Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

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Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 17 November 2006 01:33 pm, Joe Koski wrote:
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>> on 11/17/06 1:48 PM, Per Persson at per...@ma... wrote:
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>>> I still maintain my opinions that=20
>>> 1) building an X11 based wxt  terminal should be straightforward
>>> 2) a "native" wxt terminal is going to take a lot of work.
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>> I think Per's assessment is correct. The problem is not with wxt, but
>> with the necessity for "bundling" wxWidget applications for native
>> use on the Mac.=20
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>
> You call it a necessity, where Per implies that it is simply a
> matter of choice between X11 and "native".  Which is it?
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A native one is for sure better since X11 is not installed by default on=20
MacOS. The *only* problem we seem to get is this "no-input" issue, which=20
is supposed to be related to bundling, as Joe mentioned.


> If it's just a matter of choice, it would be nice to provide
> a concise statement of what is needed to build an X11-based
> wxt terminal under OSX.  And of course since that is the only
> working option, it should be made the default.
>
> In this scenario, can the code in .../term/wxt.trm and=20
>  .../src/wxterminal/*  be used with no change from the=20
> state in 4.2-rc1?
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Building for X11 (i.e. wxGTK, as you're doing on Linux) should be=20
working right now on MacOS, without modifications, with the usual=20
'configure; make; make install' routine.
Building for wxMAC needs the patch that makes the code in=20
src/wxterminal/wxt_gui.* files recognize the __WXMAC__ preprocessor=20
variable in addition to __WXMSW__ and __WXGTK__. We also need to figure=20
out why the window is not getting input. I'd love to see it working, but=20
I don't have a Mac to test it...

Maybe Mojca can help, since she is now trying to build gnuplot on a Mac=20
too ?

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e