Re: [Plib-users] Build error

[John M. <joh...@co...>]

Hey, thanks, I'll give it a go.

John

On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 02:11  PM, mat the prophet wrote:

> John-
>
> Let me be the first to welcome to the painful world of plib and OSX.  
> The good news is that I've done all the leg work to get this stuff to 
> work usefully with ProjectBuilder.  Here are the specifics:
>
> 1.) Sounds like you  need to replace any files with a .m4 extension 
> with the mac versions in /usr/share/autoconf/.  Im pretty sure this is 
> how you get the build script to operate correctly.
>
> 2.) once the stuff is built you'll have a second problem which is that 
> gcc will not enjoy using the plib headers from /usr/include/plib/.  
> For some crazy reason, gcc wont treat them as c++ files and will try 
> to compile them as C which will miserably fail.  I have two solutions 
> for this:
>
> 	A.) add every plib header to your ProjectBuilder target (make sure 
> they are located outside of /usr/include/ ) and compile away!
> 	B.) Compile a framework target for those headers and toss it into 
> /System/Library/Frameworks and add it to the target.
>
> Ive compiled a framework for this stuff that handles all the header 
> stuff but your products wont be cross platform <shrug>.  I can make 
> this public by early next week, or you can teach yourself how to make 
> frameworks (which is pretty cool actually).
>
> 3.) For your targets, after you've dealt with the header fiasco, 
> you'll need to add .a libs to the target also.  Just go to "Add 
> Frameworks...", type in /usr/include/plib/ as the path, and select the 
> libs.
>
> Got all that?  Its not as bad as it may sound, do it once and you'll 
> be a pro.  Email me with any questions you might have, Im happy to 
> help.
>
> mat.
>
>
>
> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 01:54 PM, John MacMullin wrote:
>
>>
>> Any suggestions to get the configure to run to completion?  Again, 
>> please understand that I am a complete novice with these things.  
>> Your patience is greatly appreciated.
>>
>
>
>
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