Building PHD2 on macOS - 64-bit

Instructions for building a 64-bit version of PHD2 that will run on macOS 14.0 Sonoma or newer

Install Homebrew

The build will be using a few tools and libraries from HomeBrew. Macports should work just as well it you prefer that.

Install CMake

brew install cmake

Install Xcode and the Xcode Command Line Tools

We really just need the command-line tools, we won't be using XCode itself.

Download and build wxWidgets-3.1.7

https://wxwidgets.org/downloads/

Run the following commands to build wxWidgets static libs and install them to a location $WXWIN

mkdir wxWidgets-3.1.7-build
cd wxWidgets-3.1.7-build
/path/to/wxWidgets-3.1.7/configure --disable-shared --with-cocoa --prefix=$WXWIN \
 --with-macosx-sdk=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX14.0.sdk \
 --with-macosx-version-min=14.0 \
 --with-libpng=builtin \
 --with-regex=builtin \
 --with-libiconv=builtin \
 --with-libtiff=builtin \
 --without-libcurl
make
make install

Install build dependencies

brew install libnova cfitsio

Get the phd2 source code from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/OpenPHDGuiding/phd2.git

Generate the Makefiles

Run cmake

cd phd2
./run_cmake-osx

Build PHD2

cd tmp
make

This will build PHD2.app