On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Christopher Kilding <[email protected]>wrote:
> Recently I decided to finally sanitise and organise my photo collection on > my Mac which was previously a mess. However I found my choice of apps to do > this was pretty much limited to iPhoto - which for a couple of reasons may > be undesirable, notably the monolithic proprietary database it stores the > photos in, the tendency of said database to get corrupted when it gets > large, and the suggestions that version '11 might possibly be worse than the > previous version '09 in some respects. The fact that it has to compete with > - or in other words yield to - its bigger brother Aperture is also not > ideal. > > With that in mind, I've set out to bring Shotwell to Snow Leopard. The > first step was to see if the vanilla source in the Git repo will compile. So > far compilation against Macports has *almost* worked, in that all > dependencies have been pulled in and work except for the following: > - 2 dependencies are missing from Macports, gexiv2 and gudev-1.0; > - and 2 should work but don't; libsoup - because "file > /opt/local/lib/gio/modules/libgiolibproxy.so does not exist" so that can't > be built - and webkit, which depends on libsoup, fails too. > > Any ideas on how to fix this? > > Thanks in advance. > I suspect you're the first person to try this in some time. I can't say I know how to get it compiling on OS X, but I do have one tip for you: gexiv2 is a library we provide. You can find more info on it here: http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/gexiv2 - Eric _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
