the directory with Ninja to PATH? Does that work?
>>
>> Creator will call "cmake --build .". CMake needs to find ninja somehow. From
>> what I see in the manual CMake should find anything in PATH, but I got a report
>> that this is apparently not the case on Macs.
>>
>>>   Could QtCreator ship with a Ninja in its "Resources" directory or is
>>>   there some preference setting (like the CMake path) that we are missing?
>> No, there is no special setting.
>>
>> I would love to ship more development tools with Qt Creator (e.g. cmake, ninja,
>> git) and have them optionally installed along with the IDE. But this is not my
>> call to make, no idea whether or not we will do so.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Tobias
>>
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