Re: GUI

Have you tried Fink?

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Steffan A. Cline <steffan@hldns.com> wrote:
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> on 12/23/08 8:30 PM, Dominic Lachowicz at domlachowicz@gmail.com wrote:
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>>
>> Hi Steffan,
>>
>> You need to install glib (and probably a few other libraries like
>> libgsf, libxml2, zlib, libpng). glib is required. glib isn't a
>> graphical toolkit. it is used by gtk+, which is a graphical toolkit.
>> so maybe that's the source of confusion.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Dom
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Steffan A. Cline <steffan@hldns.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I had emailed Dominic in a reply to the helpful info he sent earlier but
>>> wasn't sure what the best path was to follow. I was trying to build abiword
>>> as a headless tool which failed but found that all platforms of MacOS X that
>>> I tried whether it be PPC or Intel the builds always fail at
>>>
>>> checking for GLIB... configure: error:
>>>
>>> Anyone seen this or successfully built this under MacOS X?
>>>
>
> Has anyone statically linked these before? I see I will have an uphill
> battle. I've tried cross-compiling on MacOS X before with no luck. I always
> have to build on an intel and again on a ppc machine then use lipo to make a
> universal binary to distribute the tool. This has been fine but I've never
> had to contend with so many dependencies.
>
> I saw somewhere that there were some downloadable dmg files for MacOS X but
> I can't recall where and I don't think those were up to date.
>
> Anymore suggestions?
>
> BTW, Dominic, thanks for all your help thus far!
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Steffan
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