Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

[<tim...@en...>]

Joe Koski wrote:
> Per,
>
> I'm both ahead of you, and way behind you on this. I have a working cop=
y of
> wxt on my Mac, but it doesn't respond to get focus via the mouse. The
> diagnosis relayed by Timoth=E9e of bundling sounds like the correct pro=
blem
> solution.
>  =20

"Bundling" is probably the right solution.
Alternatively, you can try the attached patch that is documented=20
elsewhere to fix the same problem (apply to src/wxterminal, in addition=20
to the previous patch).


> First, from a Mac user's perspective, wxt uses an entire boat load of
> dependencies that are not normally seen on the Mac. To build wxt, I had=
 to
> install (and sometimes in a specific order) wxMac, atk, pkg-config, gli=
b,
> gettext, freetype, fontconfig, pango, cairo, and gtk+.
gtk+ is absolutely not necessary when you use wxMac (it is if you use=20
wxGTK, though gnuplot does not absolutely depend on it - only for soem=20
tweaks). atk is a gtk+ dependency, so it's not needed either. freetype=20
isn't supposed to be needed, since cairo is capable of using native Mac=20
fonts system (so-called "atsui" system). Fontconfig is only necessary=20
for the cairo freetype backend, so you don't need it either.

> I never did get fontconfig to install completely. The fontconfig Makefi=
le
> works ok for the make part of the build if you add -framework CoreServi=
ces
> to the link line via export LDFLAGS, but make install does not use LDFL=
AGS,
> and I haven't been able to "break the code" on how to add the framework=
 for
> the make install part of the Makefile. My two separate requests to the
> fontconfig mail list have been unanswered. They either think I'm anothe=
r
> idiot Mac user, or I'm a spammer, because I get strange echoes of my
> messages, as if they are being filtered. My ISP (COMCAST) is a notoriou=
s
> source of spam e-mails, so they may simply be filtering me out and igno=
ring
> me. Have you had any experience with that list? Incidentally, wxt does =
not
> work without the incomplete installation of fontconfig. I found that th=
e
> hard way when I removed the partial installation.
>  =20
Again, you should be able not to use fontconfig at all.

> The only part of X11 that I'm using now is the fontconfig that's instal=
led
> in X11R6. By pointing an environment variable at the fontconfig that's
> included with X11, I can get cairo to build and install. I would like t=
o
> avoid X11 entirely, since that's the principal aim of the exercise.
>  =20
Idem.
> I'll report when I make some progress. Let me know if you have any bril=
liant
> flashes of insight.
>  =20
We'll make our best !

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e