Re: [gtk-osx-devel] Gtk OSX build not working for me

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On May 21, 2019, at 4:21 AM, Matthew Allen via gtk-osx-devel-list <gtk-osx-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to follow the build guide here:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GTK/OSX/Building
>
> But it seems to be broken. Firstly the download link to 'gtk-osx-build-setup.sh' is broken. Not a good 
> omen. I'm assuming that maybe that file is here instead?
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx/blob/master/gtk-osx-setup.sh
>
> Anyway I tried running that and it eventually worked. The next command is:
> jhbuild bootstrap
>
> And that gets as far as:
> (build) bash-3.2$ jhbuild bootstrap
> Loading .env environment variables…
> *** Checking out m4 *** [1/29]
> jhbuild bootstrap: failed to unpack /Users/build/gtk/source/pkgs/m4-1.4.18.tar.xz
>
> I did previously add some paths to my profile:
> export PATH=/Users/build/.new_local/share/pyenv/versions/3.6.8/bin:/Users/build/.new_local/bin:$PATH
>
> And I've checked that my python version is actually 3.6.8. The system python is 2.7.
>
> Running from a new user account. I do have macports on my main account, but none of those paths are 
> available on the build account.
>
> I wish I could just download a complete pre-built version of Gtk3 for mac.

Sorry, I'm delinquent in updating the wiki page. The current build instructions are in the README at 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx underneath the file listing.

One major change is that you should run `jhbuild bootstrap-gtk-osx` instead of `jhbuild bootstrap`. 

Regards,
John Ralls