Installing Meld on Mac OS X

I really don’t like FileMerge.app: I’ve always been feeling that Mac OS was missing a good tool like meld. Actually this turns out to be simply false: installing meld on Mac OS is pretty simple. Here are the steps:

• Install the great macports.
• Install meld. This will take some time. Keep in mind that at the time of writing, because of a bug, it is necessary to install rarian first:

sudo port install rarian
sudo port install meld

• Start the dbus service and make it start at boot:

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

• Define the LC_ALL variable to your locale (i.e.):

export LC_ALL=en_US

• Run meld (i.e.):

/opt/local/bin/meld

Pretty simple! Bye! 😉