Re: OSX and XQuartz support

[Antoine Martin <antoine nagafix co uk>]

On 28/11/17 09:45, Andrew Wagner wrote:
> Hi Paul, 
>
> Thanks for the clarification. Your point about using the native Quartz
> windowing system is well taken and may be implemented in the future but
> right now thats a bit of a distraction for me. The code I want to
> compile is actually sitting in the source that jhbuild pulls down,
> namely ~/gtk/source/gtk+-2.24.31/gdk/x11 and I have XQuartz installed on
> my machine so I have the necessary X11 dependencies but I’m not fluent
> enough in the gtk dependency scheme to understand how modify the
> makefiles to build gtk against x11 on a mac.  
You can build gtk2 for X11 using macports:
https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=gtk2

Cheers
Antoine

> Cheers, 
>
> Andrew
>
>
> > On Nov 27, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com
> > <mailto:paul linuxaudiosystems com>> wrote:
> >
> > I think you're confused :)
> >
> > Quartz is the native MacOS windowing system. X11 exists as a rootless
> > X Window environment for Quartz. There is (to my knowledge) no sign of
> > XWayland for Mac OS/Quartz.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Andrea Giammarchi
> > <andrea giammarchi gmail com <mailto:andrea giammarchi gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> >     just wondering: wouldn't a quartz with XWayland on it be able to
> >     support that already?
> >
> >     On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Andrew Wagner
> >     <apwagner alumni stanford edu
> >     <mailto:apwagner alumni stanford edu>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > >         Begin forwarded message:
> > >
> > >         *From: *Andrew Wagner <apwagner alumni stanford edu
> > >         <mailto:apwagner alumni stanford edu>>
> > >         *Subject: **Re: OSX and XQuartz support*
> > >         *Date: *November 27, 2017 at 4:22:45 PM EST
> > >         *To: *Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com
> > >         <mailto:paul linuxaudiosystems com>>
> > >         *Cc: *Stephen Whiteley <stevew wrcad com
> > >         <mailto:stevew wrcad com>>
> > >
> > >         Hi Paul, 
> > >
> > >         The project isn’t meant to choose, just use the X11 backend.
> > >         The reason is that its written to be cross platform as much
> > >         as possible so X11 and GtK are the common framework. Its an
> > >         open source project found
> > >         here: https://github.com/wrcad/xictools
> > >         <https://github.com/wrcad/xictools> and any help you or
> > >         anyone can offer to streamline the GUI (or just the GUI
> > >         library installation) would be very welcome. 
> > >
> > >         Cheers, 
> > >
> > >         Andrew
> > >
> > >
> > > >         On Nov 27, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Paul Davis
> > > >         <paul linuxaudiosystems com
> > > >         <mailto:paul linuxaudiosystems com>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >         Why would your project choose to use the X11 backend? How
> > > >         would it choose?
> > > >
> > > >         On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Andrew Wagner
> > > >         <apwagner alumni stanford edu
> > > >         <mailto:apwagner alumni stanford edu>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >             Hi All,
> > > >
> > > >             I’m new to gtk and am installing it on my Mac since its
> > > >             a dependency for other code I’m developing. I
> > > >             successfully followed the OSX install instructions:
> > > >
> > > >             ./gtk-osx-build-setup.sh
> > > >             jhbuild bootstrap
> > > >             jhbuild build python meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap
> > > >             meta-gtk-osx-core
> > > >
> > > >             but noticed afterword that the x11 include files in the
> > > >             source directory had not been installed in the
> > > >             inst/include directory. The project I’m working on uses
> > > >             gtk via x11 rather than the native osx quartz. I was
> > > >             wondering if there was a module like meta-gtk-osx-x11 or
> > > >             meta-gtk-osx-xquartz that would install these for me (I
> > > >             have Xquartz installed)? Is there a way in the mean time
> > > >             to do this by hand? I know that macports has this sorted
> > > >             out but I like to try to get code “from the horses
> > > >             mouth” rather than the various Mac porting platforms.
> > > >             Thanks very much for your help.
> > > >
> > > >             Cheers,
> > > >
> > > >             Andrew Wagner
> > > >
> > > >
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