xv-macos

This repository provides a "clean-room" environment for building the classic image viewer and editor, XV, on macOS. It aims to consolidate the original XV source code, essential patches, and a build script for a streamlined macOS development experience.

WARNING! This repository / project is only out of pure nostalgia.

The real work porting and updating xv is here: https://github.com/jasper-software/xv

Me? I've using XV since the 90's and always wanted to get around being able to recompile this xv-3.10a.tar.gz archive i've been carrying around since.

Thanks GEMINI for the help!

Quickstart

./build_macos.sh

Project Contents:

• Original XV Source: The patched 'Jumbo' XV 3.10a tree (xv-3.10a-patched.tar.gz).
• Patch: A MacOS patch to make this tree compile clean: macos-compile.path
• CMake config: A CMakeLists.txt file for configuring the build process.
• Build Script: A shell script (./build_macos.sh) to automate the build on macOS.
• The final source tree: xv-3.10a contains the expected output of the script run, for reference.
• License: XV's shareware license information (LICENSE).

This source tree has been heavily prepared by GEMINI-CLI under my supervision.

Building XV on macOS:

Follow these steps to build XV from this repository:

1. Prerequisites: Ensure you have Homebrew installed. If not, install it from brew.sh.
2. Dependencies: Run the build script, which will handle installing necessary dependencies (XQuartz, libjpeg-turbo, libtiff, libpng, jasper).
3. Build: Execute the build script.

# Clone this repository (if you haven't already)
# git clone git@github.com:skal65535/xv-macos.git xv-macos

# Navigate to the repository directory
# cd xv-macos

# Run the build script
./build_macos.sh

-> build/ should contain the 'xv' binaries.

XV License:

XV is distributed under a shareware license for personal use. Commercial, government, and institutional users are required to register their copies. Please refer to the LICENSE file for full details.

References

• Greg Roelofs' Jumbo patches. This is the starting point.
• Modern 'xv' version (with WebP support!): github.com/jasper-software/xv . Use this one!
• porting xv on Ubuntu (archive): building-xv-on-ubuntu
• original ftp site at UPenn