macos.md

Building QChromosome 4D Studio on Mac OS

This distribution contains complete source code for QChromosome 4D Studio.

Dependencies

QChromosome 4D Studio is developed with cross-platform software framework Qt 5.9 LTS. Before installation verify that your graphic driver supports OpenGL 4.0.

By default aplication will attempt to build using system libraries. On macOS 10.14 Mojave we recommend you have the following packages pre-installed:

qt5

If you do not have these packages installed, you can install them by executing the following commands:

brew install qt5
brew link qt5 --force

To enable rendering also pre-install:

povray

Rendering Omni-Directional Strereo (ODS) requires user defined camera capability. It was added to pre-release POV-Ray 3.8 shared at https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/releases/.

To enable converting a set of images into a video also pre-install:

ffmpeg

Building the code

Create a build directory and from inside it run

qmake ..
make

Installing

From inside a build directory run

su
make install

⚠️ Running

In order to use POV-Ray or FFmpeg, the PATH environment variable may need to be extended.