Keepassxc: Binary or Installation Guide for MacOS Sierra

[andkopp]

Hey!

I found this project today. I downloaded the sources and tried to compile a binary it with CMake but it didn't work (...I could pass QT5 to CMake but however not libgcrypt). Do you have a Step-by-Step Installation Guide or a binary for MacOS Sierra?

Thank you in advance.
andikade

[TheZ3ro]

If you have brew installed, execute this in a Terminal
brew install libgcrypt

I was planning to write some Guide but we have other things to do atm.

[droidmonkey]

This needs to be included in the Readme. I'd accept a pull request to develop once you figure it out.

[TheZ3ro]

I will take care of this once @andikade confirm that it works :wink:

[droidmonkey]

On a side note, I need to re-enable the travis-ci build for osx.

[andkopp]

Thanks for your hints. I think I figured it out! Here is what I did.

Install Homebrew (it is the easiest way to install the required packages on macOS):
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then install the required libraries (zlib already exists on macOS Sierra so it is not needed to install it):

brew install cmake
brew install qt5
brew install libgcrypt
brew install libmicrohttpd

Note the version of qt5 because we use it later.

Navigate to the path you want to install KeePassX and then download the current version of KeePassX from GitHub to your local drive:

cd /Users/{insert_your_user}/Applications/
mkdir KeePassXR
cd KeePassXR
git clone https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassx.git

Build it. You need to provide the path to qt5 and run it. Adapt the path with the right version of qt5:
cd keepassx
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.6.2/lib/cmake/
make

Now you should find a program called KeePassX in the src folder.

At last, create a package (.dmg) which can be mounted. Then drag & drop KeePassX to the application folder and you're ready:
make package

[TheZ3ro]

Seems that application's icon can't load (in the top menu every button should have an Icon).

Can you try a make install from the KeePassXR folder?

Reopening this

[andkopp]

@TheZ3ro You are right. All icons are missing including the ones for the menu, entries and groups except the ones I imported manually. I will check that and respond.

[TheZ3ro]

Thanks a lot for the testing :+1:

[harizvi]

Does the Mac version have both keepass-http and autotype working? I see mentions of keepass-http all over, but not the auto-type, hence the question. I'm using eugenesan's version with keepass-http, but without auto-type.

[TheZ3ro]

@harizvi at the moment auto-type works only on Linux, we are working on porting it to other platforms
Here the proper issue https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassx/issues/20

[TheZ3ro]

I have written the Installation instruction and the Building Env on MacOS from @andikade fork.

If it's all right I will close this issue with an edit to the README.md pointing to the Wiki

[agunnerson-ibm]

@TheZ3ro The packages I build following those instructions seem to crash at startup.

I'm building with:

cmake .. -DWITH_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.7.0/lib/cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j8
make package

Dependencies:

cmake-3.6.2
qt5-5.7.0
libgcrypt-1.7.3
libmicrohttpd-0.9.51

Crash log: https://gist.github.com/agunnerson-ibm/a5e22bbe773b1cc15431cf3850585ee9

Files included in KeePassX.app: https://gist.github.com/agunnerson-ibm/cff7af5c0a0cf7c11927b7e1b600668a

If I try to run /Applications/KeePassX.app/Contents/MacOS/KeePassX manually, I get the following:

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "cocoa"
in "".

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
[1]    53014 abort      /Applications/KeePassX.app/Contents/MacOS/KeePassX

[TheZ3ro]

@agunnerson-ibm Thanks for the feedback.
While I'm investigating the problem can you open a new Issue?
So we keep this for the documentation and the new one for your problem.
Thanks

[agunnerson-ibm]

@TheZ3ro Thanks, will do! I've just created #60