[Visualpython-users] One more stab at OS X compatibility

[Dethe E. <de...@li...>]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to get beta5 to build and I'm stuck in ./configure.  I've  
even buckled and installed Fink, against my better judgement, just  
for this one project.  I've tried to install all the pre-requisites  
for VPython but I'm still getting the following error:

checking for GTK... configure: error: gtkglextmm 1.2, pangoft2,  
glibmm-2.4, and pangomm-1.4 libglademm-2.4 are required on Unix-like  
systems

Now, I have gtk+, gtk+-shlibs, gtk+2, gtk+2-dev, gtk+2-shlibs, gtk- 
glarea, gtkglarea2, gtkglext1, gtkglext1-shlibs, gtkmm2, gtkmm2-dev,  
gtkmm2-shlibs, pango1, pango1-dev, pango1-shlibs, pango1-xft2, pango1- 
xft2-dev, pango1-xft2-shlibs, etc.

In other words, I've installed every fink library I can find which  
might be helpful in getting VPython to build, but no luck so far.   
Apparently VPython wasn't dependent enough on GTK and had to move  
further towards platform-dependence.  Please correct me if I'm wrong,  
but at this point my guess is that VPython no longer supports  
building on OS X at all.

--Dethe

"Any idea that couldn't stand a few decades of neglect is not worth  
anything." --Gabriel Garcia Marquez