Re: gtkmm and gtk-osx

[Chris Share <cpsmusic yahoo com>]

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From: Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>
To: Chris Share <cpsmusic yahoo com>
Cc: gtkmm-list gnome org
Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2008 9:30:26 PM
Subject: Re: gtkmm and gtk-osx

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 02:51 -0700, Chris Share wrote:
> So the next question is, how do I point gtkmm at gtk-osx rather than gtk+ (which is the default)?
> 
> Is this done by setting #include <gtkmm.h> to the gtk-osx version of the header?
> 
> I'm using pkg-config in the build so I guess I need to change where it points.
> 
> Or is it more complicated?

it can be a nightmare trying to do this on a system where you have
already installed the X11 versions of GTK via macports. when i started
doing this sort of thing, i spent several days slowly fixing problem
after problem until eventually,i had basically removed everything i ever
installed via macports.

you really have to make a committment to one version or the other. if
you plan to use gtk-osx, then i would advise you to hide or remove
anything that is part of the GTK dependency stack but what is installed
by macports. maybe i missed some simple way to avoid the problems, but
almost everything installed by macports (including autotools) caused
conflicts and problems when using jhbuild to build gtk-osx. possibly
clearing /opt/... from PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH would have
helped, but i needed *some* of the macports stuff initially (or rather,
i thought i did).

first thing to realize: you *must* build gtk-osx from source, along with
the whole GTK dependency stack. jhbuild makes this pretty easy, most of
the time.

just follow the build instructions, and you'll have gtk-osx installed in
~/gtk/inst

you then set PKG_CONFIG_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH to refer to
that, and subsequently, everything is peachy. any subsequent build
process with use the GTK  from gtk/osx.

--p

Thanks for the info. I'll have a think about it.

I'm primarily interested in using Cairo for a 2D graphics application and I've gotten a bit side-tracked regarding displaying things on the screen. 

I actually had a go at building gtk-osx a while ago as I was interested in helping out with the native mac version of your project (Ardour). I managed to get gtk-osx to build however I couldn't get the patch to work. Apparently the patch script had a bug. Not sure if it's been fixed.

Cheers,

Chris