How To - Make a DMG package from GNS3

This step-by-step procedure will show you how to make a DMG package from the GNS3 source code. I’ve built the package on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and used Py2app to make a Mac OS X application. Also, have a look at this article that really helped me.

This procedure worked for me, please let me know if you encounter any issue and I’ll update it. Also, please tell me if you can make it work on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.x).

Setting up Python

First, install zlib library:

wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz tar xzf zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz cd zlib-1.2.5 ./configure --64 make make test sudo make install

Compile and install the latest version of python:

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/Python-2.6.5.tar.bz2 tar xvjf Python-2.6.5.tar.bz2 cd Python-2.6.5 ./configure --with-universal-archs=intel --enable-universalsdk=/ --enable-shared make make test sudo make install

Setting up Qt and PyQt

Install Qt libraries:

To limit the DMG size, I compiled a minimum of components.

wget http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2.tar.gz tar xvzf qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2.tar.gz cd qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2 ./configure -arch x86_64 -cocoa -no-dbus -no-cups -no-nis -no-openssl -no-scripttools -no-libtiff -no-libmng -no-script -no-javascript-jit -no-webkit -no-phonon-backend -no-phonon -no-audio-backend -no-multimedia -no-xmlpatterns -no-qt3support  -no-accessibility -opensource -no-dwarf2  -qt-libpng  -qt-libjpeg -no-multimedia -no-mediaservices make sudo make install

Install sip:

tar xvzf sip-4.10.2.tar.gz wget http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Downloads/sip4/sip-4.10.2.tar.gz python configure.py cd sip-4.10.2 make sudo make install

Install PyQt:

wget http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Downloads/PyQt4/PyQt-mac-gpl-4.7.3.tar.gz tar xvzf PyQt-mac-gpl-4.7.3.tar.gz cd PyQt-mac-gpl-4.7.3 python configure.py -q /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.6.2/bin/qmake make sudo make install

Setting up Py2app

Install setup tools:

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg mv setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg.sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg

Install macholib:

mkdir macholib cd macholib svn co http://svn.pythonmac.org/macholib/macholib/trunk/ . python setup.py install

Install a patched version of py2app with 64-bit support:

You will need to install mercurial if you haven’t already.

hg clone http://hg.hardcoded.net/py2app cd py2app python setup.py install

Making the DMG package

Now you can download the source and make the DMG. If you are interested in the details, have a look at setup.py where you can find every instruction to tell py2app how to make an Mac OS X application from GNS3.

wget http://code.gns3.net/gns3-devel/archive/tip.tar.bz2 tar xvjf tip.tar.bz2 cd gns3-devel-xxx wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gns-3/dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-OSX-Leopard.intel.bin?download mv gns3 gns3.py python setup.py py2app

If everything work, you should find the DMG the the dist directory.






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