MacOS

This page details instructions for compiling RawTherapee on macOS systems. There are also separate pages with instructions for compiling on Linux and Windows. This guide details the what and how parts of compilation. For the why and explanations of these commands, for a list of dependencies, CMake options and other information, please refer to the detailed Linux article.

When in doubt, join us on IRC and ask a human!

For instructions on cloning the source, choosing branches, configuring CMake and doing the actual compilation, see these sections in the Linux guide. The information below is in addition to that.

Dependencies

See the list of dependencies in the Compiling in Linux article.

Homebrew

The following command installs dependencies for RawTherapee: brew install gtk+3 gtkmm3 gtk-mac-integration adwaita-icon-theme libsigc++ little-cms2 libiptcdata fftw lensfun wget llvm cmake expat pkgconfig libomp

MacPorts

Tested on OS X 10.9 and newer.

• Prerequisites:
  • Apple's Xcode Developer Tools
  • Apple's Command Line Tools
  • MacPorts
    • Detailed instructions on setting up MacPorts and the developer tools are available on the MacPorts website.
    • The native system compiler provided by Apple is badly outdated and does not support OpenMP. Don't use it. Use the latest stable compiler from MacPorts - RawTherapee will run faster.
• Configure MacPorts:

Add the following line to /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf

+quartz -x11 -gnome

• Dependencies:

To install the dependencies, run from the terminal:

sudo port install git clang-3.9 gtk3 gtkmm3 gtk-osx-application-gtk3 adwaita-icon-theme libsigcxx2 lcms2 libiptcdata fftw-3-single lensfun

If compiling on Xcode 9.2 you will also need to do:

sudo port instal ld64 +ld64_xcode

libiconv patch

libiconv.2.dylib must be patched, otherwise RawTherapee will crash on startup. The patch is available in tools/osx/libiconv_1.15_rt.patch

libiconv patching and compilation instructions:

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.15.tar.gz
tar xf libiconv-1.15.tar.gz
cd libiconv-1.15
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee/dev/tools/osx/libiconv_1.15_rt.patch
patch -p1 < libiconv_1.15_rt.patch
mkdir build
cd build
buildDir="$(pwd)"
../configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-static 'CFLAGS=-arch x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.9' 'LDFLAGS=-arch x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.9' CXXFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.9"
make
make DESTDIR="$buildDir" install
cd /opt/local/lib
sudo cp ./libiconv.2.dylib ./libiconv.2.dylib.backup # backup MacPorts dylib
sudo cp "${buildDir}/opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib" /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib

Distribution Bundle Framework Library Versions in 5.5-dev

package	5.5 version	status	5.6 version	status	5.6-dev version	status
gtk+	3.22.26-168-g63f534f4b3	on branch gtk-3-22	3.22.30	prev. 3.24.0	3.24.8
gtkmacintegration-gtk3	2.0.8				2.1.3-6-g3e1d4a3
gdk-pixbuf	2.36.11				2.38.0-115-g0b959ad2e
cairo	1.14.8	PATCHED[1]			1.17.2	patch applies
cairomm	1.12.2				cairomm-1-14
cairo-gobject	1.14.10				1.17.2
pango	1.40.12		1.42.4		1.43.0
pangomm	2.40.1				2.42.0
gtkmm	3.22.2				3.24.1
atk	2.26.1				ATK_2_31_92-5-ga2bff76	master
atkmm	2.24.2
glib/gio	2.54.2				2.59.3
glibmm/giomm	2.54.1-15-ge9330a8e	On branch glibmm-2-54			2.56.1
libsigc++-2.0	2.10.0				2.10.1
TIFF	4.0.9
pixman	0.34.0				pixman-0.38.4
PNG	1.6.33				1.6.37
expat	2.2.4				R_2_2_6-61-g5e2859f	master
lcms2	2.8				lcms2.9rc1-45-g65c63bf	master
JPEG	9b				8.4.0-4-g6c0fcb8	master
harfbuzz	1.4.7				2.4.0-3-gb292772e
epoxy	1.4.3				1.5.3-4-gd536f78
pcre	8.4.1				8.4.2	master
lensfun	0.3.2.0				v0.3.95-221-g8de8fbb7	master
libiconv2	1.15	PATCHED
iptcdata	1.0.4
fontconfig	2.12.4				2.13.1-81-gfd2e155	master
freetype2	20.0.14				VER-2-10-0-15-gd74106e23	master
libz	1.2.11				system libz
graphite2	1.3.0.1				1.3.13
fftw	3.3.7
libffi	3.2.1				v3.3-rc0-36-gd1e9b4b
libiomp5	20160808_oss[2]	REPLACES libomp from clang [3]

Compiling

See the Compiling in Linux article for instructions on how to clone the source code, choose a branch and how to configure CMake. Ignore the "Now you are ready to compile" code on that page and follow the code on this page.

