Unable to Compile GTK 2.4.0 on Linux-AIX-HP-SUN-IRIX

[Vincent Jamart <vincent jamart fft be>]

We try to validate GTK 2.4 on all our platforms before deciding to use
it as the interface library for our program. 

I'm not a GTK developer. I downloaded the source of GTK+ 2.4.0 and its
dependancies in order to compile it on:
-Linux 2.4.21 with gcc-3.3.1
-IBM AIX 5.1 ML4 with VisualAge C++ 6.0
-HP-UX 11.0 (PA-RISC) with gcc-3.3.2
-HP-UX 11.22 (Itanium2) with gcc-3.3.3
-Sun Solaris9 (SB2000) with gcc-3.3.1
-SGI IRIX 6.5.16 (IP28/RX1000) with MIPSPro 7.0

I wonder if some of you have already tried to compile a port of GTK 2.4
on any (or all) these systems, because I have to be sure of the
stability and portability of the libraries before pushing GTK instead of
??? (wxWindows didn't compile, motif/lestiff could be tested but we also
have to support our application's interface to run under Win32, so are
GTK/QT still in the pipe).

Unfortunalelly I wasn't able to compile GTK 2.4.0 form tarball source on
any system and I leave an extract of every problem encountered. I'll be
happy if some of you can take a look at this:


-GTK's pango & atk fail under HP-UX 11.00 (PA-RISC): I compiled
dependencies, for glib-2.4.0 i had to use "./configure --with-libconf"
in order to get my Makefile. Confgure is OK but while running make, i
get the following errors (same for atk & pango):
# make
(...)
atkutil.h               atkvalue.h ) > tmp-atk-enum-types.h \
        && (cmp -s tmp-atk-enum-types.h atk-enum-types.h || cp
tmp-atk-enum-types.h atk-enum-types.h ) \
        && rm -f tmp-atk-enum-types.h \
        && echo timestamp > s-enum-types-h
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 5.
syntax error in file /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums at line 5, next 2
tokens "my $flags"
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 6.
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 8.
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 9.
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 10.
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 11.
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 12.
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 13.
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 14.
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 17.
syntax error in file /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums at line 17, next 2
tokens "my $opts "
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 18.
"s" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 20.
syntax error in file /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums at line 20, next 2
tokens "*,"
Search pattern not terminated in file /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums at
line 20, next char ^?
"my" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums
line 23.
syntax error in file /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums at line 23, next 2
tokens "my ("
/(\w+)(?:=(.+))?/: ?+* follows nothing in regexp at
/usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums line 23.
*** Error exit code 255
Stop.
*** Error exit code 1
Stop.
*** Error exit code 1
Stop.


-HP 11.22 (itanium2): dependency pkg-config has its configure script
that hangs on:
"checking whether pthread_cond_timedwait is posix like..."
I wasn't able to compile glib/pango/atk/gtk.



-Linux: Dependency libpng-1.2.5 cannot compile:
(...)
png.c:755: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
png.c:789: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make: *** [png.o] Error 1

glib-2.4.0: 
configure: error:
*** You must have either have gettext support in your C library,...
?



-AIX: Dependency libtiff has a problem at make time:
= libtiff
        /usr/vacpp/bin/xlc -o mkversion -Dunix -qlanglvl=ansi -qsrcmsg
-qmaxmem=8192 -bM:SRE -g -O  -I. -I../libtiff   ../libtiff/mkversion.c
        rm -f ../libtiff/tiffvers.h
        ./mkversion -v .././VERSION -r .././RELEASE-DATE
../libtiff/tiffvers.h
        /usr/vacpp/bin/xlc -c -Dunix -qlanglvl=ansi -qsrcmsg
-qmaxmem=8192 -bM:SRE -g -O  -I. -I../libtiff   ../libtiff/tif_aux.c
"../libtiff/tiff.h", line 75.21: 1506-334 (S) Identifier int8 has
already been defined on line 631 of "/usr/include/sys/inttypes.h".
"../libtiff/tiff.h", line 80.15: 1506-334 (S) Identifier int16 has
already been defined on line 632 of "/usr/include/sys/inttypes.h".
"../libtiff/tiff.h", line 86.14: 1506-334 (S) Identifier int32 has
already been defined on line 633 of "/usr/include/sys/inttypes.h".
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
Stop.

libpng-1.2.5 also fails, even when modifying its pre-written Makefile
(based on makefile.aix with "CC = xlc"): I got a_lot of syntax errors
and missing types declarations in png.h.

Dependency pkg-config fails as it only seem to compile with gcc as their
makefile is not genric enough to support xlc...I wasn't able to compile 
glib/pango/atk/gtk



-Solaris: Dependency libpng-1.2.5 has problem (using makefile.so9).
(...)
cc -o pngtest -I/usr/include -O3 pngtest.o -L. -R. -L/usr/lib -R/usr/lib
-lpng12 -lz -lm
cc: Warning: option -3 passed to ld
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- 3
usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?]
file(s)
(...)
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `pngtest'

Also for pkg-config, I get:
(...)
gcc -g -O2 -o pkg-config pkg.o partial-glib.o parse.o main.o findme.o
popt.o poptconfig.o popthelp.o poptparse.o  glib-1.2.8/.libs/libglib.al
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
setresuid                           popt.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to pkg-config
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `pkg-config'
Current working directory /usr/local/gtk2.4/pkgconfig-0.15.0
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
Current working directory /usr/local/gtk2.4/pkgconfig-0.15.0
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive-am'

I wasn't able to compile glib/pango/atk/gtk.



-Irix: Dependency libtiff fails:
--- all ---
= libtiff
smake: Error: Can't figure out how to make -. Stop
*** Error code 2
smake: Error: 1 error

as does pkg-config with its Makefile is not genric enough to support
mipspro but only gcc. I wasn't able to compile glib/pango/atk/gtk...


-Win32: not tested, while having so much problem under UN*X...

Thanks for your help on this issue.

Regards,


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Vincent Jamart - Free Field Technologies
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