RE: [gtkmm] gtkmm2, gconfmm, libglademm installer for Mac OS X

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

Sorry, my SMTP server just sent an old reply. This was either outdated or
already dealt with. Still, your reply was interesting.

Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc usa net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Missig [mailto:julian jabber org] 
> Sent: Dienstag, 20. Januar 2004 19:58
> To: murrayc usa net
> Cc: gtkmm-list; Murray Cumming Comneon com; Thomas Muldowney
> Subject: Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm2, gconfmm, libglademm installer 
> for Mac OS X
> 
> 
> Ok, here's how I built it.
> 
> Grab DarwinPorts. I have Panther with X11 and X11 SDK.
> 
> The gtk+ dependencies I installed are: atk, expat, fontconfig, 
> freetype, gettext, glib2, gtk2, jpeg, libpng, libungif, pango, 
> pkgconfig, tiff, Xft2, xrender
> 
> For libglade2, I modified the portfile to not depend on gnome, so my 
> libglade2 does not depend on gnome, but it also cannot use gnome 
> widgets. libxml2 is required.
> 
> Gconf needs linc, orbit2, gconf
> 
> In the Portfiles for libsigc++, gtkmm2, libglademm, and 
> gconfmm, I used 
> these values for configure.env (in other words, these were passed to 
> configure):
> CPPFLAGS="-L${prefix}/lib -I${prefix}/include" 
> CFLAGS="-no-cpp-precomp -flat_namespace -undefined suppress"
> 
> After configure happened, I modified the generated 'libtool' 
> script. I 
> changed CC and LTCC to use 'g++' instead of 'gcc'
> 
> After that, they build and run fine with the setup I described.
> 
> And murray, I'm not expecting or asking anything of you. I don't know 
> why you get that idea. I'm just presenting this stuff that I built, 
> that is all. You're under no obligation to do anything at all with it.
> 
> Julian
> 
> On 20 Jan, 2004, at 4:52, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 19:54, Julian Missig wrote:
> >> On 12 Jan, 2004, at 13:38, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> Well, anyway, I'll be leaving campus soon and no longer 
> have this 
> >>>>> bandwidth.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The packages are at 
> >>>>> http://skadi.res.cmu.edu/~julian/gtkmm-packages.dmg
> >>>>
> >>>> I have downloaded them for safety. I am a bit reluctant to put 
> >>>> binary packages on gtkmm.org until
> >>>> - I am sure that they will be maintained in future. Isn't there 
> >>>> some central repository for things like this?
> >>
> >> DarwinPorts does not host binary packages. Fink hosts 
> binary versions 
> >> of their packages... eventually...
> >
> > I do want to see the discussion in which the Fink people apparently 
> > refused to help you to package gtkmm for Fink. So far I have heard 
> > nothing specific, so I have nothing to tell the people who 
> want gtkmm 
> > in Fink.
> >
> >>  but these were generated using
> >> DarwinPorts, which uses a different path prefix from Fink. 
> Fink also 
> >> does not use these double-clickable installers like 
> DarwinPorts can 
> >> produce.
> >
> > That sounds like a nice feature.
> >
> >>  osxgnu ( http://www.osxgnu.org/ ) hosts binary packages, 
> but I'm not 
> >> sure whether they'd host something generated by DarwinPorts.
> >>
> >>>> - The build process is documented. I would like a README.MacOSX, 
> >>>> like our current README.win32 and README.SUN
> >>>> - I see that you have at least tried to get libtool 
> fixed instead 
> >>>> of patching it locally.
> >>
> >> What more do you want me to do?
> >
> > Like I say, I would like the build process to be 
> documented, just as 
> > it is for our other unusual platforms.
> >
> >>  I've contacted all the people I can and
> >> no one seems to know why it works like that or give a shit.
> >
> > For the libtool thing, you could point me to the email 
> discussion in 
> > an archive or a bug report. Then I could take it further if 
> you don't 
> > want to. At least we would have something to point to in our 
> > documentation.
> >
> >>>> I do appreciate your efforts, but I don't want them to be wasted.
> >>
> >> Whatever. I made these so that my users could get gtkmm installed.
> >> I've
> >> battled with this stuff for so long with so many unhelpful people I
> >> honestly don't care whether they're "officially" 
> distributed anywhere.
> >> I have something which works, so that's good enough to get 
> Gabber2 on
> >> OS X. I'm done as far as I'm concerned.
> >
> > If gtkmm.org hosts them, then we'd need someone who will package 
> > future gtkmm releases as well. Sorry, but you can't expect anything 
> > else.
> >
> > --
> > Murray Cumming
> > murrayc usa net
> > www.murrayc.com
> >
>