Re: [gtk-osx-users] gtk2 failing to build + no pangoft2

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Jan 19, 2020, at 12:43 PM, David Cooke <djcooke wintree plus com> wrote:
>
> Having amended your earlier advice, I ran the following:
>
>
> rm -r $PREFIX
> rm -r $PREFIX/../.cache
>
> jhbuild bootstrap-gtk-osx
> jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap icu meta-gtk-osx-freetype
> meta-gtk-osx-core
>
> Now, as before, gtk fails to build, failing at gdkaliasdef.c with the
> message:
>
> aliases are not supported on darwin
>
> I'd be very glad if you would be kind enough to advise what is the next
> thing I should bother to do.
>
>
> For the record, I have found no modulesets-stable directory on disk.  I
> found gtk-osx-bootstrap.modules in $PREFIX/../.cache/jhbuild

The modulesets aren't on your local disk unless you clone the repo.

The Gimp developer knew about the aliasing problem but thought it was local to his system so he didn't tell 
me, and since my projects are Gtk3-based I seldom build Gtk2 anymore. Testing showed that it first occurred 
with Xcode 8 on 10.12 so it's been around for a while.

It turns out that there's a simple solution, just add --disable-visibility to autopen-args. I've made that 
change and pushed it so you should be able to build now. If you're sitting at an error prompt you'll need to 
quit and restart jhbuild to get the new module.

Regards,
John Ralls