Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

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Joe Koski a =E9crit :
> on 10/20/06 3:53 PM, Timoth=E9e Lecomte at tim...@en... wrot=
e:
>
>  =20
>>> 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 h=
ad to
>>> install (and sometimes in a specific order) wxMac, atk, pkg-config, g=
lib,
>>> gettext, freetype, fontconfig, pango, cairo, and gtk+.
>>>      =20
>> gtk+ is absolutely not necessary when you use wxMac (it is if you use
>> wxGTK, though gnuplot does not absolutely depend on it - only for soem
>> tweaks). atk is a gtk+ dependency, so it's not needed either. freetype
>> isn't supposed to be needed, since cairo is capable of using native Ma=
c
>> fonts system (so-called "atsui" system). Fontconfig is only necessary
>> for the cairo freetype backend, so you don't need it either.
>>    =20
>
> Timoth=E9e,
>
> I went back and removed fontconfig, freetype, pango, and atk. I got
> cairo-1.2.4 to build and install successfully with
>
>   ./configure --enable-atsui --enable-quartz --enable-freetype=3Dno
> --enable-xlib=3Dno
>
> Question: Do I need xlib for wxt on a Mac?
>  =20
No, you don't.

> I then went back and rebuilt and reinstalled wxMac-2.6.3 in case it was
> dependent on cairo for headers, libraries, etc.
>
> Then I attempted a rebuild of gnuplot-4.2.rc1. The ./configure is still
> looking for pango:
> <snip>
>
> As a result, no wxt terminal was built. Is there a way to not use pango=
 and
> still build a wxt terminal?
>  =20
No, there isn't. Pango is needed, it's a direct dependency for the wxt=20
terminal. However you can build it without freetype and without fontconfi=
g.

Thanks again for your efforts.

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e