Re: [Gretl-devel] OS X build process
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> make clean ; make
Ah, of course.
Then I got an error because I previously had only removed the
fink package libxml2 and not libxml2-shlibs. For libxml2-shlibs
again one has to do --recursive which clears out quite many
packages. I wonder whether the fink installation will be good
for anything else than building gretl afterwards ;-)
I think this should probably work: make sure you use the flag
"--without-gnome" when configuring gretl, and make sure that
/sw/lib/pkgconfig comes after /usr/lib/pkgconfig and
/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig in your PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Then, with any
luck, gretl will pick up libxml2 from OS X and not Fink. That way
one shouldn't have to trash all those Fink packages.
Oh and it seems that this affects gtksourceview, too, so that
will be missing in the build I guess (whatever that means,
because in the end syntax coloring is there).
If gretl doesn't find an installed gtksourceview, it uses its own
version. This is preferable unless one is doing a build for
a fully-fledged gnome system. As with gnome, though, you should
be able to stop gretl from using an installed gtksourceview by
adding "--without-gtksourceview" to the configure flags.
Gnuplot also gave an error again, as I had also forgotten to
remove aquaterm-shlibs (including -dev).
On aquaterm: I thought that "/sw/Library/..." path looked
suspicous. But if it's correct, it should probably be possible to
use an aquaterm-enabled build of gnuplot in the gretl package.
This would require that aquaterm.dylib (or whatever it's called)
is copied from its Fink location to the lib directory under
Gretl.app/Contents/Resources as with the other Fink libs.
Ok, building all over... success -- at least when starting from
the terminal via ./gretl. (of course with fink disabled)
Double-clicking also works!
Ah, nice.
creating the dmg I stumbled over cp; one needs the coreutils
package and watch out a bit -- quoted from the fink database
page:
"The commands are named with 'g' prefix like 'gls' or 'gcp'.
If you want to
use them as 'ls' or 'cp', add /sw/lib/coreutils/bin to your PATH or
install
the coreutils-default package."
OK, thanks for the info; that's a change relative to my Fink
installation. (Or possibly I installed coreutils-default and
forgot about it; I'll see if I can check that.)
Ok, I created the dmg alright (hopefully).
The resulting dmg should be available from:
www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/profs/nautz/downloads/software/gretl.dmg
To anybody else reading this: this is highly experimental, use
this only for testing purposes! And it's not a 100% current cvs
version, either. What else? Intel only. Maybe 10.5 (Leopard)
only, but I'm sure Allin will test it on 10.4.
Thanks, I'll give it a try on 10.4 this evening.
Allin.