Re: GTK on Macintosh OSX

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Jul 12, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:

> Glib on Win32 has routines to solve this problem. It resolves things
> relative to where the Glib DLL is installed. If your applications use
> the XDG data directory functions in Glib, you might get away with this
> too. Maybe you could invent something similar that used the OSX bundle
> as your point of reference.


The routines only solve the problem if they're used.

Don't need to invent anything. The core foundation functions are easy  
to use, and Richard Hult already abstracted it into a gobject. But the  
code still has to be patched. It's not just application code, either,  
but infrastructure libraries like gconf, gnome-keyring, dbus, etc.

I set up a $PREFIX of /usr/local/gtk, built Gnucash, and ran `find / 
usr/local/gtk -name *.dylib -exec strings \{\} | grep -H 'local/gtk'  
\; ` and got more than 100 hits. Many of them are likely to be just a  
define that isn't used for anything, but every one would have to be  
examined, and a goodly number of them would require patching.

Regards,
John Ralls