I've been looking for a painless way to run Dale Farnworth's excellent Editcp DMR codeplug editor on my Mac, mostly because it's more convenient than additionally pulling out my rarely used Linux laptop.
I vaguely recall trying a few years ago to build it natively on the Mac and this being very complex and ultimately failing. So today I tried a different approach: running Editcp in one of my existing VMware Ubuntu Linux VMs.
In short, I'm delighted to report that this works for me once I installed XQuartz on the Mac and libqt5gui5 on Linux!
My environment:
- MacOS Sonoma
- VMware Fusion
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit VM
Steps for installing and running:
- brew install xquartz
- ssh -X ubuntuvm.local
- sudo apt install libqt5gui5
- /opt/bin/editcp
- choose to connect the USB device to Linux
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