Re: [gtk-osx-users] Installation errors and uninstalling

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Sep 20, 2020, at 9:00 PM, Jovier A Jimenez <jimenezj mit edu> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I’m not an experienced developer but I have been used to using the Python GTK+ bindings in order to build 
> GUI’s for my Python applications. I stumbled upon the gtk-osx build but during the installation, namely, 
> building the core and gtk3 dependencies, I encountered some errors that made it seemingly impossible to 
> build glib, cairo, gobject-introspection, etc. 
>
> Now, I’m not super familiar with these terms and I probably mixed them up, but I can tell that there is 
> something missing or linked incorrectly which is why I’m not getting a successful installation. One idea I 
> have about why it’s not installing correctly is that I may not have the command-line developer tools 
> correctly installed. I didn’t want Xcode installed on my system but I did try to run the command 
> xcode-select —install , however, I believe I had some errors downloading from Apple’s servers and I’m not 
> sure if another package installation may have fixed this issue. 
>
> At the end of the day, I switched to macOS to avoid digging my computer into a grave like I did with my 
> Linux system, so if there is an easy fix for this then I will attempt to do it. Otherwise, I would like to 
> know if there is an existing script to reverse all of the changes I’ve made to my system by running all of 
> the commands in the GNOME installation tutorial page (quickstart commands have all been run).
>
> I appreciate any help I can get, thanks in advance!

Welcome. You need to subscribe to the list at https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-osx-users-list.

xcode-select -install requires root, so you should have done sudo xcode-select -install. Did you?

If you didn't set any of the gtk-osx-setup.sh environment variables when running it it will have put almost 
everything in ~/.new-local and ~/Source. The default prefix for your build attempt is ~/gtk. Removing those 
three directories will clean up all but two files, ~/.config/jhbuildrc and ~/.config/jhbuildrc-custom.

With the answers to your direct questions out of the way, let's try to figure out why your build didn't work. 
Nearly everything in the build depends on modules before it building successfully so it's never wise to 
continue if a module fails until you've gotten that module built and installed.

What's the first failure?

Regards,
John Ralls