GTK-Applications with MacOSX

Maintenant · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

I've finally managed to compile my favourite GTK application GQView under MacOSX. This is, how I did it:

emerge pkgconfig
emerge libtiff
emerge jpeg
emerge libpng
emerge fontconfig
emerge freetype
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc-macos" emerge glib
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc-macos" emerge atk
Unfortunately, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc-macos" emerge pango failed to compile. So, do this instead:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/pkgconfig
download pango1.4.1, unpack it, run ./configure make make install
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
download gtk+-2.4.9 from www.gtk.org, unpack it, run ./configure make make install

Now, you have a working gtk+.2.4.9 in /usr/local

In order to install GTK applications, remember to set your PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig, download the application of your choice, run ./configure, make and make install. For me, it worked with gqview. In future, I wanna try to compile rox and scite.

Marculin · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 376

You have compiled gaim 1.1.2 and xchat 2.4.1?
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Maintenant · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

No, I haven't sorry. I don't really have an interest in those programs. But I successfully compiled gqview, scite and rox. Check what happens, if you do ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" emerge -p gaim . If gtk+ is the last dependency before gaim, it should be possible to compile gaim, too.
Right now, I don't have my iBook with me. But if you like, I can try to compile these programs within in the next few days and post my results here.

Maintenant · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

I tried to compile gaim and xchat. Unfortunately, xchat had problems with some X11 libraries. But gaim compiled beautifully and works!

Marculin · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 376

oh...very good

It's possible make a ebuild fofr gaim and gqview and insert in portage?
gtk2 not emerge automatically and simple

thank you
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Maintenant · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

It's probably possible. But to tell you the truth, I don't know how. I am not a Gentoo developer. At the moment, I'm rather busy with final exams. Once I have some more time, I will study ebuilds and stuff. it wouldn't be a bad thing, if somebody could repair the pango ebuild first. If that is done, it shouldn't be a problem to make ebuild for gtk, gqview and gaim. Does anybody know, who is in charge of Portage for MacOSX development?

sapo_selo · n00b Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 26 Location: Portugal

maybe if u ask in #gentoo-osx @ irc.freenode.org maybe somebody knows there

Marculin · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 376

thank...I ask in chan
@Maintenant:great

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Maintenant · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

I've tried to repair the pango ebuild. But unfortunately, I didn't succeed. I always get a libtool error even when I exclude the gentoo libtool patches from the ebuild. Has anybody managed to emerge pango successfully? Without pango, it won't be possible to install gtk+.

zojas · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:57 am Post subject:

that doesn't count!

anyway, I'm stuck on pango now too. bug #63189 has the same problem in it that I do.
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zojas · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:34 pm Post subject:

update: pango-1.4.1-r1 emerged fine for me. now I can't get gtk+ to find the pango library (even though it exists)
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Maintenant · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

That's great news! Have you performed any rituals to make it work or have you simply emerged it? I haven't tried emerging pango for quite some time now. But now I'm very anxious to do so. Now, I'm running Tiger on my machine, maybe that makes things easier....

zojas · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject:

I'm running on tiger too.

most of the ebuilds needed some work. after getting the dependencies emerged, pango emerged. this thread has links to all the bugs with info about how to get various dependencies to build:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-343234.html

the most contentious is the one for XML Parser perl module. I used the perl module eclass which the perl herd people disapprove of. (it works great though).

another key is to add both 'macos' and 'ppc-macos' to your USE flags.

also, I've needed to use gcc 3.3. you can use the 'gcc_select' program in tiger to switch your system to use gcc 3.3.

and finally, pango emerged, but the shared libraries didn't have the .dylib filemame extension, so the configure script for gtk+ couldn't find them. some symbolic links fixed that.

now if only I could get gtk+ to build... anyway I've posted the last error I'm getting, and I also filed a bug for it. when I started out it looked hopeless, now it's almost there!
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zojas · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject:

here's a list of all the packages I currently have emerged on my system.

I almost forgot; I had to emerge automake 1.7.9-r1 since gtk+ uses features from that version. I also had to export some environment variables so it would use the newer automake. I still need to file a bug for automake.

Maintenant · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

Looks like you did a great jobbing making Darwin-portage emerge automake.
How did you do that? Although all automake ebuilds have the "~ppc-macos" flag, portage refuses to emerge it.
Now, this is what I did so far:
Using gcc-4.0 (!), I emerged

1) gettext, pkgconfig, jpeg, libtiff, libpng (all stable)
2) glib, pango, atk (all testing)
The tricky part was XML-Parser. But all you need is a littel hack:

ln -s /System/Library/Perl /usr/lib/perl5

That should be sufficient to run "emerge shared-mime-libs" successfully.
Now, I've reached the point of getting gtk+ to compile because of automake.

zojas · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject:

It's masked out somehow, and I couldn't figure how to unmask it. so I went to the directory where the automake ebuild file was, and used ebuild:

Maintenant · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

I think it worked!
I emerged automake as your wrote me and added symbolic links for pango-dylibs.
Unfortunately, setting environment variables for automake-1.7.9 didn't work for me, so I created a symbolic link from automake to automake-1.7. Then, I emerged gtk+ by path like

zojas · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

that's odd, I'm getting basically the same error from 2.4.14 I got from 2.4.9-r1. a missing symbol from libJPEG:

Maintenant · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 30

That's really odd... Maybe it's because I didn't set the jpeg flag, I don't know.
The really odd thing is that I successfully manage to emerge gtk+, but gtk+-based applications just like scite or gqview don't recognize it!
As for now, I have stopped dealing with gtk+ under OSX. At the moment I have to worry about things that are far more important than that. But please keep me posted. This is a most fascinating thread!

strogg · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 10

Can anyone tell me what symbolic links i should create to make the gtk+-2.4.9 compile realize that the pango libs are really there? i'm kinda stuck at that one point. thanks.

zojas · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:29 am Post subject:

strogg · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 10

thanks! so far so good... it's compiling now, and it isn't seeming to let up!

strogg · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 10

just to let all three people who care know, i got it working! the only differences between my approach and others is the following:

--emerged automake with all dependencies using emerge /usr/portage/sys-devel/automake-whatever/blah.ebuild approach unless there is a cyclical dependency, then i emerged the wrapper first using the ebuild blah.ebuild fetch unpack compile install qmerge approach.
--i emerged EVERYTHING including gtk+ 2.4 (which i had to download the ebuild/digest/patches for since 2.4 has been removed from portage).
--i wasn't afraid to use FEATURES="-collision-protect", although i feel lucky it didn't fubar anything in the mac os base.

but i haven't tested if gtk really works or not. 2.4 is a really old, deprecated version of gtk. my goal is to get 2.6 working right now so i can run most applications out there. i'll deal with 2.8 when i have time. so far, i'm stuck at the new pango emerge. i'll post my results for people later on if anyone's interested.

BennyP · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:09 pm Post subject:

I'm keen on getting gtk working on my ibook... any progress since august?
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betaphi1319 · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:26 pm Post subject:

I posted a note to bug 109964 regarding Pango 1.10.1, but I'm still stuck also...