Re: [gtk-osx-users] GTK OSX and Mojave

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Jan 25, 2019, at 7:32 AM, Gabriele Greco via gtk-osx-users-list <gtk-osx-users-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm trying to do a new installation of GTK with JHbuild, I'm having a few problem with python, libxml2 and 
> the build process.
>
> If I do:
>
> jhbuild bootstrap
> jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap
>
> the second command fails because libxml2 does not work with the apple provided python
>
> if I run:
>
> jhbuild bootstrap
> jhbuild build python meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap
>
> ... the second step works, but then it fails on :
>
> jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-core
>
> with the error
>
> jhbuild build: could not download 
> http://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx/raw/master/modulesets-stable/gtk-osx.modules: <urlopen error unknown 
> url type: https>
>
> .... because I think the jhbuild python does not support openssl.
>
> I read an old thread that says to break the python build and manually add openssl dependency but there is a 
> more elegant way, for instance in the .jhbuild-custom to fix this behaviour?

You can do jhbuild build openssl python meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap meta-gtk-osx-core to get python built with 
openssl support, or you can use python3 instead of python; that's recommended because Gnome dropped python2 
support from several of their packages recently.

You can also try out the pipenv branch of gtk-osx-build from my GitHub repo, 
https://github.com/jralls/gtk-osx-build/tree/pipenv. That sets up a python environment with a pre-set-up 
python so you don't need to build one. That's the future of gtk-osx because it's needed to support meson, but 
I haven't been able to get my head above water long enough to finish it up and merge it.

Regards,
John Ralls