Re: [Gtk-osx-users] GTKmm

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On May 23, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Chris Share wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to have a go at building guitarix (http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/) on OS X.
> 
> I've installed gtk-osx.
> 
> Guitarix has the following dependencies:
> 
> ladspa-sdk   gtk+-2.0 >= 2.12.0   gtkmm-2.0 >= 2.12.0   gthread-2.0 >= 2.10   sigc++-2.0   zita-convolver   zita-resampler   sndfile >= 1.0.17  jack (jackd, libjack, and dev) >= 0.109.1
> boost library >= 1.38
> 
> 
> As a first step I need to install gtkmm (?)
> 
> I've tried to do this using a jhbuild shell however I'm getting the following errors:
> 
> ./waf configure
> Checking for program msgfmt              : /Users/chris/gtk/inst/bin/msgfmt 
> Checking for program intltool-merge      : /Users/chris/gtk/inst/bin/intltool-merge 
> Checking for program g++ or c++          : /usr/bin/g++ 
> Checking for program cpp                 : /usr/bin/cpp 
> Checking for program ar                  : /usr/bin/ar 
> Checking for program ranlib              : /usr/bin/ranlib 
> Checking for g++                         : ok  
> Checking for jack <= 1.8.0               : yes 
> Checking for sndfile >= 1.0.17           : yes 
> Checking for gmodule-export-2.0          : yes 
> Checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.16.0          : yes 
> Checking for gthread-2.0 >= 2.10         : yes 
> Checking for gtkmm-2.4                   : not found 
> /Users/chris/Programming/MyProgramming/gx_head-0.14.0/gx_head-0.14.0/wscript:376: error: the configuration failed (see '/Users/chris/Programming/MyProgramming/gx_head-0.14.0/gx_head-0.14.0/build/config.log')
> 
> I'm not clear about how I should install gtkmm-2.4. Should I do this using a jhbuild shell or can I do it using the Terminal?
> 
> Any other advice would be appreciated.

Gtkmm is a supported module. You need only

jhbuild build gtkmm

That will pull in sigc++.

After that you should write a moduleset to build the other dependencies and finally guitarix. You may have some coding work to get the sound libraries to work with OSX's CoreAudio.

Regards,
John Ralls