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.

Compile SQLite

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://sqlite.org/2018/sqlite-autoconf-3260000.tar.gz
tar xvzf sqlite-autoconf-3260000.tar.gz
cd sqlite-autoconf-3260000
./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-0.19.8.tar.xz
tar xvf gettext-0.19.8.tar.xz
cd gettext-0.19.8
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
make
make install

Compile wxWidgets

cd ~/src
curl -OL https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/download/v3.2.1/wxWidgets-3.2.1.tar.bz2
tar xvf wxWidgets-3.2.1.tar.bz2
cd wxWidgets-3.2.1
./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