Re: GTK on Macintosh OSX

[Kevin Fox <Kevin Fox pnl gov>]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 05:47 -0700, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 19:47 -0700, John Ralls 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.
> 
> Well, it's hard to say how many places Gnucash hard codes paths, but
> the
> number of places in the GTK+ stack is nowhere close to 100.
> 
> http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/reinteract/tree/src/reinteract_wrapper_osx/main.m
> 
> Sets only 7 environment variables before initializing GTK+ to get
> everything found properly within the bundle.
> 
> I did need:
> 
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554524
> 
> Hmm, Behdad gave me the commit approval on that; didn't see that.
> 
> Dom's suggestion of unifying with the Win32 functionality for locating
> paths relative to the executable makes a lot of abstract sense though
> I
> haven't looked into the practical details of how it works out.

Is this something that can be done at the glib level? (If not already
done). It would be useful to non gui apps too.

Kevin
> 
> - Owen
> 
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