Build edbrowse from source on Mac OS

These instructions assume you are using Homebrew to manage packages. You can get it at brew.sh.

Before building edbrowse, you will need to install the following packages:

brew install pcre2 unixodbc

Next, clone edbrowse and a patched quickjs:

git clone https://github.com/CMB/edbrowse
git clone https://github.com/n0ot/quickjs-edbrowse quickjs

Edbrowse statically links to the patch quickjs you just cloned. Once built, there is no need to install it:

(cd quickjs && make)

Mac OS includes libedit rather than readline. If you'd prefer to build edbrowse with readline, run the following:

brew install readline
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix readline)/lib/pkgconfig"

Finally, you can change to the src directory, build, and install it:

cd edbrowse/src
make
sudo make install

When you run edbrowse for the first time, a config file will be created for you in ~/.ebrc. At the minimum, you will want to tell edbrowse the location of a file containing CA certificates, so you can browse HTTPs sites securely. You can install the ca-certificates formula and point to it:

brew install ca-certificates
echo "$(brew --prefix)/share/ca-certificates/cacert.pem"

The last command will output the location of cacert.pem. If your Homebrew prefix is /opt/homebrew, the relevant line in .ebrc will look like this:

certfile=/opt/homebrew/share/ca-certificates/cacert.pem