* Abbrian1 [12-08-13 11:04]:

I'm bran new to Gimp I have installed GIMP2.8.6 in my Mac running on OS10.6.8. I cannot open it, no matter how many times I click on the GIMP icon in my applications folder.

open a terminal window and at the prompt type gimp

see what messages appear on the terminal

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10.6.8 is Snow Leopard and your build may not be compatible with it. What error messages do you see in your system log?

You can also download my Mac build which will work on Snow Leopard or later. You can download it from www.partha.com

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Abbrian1 wrote:

I'm bran new to Gimp I have installed GIMP2.8.6 in my Mac running on OS10.6.8.
I cannot open it, no matter how many times I click on the GIMP icon in my applications folder.

How do I open the GIMP application? Thanks

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On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

open a terminal window and at the prompt type gimp

Under OS X? Well, you misspelled "open -a Gimp.app" ...

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On 8.12.2013 at 8:14 PM Partha Bagchi wrote in Gimp-user:

You can also download my Mac build which will work on Snow Leopard or later. You can download it from www.partha.com

Hi Partha,

I hereby confirm that your build is fine on OS X 10.6. How did you manage to build GIMP in a manner that it works for 10.6 _and later_?
As far as I know the OS X versions are often incompatible to each other what makes it hard to get a build for various OS X versions.

Perhaps that's a solution we can use in the upstream sources?

Kind regards,

Sven

Hi Sven,

It's a complicated process. Due to changes in how threads are handled between SL and later, if you build on Mountain Lion or Maverick the builds will not function on SL or earlier. So, to build Gimp such that it functions on SL and later, I installed Xcode under a separate folder and then point gcc to that folder and not use Maverick system folders.I also pass the CFLAG macosx-version-min=10.6

Does this help?

Btw, I test on Snow Leopard and Maverick before releasing. :)

Thanks, Partha

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:18 PM, scl wrote:

On 8.12.2013 at 8:14 PM Partha Bagchi wrote in Gimp-user:

You can also download my Mac build which will work on Snow Leopard or later. You can download it from www.partha.com

Hi Partha,

I hereby confirm that your build is fine on OS X 10.6. How did you manage to build GIMP in a manner that it works for 10.6 _and later_?
As far as I know the OS X versions are often incompatible to each other what makes it hard to get a build for various OS X versions.

Perhaps that's a solution we can use in the upstream sources?

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That won't help here.

Actually what Patrick said is doable but more intricate than his simple instructions.

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Maurizio Loreti wrote:

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Patrick Shanahan

wrote:

open a terminal window and at the prompt type gimp

Under OS X? Well, you misspelled "open -a Gimp.app" ...

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Am 08.12.2013 um 20:18 schrieb scl :

On 8.12.2013 at 8:14 PM Partha Bagchi wrote in Gimp-user:

You can also download my Mac build which will work on Snow Leopard or later. You can download it from www.partha.com

Hi Partha,

I hereby confirm that your build is fine on OS X 10.6. How did you manage to build GIMP in a manner that it works for 10.6 _and later_?

if you compile it on a SnowLeopad machine, it will run up to 10.9

The only reason, why I make separate builds on my site, is that my development system runs Mavericks. So I do a second build on an old (and slow) MacBook running SnowLeopard.

As far as I know the OS X versions are often incompatible to each other what makes it hard to get a build for various OS X versions.

AFAICS, there are no incompatibilities as long as you compile and install all needed libraries inside the application bundle.

Simone

Hi Simone,

Yes, there are incompatibilities if you build on Maverick, it will not run on a Snow Leopard system as far as I know. I confirmed this when I built on Mountain Lion and it promptly segfaulted on Snow Leopard.

Thanks, Partha

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Simone Karin Lehmann wrote:

Am 08.12.2013 um 20:18 schrieb scl :

On 8.12.2013 at 8:14 PM Partha Bagchi wrote in Gimp-user:

You can also download my Mac build which will work on Snow Leopard or later. You can download it from www.partha.com

Hi Partha,

I hereby confirm that your build is fine on OS X 10.6. How did you manage to build GIMP in a manner that it works for 10.6 _and later_?

if you compile it on a SnowLeopad machine, it will run up to 10.9

The only reason, why I make separate builds on my site, is that my development system runs Mavericks. So I do a second build on an old (and slow) MacBook running SnowLeopard.

As far as I know the OS X versions are often incompatible to each other what makes it hard to get a build for various OS X versions.

AFAICS, there are no incompatibilities as long as you compile and install all needed libraries inside the application bundle.

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Am 08.12.2013 um 22:37 schrieb Partha Bagchi :

Hi Sven,

It's a complicated process. Due to changes in how threads are handled between SL and later, if you build on Mountain Lion or Maverick the builds will not function on SL or earlier. So, to build Gimp such that it functions on SL and later, I installed Xcode under a separate folder and then point gcc to that folder and not use Maverick system folders.I also pass the CFLAG macosx-version-min=10.6

great, that looks promising. (I have to admit that I never thought of using macosx-version-min)

Isnt it enough to only use macosx-version-min?

