On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, John Ralls wrote: > On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Paul Davis wrote: > > > >> I do not believe that using a pre-built GTK OS X framework is > >> desirable for users or developers. Include GTK as part of your > >> app bundle. Its not hard to do and gives you complete control > >> over which version of GTK is used by your app. > > > > I think this confuses two issues. I include a pre-built GTK as > > part of my app bundle for OS X, just as I do for MS Windows. > > It is difficult for me to build the GTK stack for OS X myself > > because I work on Linux and have only occasional access to an OS X > > machine. > > > > With the win32 binaries available from gtk.org, one can select the > > pre-built package that works best (i.e. "complete control over GTK > > version"). It would be great to be able to do that with OS X too, > > though of course I understand that Kris Rietveld casn't be > > expected to do all the work this would involve! > > Interesting point. ISTM that a framework is perhaps not the best > solution in this case. A tarball of the gtk+ and dependencies > installation folder would be easy to provide and would integrate well > with autotools. Would that help you? If so, what would be a good > prefix to build it into?
Thanks for the reply, and these are good questions. I admit the analogy with building for MS Windows is not perfect. * For a Windows build I use pre-built GTK "dev" files (for a cross-build on Linux), and distribute pre-built runtime files (DLLs etc.) with my app. * On OS X I use a pre-built GTK framework for both development and distribution. I currently use the OS X/X11 build of GTK 2.14.3 available from the R project. The dmg includes the required headers and pkgconfig files, so in building a GTK app all one has to do is give the right PKG_CONFIG_PATH. End-users don't need the "dev" files, but they get them anyway. It might be nice to have distinct pre-built "dev" and runtime GTK packages for OS X, and in that case it would probably make sense for the dev package to take the form of a tarball rather than a framework dmg. I guess my choice would be to root it in /opt/gtk or some such, but I don't think that matters a great deal. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
