Re: [q-lang-users] Compiling Q on Mac OS X

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Tim Haynes wrote:
> Definitely maybe the ODBC interface, please :)

Yes, SQLite's advantage is that it's very easy to use, but if you want
to work with existing databases there's no way around ODBC.

>     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/q \
>       --with-{x,gmp,rl,pthread,curl,gdbm,magick,xml} 

I didn't mention gdbm since I think it's not used all that much anymore
(someone correct me if I'm wrong), but it's not a big dependency, so you
might as well include the gdbm interface in the basic package, along
with the xml interface. (The latter would bring in libxml2, libxslt and
libz, so it wouldn't be a huge dependency either. I guess that if you
use stuff from MacPorts, chances are that you already have these
libraries anyway, since they are used by a lot of applications.)

The magick module is nice for both graphics and web programming, but
here the story is a bit different because the ImageMagick port drags in
XFree86 (even if you don't need the X11 functionality), so you might
want to provide this as an option.

Anyway, these are just suggestions... It's good to have Q in MacPorts,
even just the basic package. Now when people ask for OS X packages, I
can simply refer them to your port, that's very nice. :)

Cheers,
Albert

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