[Usbpicprog-technical] Build-instructions (and app) for Mac OS X 10.4+ universal (32-bit Intel + PPC)

[Gustav J. <gu...@ne...>]

Hi!

Since I'm new to this mailing-list, I apologize in advance if I break
some rules... If I do, just tell me and I won't do it again! :)

I've been working on creating a universal build for OS X of the
usbpicprog.app, and I think I've got it now. Attached are two files,
one disk image containing a freshly built usbpicprog.app that *should*
work on both Intel and PPC Macs, from 10.4 and up. I've tested it on
an Intel 10.6 and an PPC 10.5, and they both work just fine. I do not
however have a usb-programmer yet, so I have not tested the
programming functionality. If you can help out by testing, please do
so and tell me about any problems.

If there is an interest in it, I can setup a cron-job and built
"nigthly" builds of usbpicprog for OS X and upload the disk images to
wherever is suitable.

The second file is a couple of scripts and a README file with
information on how you can build this yourself. I used a lot of the
info by Lukas Zeller, and only had to do a bit of tweaking to get it
to work.

The main problem that Lukas Zeller saw was the libiconv linking, which
was almost correct. The problem is not with the MacPorts libiconv, but
rather that Apple ships with a number of libiconv versions, some of
which takes precedence over the MacPorts version. The solution is to
force wxWidgets to use the MacPorts version by using a configure flag.
For more information, see the install_wxWidgets.sh script.

There is however another issue that can mess stuff up. libtool! Again,
Apple ships there own "special" version of libtool/libtoolize, which
is NOT compatible with the GNU version. Unfortunately, stuff breaks in
OS X if you overwrite Apple's version, and thus MacPorts have solved
this by renaming libtool to glibtool and glibtoolize. To get
everything to compile correctly, I had to make a symlink from
/opt/local/bin/glibtool to /opt/local/bin/libtool (and glibtoolize of
course). This makes everything build fine, but is a bit of a hack
since I have to remove this symlinks after the build is complete or OS
X will mess stuff up when installing other programs. The best way
would be to make the configure/autogen.sh scripts to realize that
they're building on a Mac and change from libtool to glibtool...

I think that was all. Hope it works for everyone else as well!

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