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
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