Building pgModeler in MacOS with Homebrew

The official installation instructions for pgModeler recommends installing Xcode and the Enterprise DB distribution of Postgres to fulfill its build requirements. Luckily, Homebrew's got us covered!

Checkout the source

git clone https://github.com/pgmodeler/pgmodeler.git
git checkout main

Install dependencies with brew

brew install postgresql@13 qt@5 libxml2 libpq

Tweak build script (pgmodeler.pri)

macx {
  PGSQL_LIB = /usr/local/opt/libpq/lib/libpq.dylib
  PGSQL_INC = /usr/local/opt/libpq/include
  XML_INC = /usr/local/opt/libxml2/include/libxml2
  XML_LIB = /usr/local/opt/libxml2/lib/libxml2.dylib
  INCLUDEPATH += $$PGSQL_INC $$XML_INC
}

Brew installs to a different path by default for Apple Silicon devices:

macx {
  PGSQL_LIB = /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/lib/libpq.dylib
  PGSQL_INC = /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/include
  XML_INC = /opt/homebrew/opt/libxml2/include/libxml2
  XML_LIB = /opt/homebrew/opt/libxml2/lib/libxml2.dylib
  INCLUDEPATH += $$PGSQL_INC $$XML_INC
}

Build

<PATH_TO_QT5_BIN>/qmake -r pgmodeler.pro
make
make install

Errors:

If you get:

$ make
cd libs/libutils/ && ( test -e Makefile || /opt/homebrew/bin/qmake -o Makefile /Users/dky/git/pgmodeler/libs/libutils/libutils.pro -early QMAKE_DEFAULT_LIBDIRS=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib ) && /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -f Makefile
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/clang++ -c -pipe -stdlib=libc++ -O2 -std=gnu++1z  -arch arm64 -isysroot /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk -mmacosx-version-min=14.0 -Wall -Wextra -frtti -fPIC -DPGMODELER_DEBUG -DQT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x060000 -DCHECK_CURR_VER -DBUILDNUM=\"2f4568ac3\" -DBUILDDATE=\"20241230\" -DBINDIR=\"/Applications/pgModeler.app/Contents/MacOS\" -DPLUGINSDIR=\"/Applications/pgModeler.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins\" -DPRIVATEBINDIR=\"/Applications/pgModeler.app/Contents/MacOS\" -DCONFDIR=\"/Applications/pgModeler.app/Contents/MacOS/conf\" -DDOCDIR=\"/Applications/pgModeler.app/Contents/MacOS\" -DLANGDIR=\"/Applications/pgModeler.app/Contents/MacOS/lang\" -DSAMPLESDIR=\"/Applications/pgModeler.app/Contents/MacOS/samples\" -DSCHEMASDIR=\"/Applications/pgModeler.app/Contents/MacOS/schemas\" -DUTILS_SYMBOLS -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PRINTSUPPORT_LIB -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I/Users/dky/git/pgmodeler/plugins/src -I/opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/include -I/opt/homebrew/opt/libxml2/include/libxml2 -I/opt/homebrew/lib/QtPrintSupport.framework/Headers -I/opt/homebrew/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Headers -I/opt/homebrew/lib/QtSvg.framework/Headers -I/opt/homebrew/lib/QtGui.framework/Headers -I/opt/homebrew/lib/QtNetwork.framework/Headers -I/opt/homebrew/lib/QtCore.framework/Headers -Imoc -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Headers -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Headers -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Headers -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Headers -I/opt/homebrew/share/qt/mkspecs/macx-clang -F/opt/homebrew/lib -o obj/exception.o src/exception.cpp
In file included from src/exception.cpp:18:
In file included from src/exception.h:29:
In file included from src/utilsglobal.h:4:
In file included from /opt/homebrew/lib/QtCore.framework/Headers/QtGlobal:1:
/opt/homebrew/lib/QtCore.framework/Headers/qglobal.h:13:12: fatal error: 'type_traits' file not found
   13 | #  include <type_traits>
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make[1]: *** [obj/exception.o] Error 1
make: *** [sub-libs-libutils-make_first-ordered] Error 2
When trying to build on MacOS sequoia 15.1.1. Anyone know a fix for this?

You can:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

And and it will prompt to re-install xcode-cli.

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Building pgModeler in MacOS with Homebrew

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