Re: GTK on Macintosh OSX

[Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz gmail com>]

It sounds like you want magic to happen. Either you have to use some
sort of script to re-normalize the paths, or you can use glib's
functions to look up data files relative to the bundle itself, without
needing to write (much) OSX-specific ObjC code. It's not "inventing"
anything. It's just implementing these APIs in terms of how the
operating system's packaging conventions behave.

Best,
Dom

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:47 PM, John Ralls<jralls ceridwen us> wrote:
>
> 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
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