README-INSTALL-MAC.md

Mac install instructions

This should be in the wiki. After that happens, this file can be deleted.

Mac install (assuming you have brew)

Nearly everything you need can be found via brew package handler. The following should be installed to allow the compilation and running of gsc.

brew install libconfig libev xmlrpc-c hamlib libusb dfu-util cmake

The following is useful independent of gsc; however, will allow easy REST API testing

brew install jq

Homebrew's preferred install location is /usr/local for macOS Intel and /opt/homebrew for newer Apple Silicon macOS. This is handled within the CMakeLists.txt file.

Packages you need to build yourself - libpredict & json-c

Install these projects by following their install instructions (i.e. their README files)

• https://github.com/la1k/libpredict (see la1k/libpredict#110 if it doesn't compile)
• https://github.com/json-c/json-c

Both can be installed in their default locations. Both have sudo style install commands (see README's).

Final notes

While the Mac is a perfectly acceptable platform to operate gsc, an end user should be aware of the specifics of running hamlib and the gnuradio tools on a Mac. That is beyond the scope of this file.