[cairo] Another set of OSX Build Instructions

Travis Griggs tgriggs at cincom.com
Mon Oct 19 21:29:49 PDT 2009


On Oct 19, 2009, at 8:12 PM, mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:38:07 -0700
> Travis Griggs <tgriggs at cincom.com> wrote:
>> I've been playing with refactoring build instructions found on the
>> wiki out of the downloads page, and on to a separate Building page,
>> with recipes for doing different builds.
>
> Good work today.
>
>> I've just finished http://cairographics.org/end_to_end_build_for_mac_os_x/
>> and would love to hear any feedback before writing up the end-to-end
>> version I have for win32.
>
> Unintentionally, when I installed Mono SDK on Mac OS X 10.4,
> it replaced pkg-config by new one. I thank you for writing
> that "Apple-genuine" pkg-config bundled to Xcode was legacy :-).
> Also your note that "png" issue would be useful.
>
> About the syntax of "export" command, I think,
>
> export LDFLAGS=-arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/ 
> MacOSX10.4u.sdk
>
> is not safe, quoting might be recommended, like this.
>
> export LDFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/ 
> MacOSX10.4u.sdk"

Yes, indeed. I copied these lines from a Herl script where the syntax  
is a little different. Thank you.
>
> There is a typo "x85_64" which should be "x86_64".

Fixed too.
>
> And, giving the list of backends detected/enabled by
> default would be helpful.


Noted at the top, as well in an explanation farther down about why -- 
disable-xlib is turned on.

Thanks!

--
Travis Griggs
Objologist
"Some people are like slinkies, not really good for much, but they can  
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