There appeared to be a bit of interest among Windows and OSX users
at the NWAPRS Summer Gathering this weekend. VMWare Appliances were
the way most of those installs got accomplished.
I tried to help with source installs on OSX using MacPorts, but ran
into a lot of trouble. I believe Xastir's "configure" was set up
earlier to handle Fink packages ("/sw" directory), but not MacPorts
("/opt/local" directory).
This looks to be the proper setup for Fink:
http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-general.php?phpLang=en#compile-myself
Which says:
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"export CFLAGS=-I/sw/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib
export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS
export CPPFLAGS=$CXXFLAGS
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /sw/share/aclocal"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/sw/lib/pkgconfig"
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4
(assuming that the build system is running OS 10.4 or later)
It is often easiest just to add these to your startup files (e.g.
.cshrc | .profile) so they are set automatically. If a package does
not use these variables, you may need to add the "-I/sw/include"
(for headers) and "-L/sw/lib" (for libraries) to the compile lines
yourself. Some packages may use similar non-standard variables such
as EXTRA_CFLAGS or --with-qt-dir= configure options. "./configure
--help" will usually give you a list of the extra configure
options."
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I can't find an equivalent set of instructions for MacPorts. Here's
the kind of stuff I started to work on which didn't work for several
of the libraries:
./configure --with-motif-libs=/usr/openmotif/lib
--with-motif-includes=/usr/openmotif/include/Xm
--includedir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/libgeotiff/1.2.1_0/opt/local/include
--includedir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/proj/4.6.0_0/opt/local/include
--with-bdb-incdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/db46/4.6.21_1/opt/local/include/db46
--libdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/libgeotiff/1.2.1_0/opt/local/lib
--libdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/proj/4.6.0_0/opt/local/lib
--with-bdb-libdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/db46/4.6.21_1/opt/local/lib/db46
I wasn't real happy that most of the libraries installed via
MacPorts were that many levels down _and_ had version numbers in the
directory names. How are other pieces of software supposed to be
able to find them? Perhaps they also got installed into
/opt/local/lib/
and
/opt/local/include/
and I was just spinning my wheels trying to enumerate all of the
above directories? Perhaps the MacPorts packages for the libraries
we installed were done incorrectly?
As I recall these flags worked for us:
--with-motif-libs=/usr/openmotif/lib
--with-motif-includes=/usr/openmotif/include/Xm
--with-bdb-incdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/db46/4.6.21_1/opt/local/include/db46
--with-bdb-libdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/db46/4.6.21_1/opt/local/lib/db46
"./configure -h" shows flags to specify the paths for X, Motif, and
Berkeley DB (BDB), but not for any of the other libraries.
Here's what I'd _like_ to have happen:
*) Fink installs go into /sw/lib and /sw/include and not further
below!
*) MacPorts installs go into /opt/local/lib and /opt/local/include
and not further below!
*) Xastir's autoconf gets modified to handle the first two above.
*) Xastir's autoconf gets modified to add path flags for the other
libraries (and perhaps executables that we use).
With a small amount of work by us the OSX people could also have an
easy source install of Xastir.
--
Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com
http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
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