If you have Xvfb available, that can serve as a dummy X server for such purposes. (vfb==virtual frame buffer). Unfortunately, it still requires a bunch of X infrastructure such as font libraries, X shared libs, etc.
On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:02, Steven LeMaire <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried adding the [NSApplication sharedApplication] but when I run the > program with that in the code, it attempts to connect to a X server (which > there is none in this case) and ends. > > For the NEEDS_GUI=YES, do I just plug that anywhere in the makefile ? > > thsnks ! > > > On 2013-02-27, at 3:10 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote: > >> >> >> Am 27.02.2013 um 05:07 schrieb Germán "A. Arias" <[email protected]>: >> >>> El mar, 26-02-2013 a las 22:04 -0500, Steven LeMaire escribió: >>>> Hello Everyone, >>>> >>>> I'm looking at writing a simple program that will run scheduled on a >>>> server, which will query a database and using the results, generate a PDF >>>> report to be emailed to some users. I'm not too sure how I should go about >>>> doing this, my first attempt at this was to write a tool that creates an >>>> NSTextView, and simply inserts the text into it. It would then use the >>>> NSPrintOperation PDFOperationWithTextView method to create an >>>> NSMutableData object, which could them be written to a file. >>>> >>>> The problem I'm having now is, it requires AppKit, so I'm building with >>>> application.make included in my makefile, but it then is complaining >>>> there's no shared application object. >>>> Basically, I don't want a graphical interface, so I'm not sure where to go >>>> from here. >>>> >>>> Any guidance would be appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Steven >>>> >>> >>> Make a tool instead an app. You only need add in GNUmakefile: >>> >>> NEEDS_GUI = YES >> >> That wont help much. What you need to do is initialize the application. Just >> add [NSApplication sharedApplication] somewhere in your code before you use >> any of the other gui classes. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
