Re: glib on OS X 10.6

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Oct 3, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Kevin Krieser wrote:

> I am attempting to build GTK+ on the Mac, and I'm getting the  
> following error while compiling GLIB:
>
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib\" - 
> DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGLIB_COMPILATION - 
> DPCRE_STATIC -DG_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/ 
> gtk/include -msse2 -funroll-loops -fstrict-aliasing -finline- 
> functions -Wall -MT gunicollate.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/gunicollate.Tpo  
> -c gunicollate.c  -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/gunicollate.o
> In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/ 
> CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CoreFoundation.h:43,
>                 from /System/Library/Frameworks/ 
> CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/ 
> CarbonCore.h:20,
>                 from /System/Library/Frameworks/ 
> CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/AE.framework/Headers/AE.h:20,
>                 from /System/Library/Frameworks/ 
> CoreServices.framework/Headers/CoreServices.h:21,
>                 from gunicollate.c:30:
> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/ 
> CFBundle.h:147: error: format string argument not a string type
> make[4]: *** [gunicollate.lo] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> The versions I am using are:
> glib-2.18.2
> libpng-1.2.40
> zlib-1.2.3
> pkg-config-0.20
> gettext-0.17
> expat-2.0.1
> gcc 4.3.4 20090511 for GNAT GPL 2009
> and I'm targeting x86_64
>
> This is all in an attempt to compile GtkAda, which is why I'm  
> targeting this version of GTK.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Apple Snow Leopard issue?
>
> First time GLIB builder issue?
>
> Something fixed in later versions of GLIB?

Hello Kevin,

Interesting. That particular issue isn't one that's been reported by  
folks building x86_64 on GTK-OSX (we have a forum for Snow Leopard  
issues at http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/gtk-osx/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19 
), which leads me to suspect that the compiler isn't sufficiently  
Apple-savvy. What happens if you try to build everything with the  
apple-provided gcc-4.2?

The macro which is the source of the error is new to Snow Leopard, but  
CoreServices does support x86_64 and is very central to OSX, so it's  
unlikely to be an Apple bug. That particular file (gunicollate.c)  
hasn't changed since 2.18, so that isn't the problem, and besides, the  
error is occurring just from simply including CoreServices, so it can  
hardly be a glib problem.

It might also be that in spite of reports to the contrary that the  
Apple-provided libtool is still buggy. GTK-OSX builds a full set of  
autotools to work around problems with the Apple-provided ones in  
previous versions.

One other heads-up: You'll need to build a libiconv. The one provided  
by Apple doesn't support x86_64 for some reason.

Regards,
John Ralls