Cutecom installation fails on OSX Mavericks

Question

I'm trying to install cutecom on OSX Mavericks but I'm getting some erros. Here are the steps that I followed.

1. install qt through brew

   brew install qt

2. update path on .bashprofile

   export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.6/bin:$PATH

3. extract files of cutecom

4. compile source code of cutecom

   $ mkdir build

   $ cd build

   $ cmake ..

   $ make

And the output of make is:

[ 20%] Generating ui_cutecommdlg.h 

/Users/kc/Downloads/cutecom-0.22.0/cutecommdlg.ui: Warning: The form file has external pixmaps or qPixmapFromMimeSource() set as a pixmap function. This requires Qt 3 support, which is disabled. The resulting code will not compile.

[ 40%] Generating moc_qcppdialogimpl.cxx Scanning dependencies of target cutecom

[ 60%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/cutecom.dir/main.cpp.o

In file included from /Users/kc/Downloads/cutecom-0.22.0/main.cpp:21: 

In file included from /Users/kc/Downloads/cutecom-0.22.0/qcppdialogimpl.h:22:

/Users/kc/Downloads/cutecom-0.22.0/build/ui_cutecommdlg.h:12:10: fatal error:     
          'Qt3Support/Q3MimeSourceFactory' file not found
    #include <Qt3Support/Q3MimeSourceFactory>
             ^  
1 error generated.   

make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/cutecom.dir/main.cpp.o] Error 1  

make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/cutecom.dir/all] Error 2   

make: *** [all] Error 2

Any suggestions ?

Thank you very much for your time.

Kostas.

Answer 1

The Qt package you have is missing Qt3Support (on purpose). This component is necessarily for some Qt4 software that still uses deprecated features dating back to Qt3.

Based on the documentation I've been able to find online, you should be able to reinstall Qt4 with the extras you need using a command like this:

brew install --with-qt3support qt