Compiling FileZilla 3 under macOS

This documentation explains how to setup a build environment for FileZilla 3 and how to compile it under macOS using Xcode. These directions have been tested under macOS 12 (Monterey) on an Intel Mac. Resulting binaries are for macOS 10.13 or later.

Xcode

You need to download and install the latest version of Xcode from <https://developer.apple.com/xcode/download/>

Build environment

Open a Terminal and type the following:

mkdir -p "$HOME/prefix"
mkdir -p "$HOME/src"
export CC="clang -mmacosx-version-min=10.13"
export CXX="clang++ -std=c++17 -stdlib=libc++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.13"
export OBJC="clang -mmacosx-version-min=10.13"
export OBJCXX="clang++ -std=c++17 -stdlib=libc++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.13"
export AS="as -mmacosx-version-min=10.13"
export LD="ld -macosx_version_min 10.13"
export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$PATH"
export CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/prefix/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/prefix/lib"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig"

If you ever close the terminal and reopen it, repeat the above steps before you continue.

pkg-config

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.29.2.tar.gz
tar xvf pkg-config-0.29.2.tar.gz
cd pkg-config-0.29.2
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --with-internal-glib
make
make install

libidn

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.41.tar.gz
tar xvzf libidn-1.41.tar.gz
cd libidn-1.41
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
make
make install

GMP

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.3.0.tar.xz
tar xvf gmp-6.3.0.tar.xz
cd gmp-6.3.0
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-fat
make
make install

Nettle

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.9.1.tar.gz
tar xvf nettle-3.9.1.tar.gz
cd nettle-3.9.1
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-fat
make
make install

GnuTLS

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.8/gnutls-3.8.4.tar.xz
tar xvf gnutls-3.8.4.tar.xz
cd gnutls-3.8.4
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --with-included-libtasn1 --without-p11-kit --disable-doc --enable-local-libopts --disable-nls --with-included-unistring --disable-guile --disable-cxx --without-brotli
make
make install

Compile SQLite

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://sqlite.org/2024/sqlite-autoconf-3450300.tar.gz
tar xvzf sqlite-autoconf-3450300.tar.gz
cd sqlite-autoconf-3450300
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-dynamic-extensions
make
make install

gettext

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.22.4.tar.xz
tar xvf gettext-0.22.4.tar.xz
cd gettext-0.22.4
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
make
make install

Compile wxWidgets

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.2.4/wxWidgets-3.2.4.tar.bz2
tar xvf wxWidgets-3.2.4.tar.bz2
cd wxWidgets-3.2.4
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --without-libcurl --without-libtiff --with-macosx-version-min=10.13
make
make install

Compile libfilezilla

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://download.filezilla-project.org/libfilezilla/libfilezilla-0.41.1.tar.bz2
tar xf libfilezilla-0.41.1.tar.bz2
cd libfilezilla-0.41.1
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
make
make install

Compile FileZilla

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://download.filezilla-project.org/client/FileZilla_3.63.2_src.tar.bz2
tar xvjf FileZilla_3.63.2_src.tar.bz2
cd filezilla-3.63.2
./configure --with-pugixml=builtin
make