# gmnisrv on macOS

I experimented a bit with gmnisrv today. Nothing major, actually I was just trying to compile it on my Mac.

=> https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gmnisrv/

## Installation

gmnisrv compiles without problems, however make install is not very cooperative at first. This seems to be an issue with macOS’ onboard install command which does not recognize the -D flag:

```
install -Dm755 gmnisrv /Users/kristof/.local/bin/gmnisrv
install: illegal option -- D
```

I solved this by editing the Makefile and replacing install with the GNU equivalent (prefixed with "g" by Homebrew to not interfere with macOS’ native command):

```
install: all
	mkdir -p \
		$(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR) \
		$(DESTDIR)$(SHAREDIR)/gmnisrv \
		$(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5 \
		$(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1
	ginstall -Dm755 gmnisrv $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/gmnisrv
	ginstall -Dm644 $(SRCDIR)/config.ini $(DESTDIR)$(SHAREDIR)/gmnisrv/gmnisrv.ini
	ginstall -Dm644 doc/gmnisrv.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/gmnisrv.1
	ginstall -Dm644 doc/gmnisrvini.5 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5/gmnisrv.ini.5
```

Now everything installs as expected. There is an error regarding the man pages since scdoc (the man page generator used by gmnisrv) is not installed on my system. I tried compiling scdoc, but ran into some linker issues.

=> https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc

## Running gmnisrv

As smooth at it comes: I just added the directory with an index.gmi to the init file gmnisrv.ini and started it up.

## Issues

With the client Lagrange everything works as expected but I couldn’t get elpher to connect to gmnisrv. The connection timed out all the time:

```
---- ERROR -----

When attempting to retrieve gemini://localhost/:
Connection time-out.

----------------

Press 'u' to return to the previous page.
```

gmnisrv didn’t even report any connection attempts in its log. Maybe I’ll find the time to figure out what this is all about.