[seq24-users] [PATCH] seq24 / gtkmm-2.8 (2.4)

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Hi,

I just installed a 64-bit distro which had no binary package
for gtkmm-2.2 (slamd64 with gnome libs from freerock gnome).

So when I tried to compile seq24 it of course complained about
its gtkmm calls.

Perhaps foolishly ( Ok, very stupidly..! :-) I decided to try and
make seq24 compile against the version of gtkmm that came
with freerock's 64-bit gnome packages. That version calls
itself gtkmm-2.8 but installs as gtkmm-2.4 (!) I presume it
knows what it is doing and there is some clever reason for
this. I thought this would be easier than compiling my own
gtkmm-2.2 from source - which is probably not true!

So some amount of repetitive edits later, I now have a version that
compiles against the latest stable gtkmm (adding -I/usr/include/cairo
to the CPPFLAGS when running ./configure). It appears to work
correctly to the extent I was able to send midi to ams. I can't
say I've tested it with any thoroughness! In particular, I haven't
methodically tested affected dialog box calls, which had to be
supplied with some new boolean values (defaults, I guess).
but it looks ok..

I know there is no planned official support for gtkmm > 2.2,
and I'm not offering to maintain a gtkmm-2.4 version - I don't
have the skills, and most of my changes were sheer
guesswork/googling because I'm not a gtk programmer at all,
so please note: this patch comes with no support at all!

Anyway, despite that, I thought maybe it might be
useful to someone, or someone might be curious to inspect
it, so I decided to send it here to the list..

To apply it, assuming you have /usr/local/src/seq24-0.7.0,
(and assuming the patch makes it to the list as an attachment! :)
save and unzip the patch,

then

  cd /usr/local/src/seq24-0.7.0

and

 patch -p1 < /wherever/you/put/seq24-gtkmm-2.4-patch

then to build do

 CPPFLAGS=3D-I/usr/include/cairo ./configure <configure options>

(I think you should have cairo.h in /usr/include/cairo or somewhere
else  if you're using gtkmm-2.8, if it's somewhere else then use that
location)

If it doesn't work: sorry! it worked on my system!

Again, just to re-iterate, this patch is purely a FYI affair, and
implies no support whatsoever - use it at your own discretion
and risk ;-)

- Pete.