What do you mean exactly by pointing gcc to another Xcode? My /usr/bin/gcc is the same as the one on Xcode/Contents/Develper/usr/bin. Im using Xcode 5 on Mavericks. Do you some other version or a custom installed gcc?

Regards Simone Karin

It means that I installed Xcode from Snow Leopard on my system. While gcc has not changed (version 4.2.1) I believe the support files are different.

So what I do is set /Developer/usr/bin as the first entry in my path. Also, I pass LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to point to /Developer/SDKs etc.

I do have 4.8.0 which I built and installed in ~/local/bin

thanks, Partha

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Simone Karin Lehmann wrote:

Am 08.12.2013 um 22:37 schrieb Partha Bagchi :

Hi Sven,

It's a complicated process. Due to changes in how threads are handled between SL and later, if you build on Mountain Lion or Maverick the

builds

will not function on SL or earlier. So, to build Gimp such that it functions on SL and later, I installed Xcode under a separate folder and then point gcc to that folder and not use Maverick system folders.I also pass the CFLAG macosx-version-min=10.6

great, that looks promising. (I have to admit that I never thought of using macosx-version-min)

Isnt it enough to only use macosx-version-min?

What do you mean exactly by pointing gcc to another Xcode? My /usr/bin/gcc is the same as the one
on Xcode/Contents/Develper/usr/bin. Im using Xcode 5 on Mavericks. Do you some other version or a custom installed gcc?

Regards Simone Karin

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On 8 December 2013 23:45, Partha Bagchi wrote:

It means that I installed Xcode from Snow Leopard on my system. While gcc has not changed (version 4.2.1) I believe the support files are different.

So what I do is set /Developer/usr/bin as the first entry in my path. Also, I pass LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to point to /Developer/SDKs etc.

I do have 4.8.0 which I built and installed in ~/local/bin

I'm pretty sure that you don't need a custom XCode install. The 10.6 SDK comes with XCode for OSX 10.9 (or you can install it from inside XCode). You do need to set all the right flags though. I beliieve these are all, but I don't have a Mac to verify now.

-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -isysroot/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk -DMACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6

Apart from that, I think the solution for regular and consistent builds that many can contribute to is to get the build scripts upstream, and set up continious integration. TravisCI is free for open source projects and can build for Mac OSX. http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/user/osx-ci-environment/

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On 9.12.2013 at 4:23 AM Jon Nordby wrote:

Apart from that, I think the solution for regular and consistent builds that many can contribute to is to get the build scripts upstream, and set up continious integration.

+1

I also considered integrating OSX builds into our Jenkins-CI in a later step. As yet I thought of using the JHBuild based solution in /build/osx (in the gimp-2-8 branch) and I think that's the proper destination if Partha or sb. else wants to push upstream. As build environment I consider either using an OS X VM on an OS X host or crossbuilding from Linux to OS X if that's possible.

Kind regards,

Sven

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:38 PM, scl wrote:

On 9.12.2013 at 4:23 AM Jon Nordby wrote:

Apart from that, I think the solution for regular and consistent builds that many can contribute to is to get the build scripts upstream, and set up continious integration.

+1

+1 here too!
I think this is exactly the kind of issues that could be fixed by working all together upstream into 1 single awesome release instead of having everyone making one's own personal build in one's corner, each with their ups and downs.

There seems to be definite knowledge that is spread at least 3 people already in this thread (Simone, Partha, and Jon). Instead it could be gathered and shared to all in our repository. That's just a repetition of the previous threads we had about this. But we would really appreciate to get propositions to improve the upstream release. Give us your scripts and your patches! :-D This would be awesome.
Thanks.

Jehan

I also considered integrating OSX builds into our Jenkins-CI in a later step. As yet I thought of using the JHBuild based solution in /build/osx (in the gimp-2-8 branch) and I think that's the proper destination if Partha or sb. else wants to push upstream. As build environment I consider either using an OS X VM on an OS X host or crossbuilding from Linux to OS X if that's possible.

Kind regards,

Sven

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Am 09.12.2013 um 00:50 schrieb Jon Nordby :

I'm pretty sure that you don't need a custom XCode install. The 10.6 SDK comes with XCode for OSX 10.9 (or you can install it from inside XCode). You do need to set all the right flags though. I beliieve these are all, but I don't have a Mac to verify now.

-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -isysroot/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk -DMACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6

... great. I'll give it a try.

BTW, Xcode 5 doesn't include the 10.6 SDK and you can't install it from inside Xcode, but of course, you could copy it over from some old Xcode version.

Simone Karin