Re: [Visualpython-users] building failure from visual-5.2_release.tar.bz2 on Mac OS X10.6.4

[Steve S. <st...@sp...>]

Good! This means it should "work".

K, You might try building the fink port, or looking at Martin's fink  
package:

http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/visual-py26

If I remember how fink works correctly, most of the info for building  
goes in the 'info' file and the 'patch' file:

http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/visual-py26.info

http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/visual-py26.patch

The only real change/patch that I see there that would affect  
compiling deal with a linker flag (-bundle_loader vs. -undefined).  
Also there is a mention that the port is only compatible with  
python-2.6. Maybe you should give the fink port a try? At least you  
could build the fink port and see what else might be different? One  
problem is that there are a lot of dependencies and sometimes building  
visual is as much about getting the dependencies (version/build-flags)  
right as it is about the visual code itself.

(Also.. sorry Martin! I didn't realize there was a fink 5.x version.  
Good show!)

-steve

On Jul 3, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Steve Spicklemire wrote:
>> Hi K,
>> I'm pretty sure the gtk/glade etc are only needed for an X-Windows   
>> build. The Mac port uses the Carbon API to run on macos x.
>> It may be possible to build an X-Windows version (in fact that was   
>> originally how visual was ported to the mac, except using fink  
>> rather  than macports) but it hasn't been done in some time (I  
>> don't think at  all for Visual 5.X, as far as I know, but I may be  
>> wrong here..)
>
> You are wrong:
> Fink has version 5.32 (package "visual-py26"), which uses X11.
>
> -- 
> Martin
>