Installing meld on OS X

Question

After I got MacPorts installed and did a 'sudo port -v selfupdate', I try to install meld.

The installation just starts to Fetching all kinds of stuff gnome-comoon perl5.8 perl5 pkgconfig ..... this goes on and on.

Is that normal?

Answer 1

You may want to install it via HomeBrew (already mentioned before):

brew install homebrew/gui/meld

Though you may face stability issues (as I did). So I'd rather recommend to use "Meld for OSX":

• Go to https://yousseb.github.io/meld/
• Download DMG file you prefer (e.g. "Download latest DMG" https://github.com/yousseb/meld/releases/download/osx-6/meldmerge.dmg)
• Install it to your Applications folder

We are basically done, but it is not accessible via command line.

Solution:

• Write a small wrapper to run from Terminal:

  echo -e '#!/bin/sh
  params="$@"
  open -W -a Meld --args $params' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/meld
  sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/meld
  

• Try (you must use absolute paths though):

  meld /home/a.txt /home/b.txt
  

  Or just run Meld from menu.