Hi everyone,

i just thought i would report my sucess of building Gimp on mac OS X with native GTK+ port by Imendio
(http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx).

Screenshot: http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gimpxct0.jpg

Right now things are working rather well. There a few visual glitches and menus and spinners sometimes don't work - but overall it is usable. Not ready to be used by users, however. and almost impossible to package and distribute until the gtk mac team work on distribution.

Overall the process was not too hard, i however had to change a makefile at one point. The one located in /app/Makefile contains a line 'munix = -Wl,-rpath '-Wl,$$ORIGIN/../lib'' - this line is incompatible with mac OS X because it uses Apple's ld, not GNU's. I just made munix empty and everything built fine. Do you think makefiles can be adapted to be cross-platform or do you support only linux?

Finally, i thought it might be a good idea to set up a wiki page where i'd write the build steps i followed so that other people don't have to do as much research and trial-and-error.

Thanks!

PS: I might be interested about doing some code development on linux as well possibly - maybe after i've spent a few months studying the code ;) I'm not very quick at getting into such big projects

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Hi,

how do you create a wiki page? can 'regular' users do, or must some moderator do it? i tried following the 'creating a wiki page' info, but it always showed up as black text

thanks

From: Axel Wernicke
To: "M. Gagnon"
CC: GIMPDev
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp natively on mac OS X Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:11:55 +0100

Congratulations!

I'm a member of the GIMP documentation team and eager to see the gtk native project progressing! I'm working on OS X @ an MBP myself. So, how you put the description on the GIMP wiki[1]? There is already a "How to build on Windows"[2] page which might be happy to get a twin.

Greetings, lexA

[1] http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/FrontPage?action=show&redirect=StartSeite [2] http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp

Am 25.03.2007 um 00:52 schrieb M. Gagnon:

Hi everyone,

i just thought i would report my sucess of building Gimp on mac OS X with native GTK+ port by Imendio
(http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx).

Screenshot: http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gimpxct0.jpg

Right now things are working rather well. There a few visual glitches and menus and spinners sometimes don't work - but overall it is usable. Not ready to be used by users, however. and almost impossible to package and distribute until the gtk mac team work on distribution.

Overall the process was not too hard, i however had to change a makefile at
one point. The one located in /app/Makefile contains a line 'munix = -Wl,-rpath '-Wl,$$ORIGIN/../lib'' - this line is incompatible with mac OS X
because it uses Apple's ld, not GNU's. I just made munix empty and everything built fine. Do you think makefiles can be adapted to be cross-platform or do you support only linux?

Finally, i thought it might be a good idea to set up a wiki page where i'd
write the build steps i followed so that other people don't have to do as much research and trial-and-error.

Thanks!

PS: I might be interested about doing some code development on linux as well
possibly - maybe after i've spent a few months studying the code ;) I'm not
very quick at getting into such big projects

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Thanks,

i wrote a first set of instructions. It's rather long and painful, but hey it worked ^^

but just a quick question... i thought i'd try color management, but it was a bad idea because now it fails loading the profile and won't start anymore! how can i reset the color profiles used? i tried uninstalling and reinstalling it but it still tried to open the profiles

From: Axel Wernicke
To: "M. Gagnon"
CC: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp natively on mac OS X Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:40:27 +0200

Hi,

Am 25.03.2007 um 03:37 schrieb M. Gagnon:

Hi,

how do you create a wiki page? can 'regular' users do, or must some moderator do it? i tried following the 'creating a wiki page' info, but it
always showed up as black text

thanks

The MagicWords needed som " around to be recognised. I restored your text and created the new page at http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/ HowToCompileGimp/MacOSX .

Greetings lexA

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I do not have the very latest developer tools installed, so that may explain the difference. I have updated the wiki info accordignly, thanks for pointing out.

On 3/26/07, Michael Natterer wrote:

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 19:52 -0400, M. Gagnon wrote:

Hi everyone,

i just thought i would report my sucess of building Gimp on mac OS X

with

native GTK+ port by Imendio
(http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx).

Overall the process was not too hard, i however had to change a

makefile at

one point. The one located in /app/Makefile contains a line 'munix = -Wl,-rpath '-Wl,$$ORIGIN/../lib'' - this line is incompatible with mac

OS X

because it uses Apple's ld, not GNU's. I just made munix empty and everything built fine. Do you think makefiles can be adapted to be cross-platform or do you support only linux?

That's odd, since I have to change *nothing* in any of the source packages to get the entire toolchain plus gimp build on OS X.

I can't look into that right now but will do as soon as I have access to my apple machine again,

Perhaps the difference is due to a different version of one of the autofoo tools, or a different version of XCode.

Rockwalrus

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