Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

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Joe Koski wrote:
> <snip>
> Timoth=E9e, Per,
>
> We're now back to the focus issue in with the wxt terminal, but more on=
 that
> later.
>
> To summarize my progress so far:
>
> I now have installed on my Mac: cairo, pango, gettext, wxMac, and pkg-c=
onfig
> above and beyond the usual Xcode-2.4 tools. Are any of these unnecessar=
y for
> building wxt on the Mac?
>  =20
I am not sure about gettext, but I guess it's a dependency of glib,=20
right ? If it's the case, you're all set.
> To build cairo, I did
>
>  ./configure --enable-atsui --enable-quartz --enable-freetype=3Dno
> --enable-xlib=3Dno
>
> After two minor corrections to the pango build (thanks to Behdad on the
> gtk-i18n Mail List), I built pango with
>
>   ./configure --with-x=3Dno
>  =20
Ok. Good to know.

> Then I went back and rebuilt gnuplot-4.2.rc1, including wxt, with the n=
ew
> pango and cairo. The wxt plot window again appears with gnuplot, but I =
still
> can't get focus inside the plot window. I do see Mac fonts, however. Th=
e
> cursor behavior has changed. When the plot appears, my arrow cursor cha=
nges
> to crosshairs similar to X11, which is a step forward. When I place the
> crosshairs over the plot window, the cursor changes to a spinning color
> pinwheel. If I click back to the finder, I get my arrow cursor back.
>
> I'm with Per. I'm surprised that the wxWidget folks don't have a way of
> getting focus without bundling. Should I post the question there?
>  =20

It doesn't seem to be a rare question, since the wxWidgets wiki is quite=20
lengthy about it. We should have looked at it earlier. Below are a=20
couple of interesting links:

http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/App_Not_Getting_Input_When_Run

"You _must_ create a bundle for Carbon and Cocoa apps on OS X.

If your binary is named "foo" then this works for testing purposes=20
(don't ship like this): mkdir -p foo.app/Contents/MacOS mv foo=20
foo.app/Contents/MacOS

When you get things working you can eventually tweak your build system=20
to make the bundle before the final link step and pass -o=20
foo.app/Contents/MacOS/foo to the linker rather than plain -o foo."

Some more details:
http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/Distributing_WxWidgets_Applicatio=
ns-Distributing_WxMac_Programs
http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_WxMac#Executables_.28.=
27Bundles.27.29
http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/WxMac_Issues#Building_a_MacOSX_ap=
plication_bundle

Could you try the mkdir suggestion above ? (Don't use my second patch,=20
it should be useless.) It seems quite straightforward.


I also asked on irc again, and was redirected to the following page:
http://wxforum.shadonet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3D9146

The alternative to "bundling" is the "resource fork", that can be done wi=
th:

/Developer/Tools/Rez -d __DARWIN__ -t APPL -d __WXMAC__ -i=20
<insert_app_name> -d WXUSINGDLL -o <insert_app_name> Carbon.r

where <insert_app_name> is the name of the executable (gnuplot here). On=20
http://wxforum.shadonet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3D6045&highlight=3Dmacos, it =
is=20
said that this is only for test purposes.


I hope you'll finally get it working !

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e