If you want to upload a build or otherwise share it with others, you must use

-DPROC_TARGET_NUMBER="1"

and set the processor label manually by setting

-DPROC_LABEL="generic processor"

If you want to compile for yourself only, then use

-DPROC_TARGET_NUMBER="2"

and then the processor label would be irrelevant, you could skip it.

If you wish to codesign your build, add your details to the CMake command:

-DCODESIGNID="Developer ID Application: Firstname Lastname (XXXXXXXXXX)"

The app and the generated dmg (Apple Disk Image) will be codesigned.

To notarize your codesigned build, include your app-specific notarial credential in the CMake command:

-DNOTARY="--username user@mail.com --password abcd-efgh-ijkl-mnop"

The app and dmg will be notarized (scanned for malware) and stapled (have the notarization ticket attached).

Compile RawTherapee

Now you are ready to compile:

cd ~/repo-rt
rm -rf build
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="release" \
      -DPROC_TARGET_NUMBER="1" \
      -DPROC_LABEL="generic processor" \
      -DCACHE_NAME_SUFFIX="5-dev" \
      -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="clang-mp-3.9" \
      -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="clang++-mp-3.9" \
      -DWITH_LTO="OFF" \
      -DLENSFUNDBDIR="./share/lensfun" \
      ..
make -j4 install
make macosx_bundle

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If you are compiling with homebrew dependencies w/llvm clang 8, use the following cmake command:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/opt/expat/lib/pkgconfig && \
cmake  .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="release" \
          -DPROC_TARGET_NUMBER="2" \
          -DCACHE_NAME_SUFFIX="5.6-dev" \
          -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="clang"\
          -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="clang++" \
          -DWITH_LTO="ON" \
          -DLENSFUNDBDIR="./share/lensfun" \
          -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
          -DOpenMP_C_FLAGS=-fopenmp=libomp \
          -DOpenMP_CXX_FLAGS=-fopenmp=libomp \
          -DOpenMP_C_LIB_NAMES="libomp" \
          -DOpenMP_CXX_LIB_NAMES="libomp" \
          -DOpenMP_libomp_LIBRARY="/usr/local/lib/libomp.dylib" \
          -DOpenMP_CXX_FLAGS="-Xpreprocessor -fopenmp /usr/local/lib/libomp.dylib -I/usr/local/include" \
          -DOpenMP_CXX_LIB_NAMES="libomp" \
          -DOpenMP_C_FLAGS="-Xpreprocessor -fopenmp /usr/local/lib/libomp.dylib -I/usr/local/include" \
          -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE:BOOL=ON \
          -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib -L/usr/local/lib" \
          -DCMAKE_AR="/usr/local/Cellar/llvm/8.0.0/bin/llvm-ar" \
          -DCMAKE_RANLIB="/usr/local/Cellar/llvm/8.0.0/bin/llvm-ranlib"

From-Scratch Method

• This [4] complete list of commands may optionally be used to perform a from-scratch build of RawTherapee and its dependencies on macOS 10.14.5 / Xcode 10.2.
• A JDK[5] must be installed.
• Xcode 10.2 [6] must be installed

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Run and Share RawTherapee

You will find a disk image in the build directory; this is the distribution release and can be run on any machine which meets the architecture requirements you specified in variants.conf earlier.

To provide the RawTherapee project with your build, please zip the dmg and AboutThisBuild.txt files together. Name the zip file according to this template:

RawTherapee_OSX_<minimum supported macOS version>_64_<RawTherapee version>.zip

for example if your build is made for macOS 10.12 and the version of RawTherapee is 5.2-dev-g1a2b3c4d, name it:

RawTherapee_OSX_10.12_64_5.2-dev-g1a2b3c4d.zip

Upload the zip archive to http://filebin.net/ and open a new issue on our GitHub page with the link so that we can upload it to the website.

macOS 10.15

• To run RawTherapee on macOS 10.15 Catalina you must:
  • Copy the app to and run from the /Applications folder.
  • Add /bin/sh to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access. You will be prompted to automatically do this the first time you run the program.