Manual Build: Older macOS systems

This is an instructional guide how to build Ink/Stitch locally. The manual install for developers is described in the manual setup section.

Build requirements

  • MacPorts

    We recommend to use macports on older macOS systems. Set the -b flag to install prebuilt binary packages to speed things up.

  • commnadline tools for mojave
  • pyenv (see below)

Additionally in the build process you will need to install the following packages:

sudo port -v -b install gtk-devel libffi geos gettext gobject-introspection pkgconfig tcl curl sqlite3 readline

Install pyenv

Clone the pyenv repository

git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv

Build pyenv

cd ~/.pyenv && src/configure && make -C src
cd ..

Run these commands to make pyenv work in your terminal

echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc

echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile

For this to take effect run:

exec "$SHELL"

Build python:

env PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-framework" pyenv install -v 3.8.9

Set the version number

pyenv global 3.8.9

Install Ink/Stitch requirements

Update the pip manager

python -m pip install -v —-upgrade pip

Install pip packages get inkstitch from github

git clone https://github.com/inkstitch/inkstitch
git clone https://github.com/inkstitch/pyembroidery.git
python -m pip install -r inkstitch/requirements.txt
python -m pip uninstall -y shapely
python -m pip cache remove shapely
python -m pip install -v shapely --no-binary shapely
python -m pip install pyinstaller

Manual Install

From this point a manual install is possible. Check the manual setup guide on the website. Continue from step 4.

Build Ink/Stitch

Now Ink/Stitch is ready to be built.

In the inkstitch folder run:

make distlocal

When successful the Ink/Stitch installer package will be located in inkstitch/artifacts.

To clean inkstitch directory run:

make distclean