Re: [Vala] vala on a mac

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

I'm also very interested in having gtk3 running happy on osx. I wrote a home pkgsystem named slpm 
(hg.youterm.com/slpm) which can compile gtk3 from last releases. But i was unable to get anything but a white 
window in osx. I have yo yest again on latest release.

Nerverteless. Using slpm you will be able to get all deps for your dmg freshly and ready with a single 
command. And some waiting time.. To compile :P

I then build gtk2 natively in osx and got a working version but there are some damagedarea issues.. Like 
changing tab and not getting contents upfated til you resize the window.

I woulf love to have kinetic scrolling support.. But looks like theres a serious bug in event system which 
prevents this to be implemented without hacks.

I love gtk. But outside xorg its a bit buggy. Oh well.. On w32 i have no idea the state.. I dont know how the 
wayland backend works if its stable enought or what..

I understand this is not the right mailing list to talk about it. But i think gtk need some people to work on 
it. And certainly im absolutely out of time to get more projects.

On 06/09/2011, at 17:24, august <august alien mur at> wrote:

> wow.  This is also very helpful.  Thanks for this.
>
> Do you happen to know if GTK3 will be maintained on OSX?  Are the bugs
> you mention ones that can be squashed?  It would be great to eventually
> put together a workflow that is completely cross-compilable using vala.
>
> -august.
>
> > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:29 PM, august <august alien mur at> wrote:
> > > Thanks for this.  There's some good info in there.
> > >
> > > I'm sure there will be some differences with GTK+3, but this gives me a
> > > great place to starts.
> >
> > fyi GTK 3 is still pretty buggy on OS X, with rendering bugs, crashes
> > etc, but it does work somewhat, and each new bug opened in bugzilla is
> > a win for all of us who are determined to stick with GTK for UI on OS
> > X as well :)
> >
> > For integrating with the menu, dock etc, and also .app packaging, you
> > can find some stuff over here:
> >
> > https://github.com/jralls
> >
> > -- 
> > Daniel Svensson
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