Re: GTK on Macintosh OSX

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, John Ralls wrote:

> On Jul 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> > We bundle Ardour for OS X and chose the "include GTK framework in the
> > .app". Ardour is fully relocatable - I believe I was responsible for
> > the description of how to do this that Richard wrote up. Its basically
> > a matter of using an apple-provided tool to both locate and reset the
> > paths to every library the app depends on. I have a nice little shell
> > script that recursively finds every dynamically linked object that the
> > app uses, copies it into the app structure and then resets the
> > link-time dependency so that its relative to the app bundle.
>
> Yes, the "nice little shell script" is part of ige-mac-bundler, a
> python program which populates a bundle and which is now in my care.
>
> But the problem isn't with rpaths. The problem is with path strings
> compiled into the library.

Those can be adjusted via environment variables and by using
relative paths in some of the config files.  See

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/osxbuild/build.pdf

Allin Cottrell