success in building a native version of gnucash was: Re: how to build gimp +quartz?

[Olaf Foellinger]

Hi,

thanks for your help.

* David Evans <devans at orindasoftware.com> [19.10.08 22:06]wrote:

> Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > today I've tried to build 
> >
> > $ sudo port install gimp-app +quartz
> >
> > on a relative freshly installed macports. Before I've installed the x11
> > version of gnucash.
> >
> > Macports has installed the x11 version of gimp to. What do I have to do
> > to install the quartz version? My next target would be the quartz
> > version of gnucash which should be possible according to 
> >
> > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz 
> >
> > Gruß Olaf
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> >
> >   
> I'm not sure that anyone has succeeded doing this with version 2.6.1
> yet.  Even the
> official GIMP On MacOSX prebuilt version is X11.

O.k. it seems to be difficult.
 
> The general idea is that you have to rebuild gtk2 and its dependencies
> with +quartz or +no_x11 as is the case
> by looking at each port and then rebuild gimp using these as the
> dependencies.

Yes, thanks.
> 
> This will break a lot of things that expect x11 support in other apps so
> you probably would
> want to do this using a separate MacPorts installation just for this
> purpose.

Done.

> Another approach is to build separate copies of the underlying
> dependencies using Imendio's
> system for building GTK in native mode.  A description of how to go
> about this can be found
> on the gimp.org wiki (Wilber's Wiki)  here
> 
> http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp/MacOSX
> 
> Hope this helps and if you have any success or run into specific
> problems please let us know.

I've started with GnuCash and have now a native version up and running.
Of course it's not polished and there are a lot of messages in the
console but it seems to work fine. I will report the details later.

Gruß Olaf