pgmodeler-brew.md

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!

1. Checkout the source

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

2. Install dependencies with brew

   brew install postgresql@13 qt@5 libxml2 libpq
   

3. 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
   }
   

4. Build

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

Can

I'm getting

$ 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?

Edit, I got it working with:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

And re-installing xcode-cli.

This works. Can someone explain why this reinstall is needed ?