Re: OSX and XQuartz support

[Andrew Wagner <apwagner alumni stanford edu>]

Thanks Antoine, 

This is the direction I’m heading in (using macports), my question is basically the feature request to add an 
X11 option (for users who have XQuartz) in the jhbuild module set. 

Cheers, 

Andrew

> On Nov 27, 2017, at 11:34 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine nagafix co uk> wrote:
>
> 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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