Stable Mac client

[jprice]

Is the an ETA on a stable mac client?

[joecascio]

And one that will run on Snow Leopard? ie, 10.6.8

[gweedo]

Is the an ETA on a stable mac client?

https://bitcoinarmory.googlecode.com/files/armory_0.88.1-beta_OSX.dmg

I use this and it is actually really stable. I use it daily and I use it on another OSX as a offline transaction creator computer. So this is really stable, and have yet to have any problems.

[jprice]

I've tried it, it crashes right after I open it.

[etotheipi]

There appears to be an issue with the way it is packaged.  It seems to work flawlessly for 50% of Mac users, but fails to even start for the other 50%.  It sounds like you're in the wrong 50%

A few different people tested it before I "blessed" that result and paid the bounty, before we realized that was a lot of systems on which it didn't work.  It sounds like we need another bounty to finish figuring out how to bundle everything properly.

[jbreher]

I've tried it, it crashes right after I open it.

Me too. MBP 8.3 running 10.7.5

[e4xit]

OK, so I am having these issues with 0.88.1 on Mavericks DP6. Armory doesn't even pretend to open any more... open the app and then nothing.

I am sure that I had it working at some point on Mavericks, but anyway, like others it has been weeks since I last got Armory open (although I was having Bitcoin-QT issues too, though I have them sorted now )

I am currently waiting for Xcode 5 beta to download so that I can build Armory from source code kinda, so will report back later this evening perhaps if I can get this built on OSX at last...

Would be nice to be able to use armory again... I will contribute what little I can to a bounty for a proper OSX app if that will help? Perhaps it is time to start a vocal collection; I'm sure there are plenty of Mac users who want to use (what used to be the best and) most functional bitcoin client π

[gweedo]

OK, so I am having these issues with 0.88.1 on Mavericks DP6. Armory doesn't even pretend to open any more... open the app and then nothing.

I am sure that I had it working at some point on Mavericks, but anyway, like others it has been weeks since I last got Armory open (although I was having Bitcoin-QT issues too, though I have them sorted now )

I am currently waiting for Xcode 5 beta to download so that I can build Armory from source code kinda, so will report back later this evening perhaps if I can get this built on OSX at last...

Would be nice to be able to use armory again... I will contribute what little I can to a bounty for a proper OSX app if that will help? Perhaps it is time to start a vocal collection; I'm sure there are plenty of Mac users who want to use (what used to be the best and) most functional bitcoin client π

Source code: https://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory

Also you may want to look at this script to package. https://gist.github.com/bsmt/5130568

Also I don't see how Xcode will help you build armory, I think it better to use scripts.

[e4xit]

OK, well I have been following this guide: https://gist.github.com/WyseNynja/4200620

I have got so far as:

Code:

Now you are ready to actually install armory-qt!
$ brew install wysenynja/bitcoin/armory-qt

At this point my installer fails - I have tried everything my extremely limited knowledge can think of, but QT is failing (I think because I have Mavericks DP5).


I have now cloned the source from the Qt Git, compiled and successfully installed Qt5. However when I go to run:

Code:

Now you are ready to actually install armory-qt!
$ brew install wysenynja/bitcoin/armory-qt

It is still looking for a version of Qt in the brew directories (I think), as it begins to download Qt 4.8.2 from brew repositories, how can I tell it to use the version of Qt I have compiled and downloaded from source (5.0.1)?

Sorry, I am quite new to all this terminal business