Re: Glom on Debian and Mac OSX

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 10:47 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 10:14 +0200, sf pfg dk wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > I am a new member of the list and got some question about how to  
> > install it on Debian an Mac OSX. I am a Linux user with a little  
> > experience (be kind to forgive the naive questions of mine). I have to  
> > deal with other Mac users, accessing the same data. Glom would be an  
> > easy solution, since we both have previous experience with FileMaker  
> > Pro.
> >
> > 1) How do I install Glom on Debian?
> > Debian repository do not have Glom yet and I guess that I have to  
> > compile the source file manually. It would be very kind of you to  
> > explain the necessary procedure.
>
> Building Glom from source is much the same as building any other
> standard autotools package from source. You'll need to build several
> dependencies too. There is no way to make it easy.
>
> You really should request a package from Debian. Ubuntu has packages
> that it could use.

In fact, I am surprised that it's not there yet. See the end of this
bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258096

> > 2) Is there any possibility to run Glom on Mac OSX?
> > I wonder if Mac OSX users might compile the source code similarly to  
> > the Linux users, since OSX is a Unix system. But I do not know in  
> > which extent OSX is compatible with GNU Linux.
>
> It should be possible, but probably not that easy until gtkmm has been
> built for MacOS X. It's possible now because GTK+ was recently ported to
> MacOS X.
>
> > 3) Have you any plan to port Glom on Mac OSX?
> > FileMaker Pro is popular among Mac users. Probably some of them will  
> > be happy to have an alternative on GPL license.
>
> Obviously I'd like it, but it's not a priority for me personally. I'd be
> happy if someone wanted to pay my company, Openismus, to do it.
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