Re: GUI

on 12/24/08 8:52 AM, Steffan Cline at steffan@hldns.com wrote:

>
> on 12/24/08 8:30 AM, Dominic Lachowicz at domlachowicz@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Have you tried Fink?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Steffan A. Cline <steffan@hldns.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> on 12/23/08 8:30 PM, Dominic Lachowicz at domlachowicz@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Steffan,
>>>>
>>>> You need to install glib (and probably a few other libraries like
>>>> libgsf, libxml2, zlib, libpng). glib is required. glib isn't a
>>>> graphical toolkit. it is used by gtk+, which is a graphical toolkit.
>>>> so maybe that's the source of confusion.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck,
>>>> Dom
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Steffan A. Cline <steffan@hldns.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I had emailed Dominic in a reply to the helpful info he sent earlier but
>>>>> wasn't sure what the best path was to follow. I was trying to build
>>>>> abiword
>>>>> as a headless tool which failed but found that all platforms of MacOS X
>>>>> that
>>>>> I tried whether it be PPC or Intel the builds always fail at
>>>>>
>>>>> checking for GLIB... configure: error:
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone seen this or successfully built this under MacOS X?
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Has anyone statically linked these before? I see I will have an uphill
>>> battle. I've tried cross-compiling on MacOS X before with no luck. I always
>>> have to build on an intel and again on a ppc machine then use lipo to make a
>>> universal binary to distribute the tool. This has been fine but I've never
>>> had to contend with so many dependencies.
>>>
>>> I saw somewhere that there were some downloadable dmg files for MacOS X but
>>> I can't recall where and I don't think those were up to date.
>>>
>>> Anymore suggestions?
>>>
>>> BTW, Dominic, thanks for all your help thus far!
>>>
> No, I have not tried fink. The reason for this is that it installs all it's
> libs and the like in it's own preset locations and would most likely not be
> built statically.
>
> The thing is that in the past when I have distributed binaries I build them
> into a custom path that the users can then delete if they want and it
> greatly simplifies removals and changes.
>
> I'm looking at MacPorts in an effort to save some time but I am not sure if
> it'll work for my situation.
>
> I just asked the list hoping someone had been down this road before.
>
>

I just looked at the site and on the download page it has a link to a MacOS
X dmg file but it's 2.4.5 and not 2.6.5, the most current. I downloaded it
and navigated to the binary and just did a simple ./Abiword which is cool
but it tries to launch the gui. Did Dom build this? I see it has the dylibs
in there. I thought about changing the compiler flags to see if it will
search there first and build where as it was failing with glib. I could then
just use those same dylibs with the new source and build without cococa.
I'll try that I guess.

Thanks

Steffan

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Received on Wed Dec 24 17:14:48 2008