[cairo] problem building cairo 1.10.0 for x86_64 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

[Kevin Layer]

Andrea Canciani <ranma42 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Kevin Layer <layer at franz.com> wrote:
>> > Alexander Shulgin <alex.shulgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 23:31, Kevin Layer <layer at franz.com> wrote:
>> >>> > Andrea Canciani <ranma42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Please try building the archive available here:
>> >>> >>> http://www.cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.10.0.tar.gz
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> It should be as simple as decompressing it and running:
>> >>> >>> ./configure
>> >>> >>> make
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> (assuming that you already added macports to the path).
>> >>> >>> If both these commands run successfully, the problem is likely
>> >>> >>> in the macports packaging.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > They did.  However, that only made the i386 version.  How do I
>> >>> > configure for x86_64?  (I looked at configure and it wasn't obvious)
>> >>>
>> >>> I guess it's ./configure --build=x86_64 or something like that.
>> >
>> > OK, did that.  The make that followed worked, but didn't produce any
>> > dylib's.
>> >
>> > $ find . -name '*.dylib'
>> > $ find . -name 'libcairo.*'
>> > ./src/.libs/libcairo.a
>> > ./src/.libs/libcairo.la
>> > ./src/.libs/libcairo.lai
>> > ./src/libcairo.la
>> > $ find . -name 'libcairo.*' | xargs file
>> > ./src/.libs/libcairo.a:   current ar archive random library
>> > ./src/.libs/libcairo.la:  ASCII English text, with very long lines
>> > ./src/.libs/libcairo.lai: ASCII English text, with very long lines
>> > ./src/libcairo.la:        ASCII English text, with very long lines
>> > $
>> >
>> > Not sure where to go from here.  Any ideas?
>> 
>> You might want to try something like
>> 
>> export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
>> export LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk"
>> export CFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk"
>> ./configure

I get 

checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0

in the configure output when I do the above commands.

And, btw, I'm using 10.5.8 to build, and have been from the start.

>> In http://cairographics.org/end_to_end_build_for_mac_os_x/ Travis reports that
>> the 10.4 sdk cannot be used to build for 64 bits targets. Maybe the dev
>> environment you're using defaults to using the 10.4 sdk. If the previous
>> configuration works, you maight want to try:

>> export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
>> export LDFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch i386 -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64
>> -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk"
>> export CFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch i386 -arch ppc64 -arch x86_64 -isysroot
>> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk"
>> 
>> (you can leave the ppc archs out if you don't want them)
>> If this works, you should get a universal dylib.
>> If this doesn't, but the previous config worked, you should still be able to
>> lipo the i386 and the x86_64 dylibs together.
>> If the previous config doesn't work... you should have some new error
>> message that might provide further insight.
>> 
>> Please report if any of these methods work for you as it will probably be
>> useful for other users.
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> Andrea
>> 
>> PS: http://cairographics.org/end_to_end_build_for_mac_os_x/ is probably
>> a good reference to keep around when trying to build cairo. I expect you
>> to already have all the dependencies, so you can skip most of it, but it
>> points out important and non-obvious problems, like the missing 64bits
>> support in the 10.4 sdk