Re: [Gtk-osx-devs] building GTK2 on MACOSX

[Alain Hebert <alain hebert polymtl ca>]

M. Ralls,

Thank you for your answer. I think I will stay with Fink and X11. I  
was hoping to avoid the long
installation procedure of Fink and the possible incompatibility of  
Carbon on 64-bit macs. I am using
X11 to launch my application.

Alain Hebert

On 29-Jul-11, at 7:04 PM, John Ralls wrote:

>
> On Jul 29, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Alain Hebert wrote:
>
>> Dear developers,
>>
>> Would-it be possible, in future, to enable the installation of GTK+  
>> 2 (X Quartz) without having to
>> first delete Fink and MacPorts (or to unset environment variables).
>>
>> Thank you in advance and congratulation for your excellent work.
>>
>
> Not exactly the answer to your question (which I don't understand),  
> but to "Can you make it so that Gtk-OSX will build with a Fink or  
> MacPorts environment present?" No. The problem is that MacPorts and  
> especially Fink have their own dependency chains and library  
> configurations that are incompatible with running outside of their  
> environments. Those PATH and DYLD settings pull in the wrong  
> aclocals, pkgconfigs, and dylibs and break the build in Gtk-OSX. If  
> this really bothers you, go get them to be less anti-social and to  
> set themselves up without polluting the rest of your environment.
>
> Note, though, that .jhbuildrc-custom affords you full access to  
> Python, and the os module is already imported, so you can pretty  
> easily add a few lines to clean up your environment before calling  
> setup_sdk(). In order for me to add that to the template .jhbuildrc- 
> custom or to .jhbuildrc, I'd have to install both of them to test  
> against, and I'm not willing to do that. If you are, I'll add your  
> version to the repo as an alternate template.
>
> Similarly, you could de-pollute your environment by creating a  
> special bashrc-fink or bashrc-macports and run bash --rcfile foo to  
> easily setup for using whichever; this is essentially what jhbuild  
> shell does.
>
> Now as to why I don't understand your question: Gtk+-2 can be  
> installed by either Fink or MacPorts, but it can only be built with  
> one backend at a time, either X11 or quartz. (Gtk+-3 can be built  
> with multiple backends, but the quartz backend doesn't support that  
> very well yet.) MacPorts has had the ability to build quartz for  
> some time, AFAIK Fink is X11 only.  There's no requirement to use  
> Gtk-OSX to build Gtk+; in fact, some people build it with the stock  
> jhbuild modulesets.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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