[Users] Latest on MacOS/OSX support

[Igor Mammedov]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:54:28 -0800
Jeremy Schneider <schneider at ardentperf.com> wrote:

> I have recently switched to a Mac, after years of using Windows and
> Linux desktops. I really miss my favorite email client (by far),
> claws.
> 
> I have seen the wiki page:
> http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Installation_and_Configuration#How_to_build_Claws_Mail_on_Mac_OS_X.3F
> 
> But it seems a few years old, and itself was based on an email back in
> 2012.  Also it seems based on running an entire X environment on your
> mac... and I'm not keen on doing that just for email (my laptop has
> enough stuff running already).
> 
> I've also seen bug 3381:
> http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3381
> 
> But it seems Igor hasn't had time to work on this since 2014.
> 
> Is there anyone who uses claws on a mac these days? Anyone who wants to?
I had to rebuild it including gtkosx after upgrading to OSX 10.13,
so old version still usable. But building gtk for osx was a pain as it
didn't work out of box, so until that stabilizes I don't see
anyone trying to rebase old patches that depend on it.

If you manage to build gtkosx, I can dig out list of commands
to build claws-mail from my CLI history.

btw:
you don't need anymore gtkosx off-tree patch mentioned in
above bug as it's been merged upstream since then.