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Title: Does bitcoin-qt work on Mac OSX Mountain Lion?
Post by: gweedo on July 13, 2012, 05:40:17 AM
I just curious if anyone has played with it on the beta testing of Mountain Lion, just wondering if the gatekeeper will be a problem?


Title: Re: Does bitcoin-qt work on Mac OSX Mountain Lion?
Post by: Phraust on July 13, 2012, 10:26:03 AM
I've tried playing with it, but haven't gotten it to compile yet.  Spent all of 15 minutes goofing with it.  Might try tomorrow.


Title: Re: Does bitcoin-qt work on Mac OSX Mountain Lion?
Post by: toffoo on July 25, 2012, 03:32:16 AM
Mountain Lion will be officially released tomorrow.  Bump.

The GM has been out for a while.  Has anybody tried running bitcoin-qt on OSX 10.8?  Is it working okay?  Any issues?

I was planning on making the leap tomorrow but refuse to upgrade unless my beloved Bitcoin is working without problems.   ;D


Title: Re: Does bitcoin-qt work on Mac OSX Mountain Lion?
Post by: Nerzahd on July 26, 2012, 03:07:20 PM
I installed mountain lion today and everything works fine.


Title: Re: Does bitcoin-qt work on Mac OSX Mountain Lion?
Post by: World on July 26, 2012, 07:18:00 PM
Works fine in 10.8
http://roaringapps.com/app:2461 (http://roaringapps.com/app:2461)


Title: Re: Does bitcoin-qt work on Mac OSX Mountain Lion?
Post by: toffoo on July 27, 2012, 08:10:58 AM
I finally got 10.8 installed here and yes I can confirm that things seem to be working fine with Bitcoin-qt.

Thanks for all your replies.


Title: Re: Does bitcoin-qt work on Mac OSX Mountain Lion?
Post by: djp3 on July 30, 2012, 08:00:53 PM
I have been trying to compile the source from the main bitcoin tree and ran into a problem with the qt4-mac macport not being Mountain Lion ready yet.
It's not terrible to fix it so that it will build, but it blocks the ability to build bitcoin-qt from scratch on 10.8

I found the info necessary to compile qt4-mac here: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/35313 (https://trac.macports.org/ticket/35313)

Then in the bitcoin code I had to make one change to src/qt/qtipcserver.cpp so that

+static void ipcThread(void* pArg){}
+static void ipcThread2(void* pArg){}

where defined as empty functions.

Then once I had all the ports installed the bitcoin-qt cllient would build and run.