This explains how to install Brave on macOS.
First up, make sure you have Homebrew.
Brave uses from of the newer features of Python. As such we recomend python 3.6 (or higher).
Brave uses Pipeenv to manage an isolate its dependencies
If not installed please install using:
pip install --user pipenv or pip3 install --user pipenv
If your python was installed by brew please use brew install pipenv
pipenv install
Brave uses python-gst which requires the uses of GI. This can be a little tricky to working on OSX with a virtual enviroment. To get around this we can use vext. It requires the libary libffi.
Install the libary
brew install libffi
Add the location to the env.
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig"
Try running the install process again.
pipenv install
First up, dependencies:
brew install libnice openssl librsvg libvpx srtp
Now on to gsteamer and all of its bits. Note, versions earlier than 1.14.2 won't work (The .2 point-release fixed WebRTC.)
brew install gstreamer
brew install gst-plugins-base
brew install gst-plugins-good
brew install gst-plugins-bad
brew install gst-plugins-ugly
brew install gst-libav gst-python
Depending on you brew version some of the options listed above may not be present. In order to add some of these missing dependencies back we will need to edit the different formula used to build the gstreamer libs. When brave trys to run it will look for the missing the dependencies, and print them out.
brew edit gst-plugins-bad
Add the following under depends_on "orc"
depends_on "libnice" => :recommended
depends_on "rtmpdump" => :recommended
depends_on "srtp" => :recommended
The rebuild/install the packages from source. brew reinstall --build-from-source gst-plugins-bad
Try it out
pipenv run python3 brave.py