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Building FOX on OS X with Xft support
by Lyle Johnson-4
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All,
I've just been through the exercise of figuring out how to build FOX with Xft support on OS X (Snow Leopard) and so I wanted to briefly report on the magical incantation required to pull it off. If I am late to the party and everyone else has already figured it out, apologies in advance for the wasted bandwidth. ;) On Linux, and maybe some other operating systems, you can just pass the "--with-xft" switch to the configure script and it will turn on the required compiler and linker flags for Xft support. The problem on OS X is that while libXft and friends are part of the operating system, the configure script that's included with both fox-1.6.36 and fox-1.7.20 assumes that if you have Xft installed, that you'll also have the pkg-config tool installed. This is not the case on OS X, so we have to work around it by passing in the required compiler and linker flags ourselves: env CFLAGS="-I/usr/X11/include -I/usr/X11/include/freetype2 - DHAVE_XFT_H" \ CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/X11/include -I/usr/X11/include/freetype2 - DHAVE_XFT_H=1" \ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11/lib -lXft -lfontconfig -lfreetype" \ ./configure --with-x --with-opengl --enable-cups Note that we don't pass the "--with-xft" switch to configure, but instead plug the needed flags into CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS. Hope this helps, Lyle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Foxgui-users mailing list Foxgui-users@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/foxgui-users |
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Re: Building FOX on OS X with Xft support
by Anders F Björklund
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Lyle Johnson wrote:
> On Linux, and maybe some other operating systems, you can just pass > the "--with-xft" switch to the configure script and it will turn on > the required compiler and linker flags for Xft support. The problem on > OS X is that while libXft and friends are part of the operating > system, the configure script that's included with both fox-1.6.36 and > fox-1.7.20 assumes that if you have Xft installed, that you'll also > have the pkg-config tool installed. This is not the case on OS X, so > we have to work around it by passing in the required compiler and > linker flags ourselves: At least on earlier OS versions, you could (alternatively) just install pkg-config and it would find /usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc and friends. But like you mention it's also possible to copy/paste the needed flags from the .pc files in this case, they're not too many to copy/paste... --anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Foxgui-users mailing list Foxgui-users@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/foxgui-users |
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Re: Building FOX on OS X with Xft support
by Lyle Johnson-4
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On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: > Lyle Johnson wrote: > >> On Linux, and maybe some other operating systems, you can just pass >> the "--with-xft" switch to the configure script and it will turn on >> the required compiler and linker flags for Xft support. The problem >> on >> OS X is that while libXft and friends are part of the operating >> system, the configure script that's included with both fox-1.6.36 and >> fox-1.7.20 assumes that if you have Xft installed, that you'll also >> have the pkg-config tool installed. This is not the case on OS X, so >> we have to work around it by passing in the required compiler and >> linker flags ourselves: > > At least on earlier OS versions, you could (alternatively) just > install > pkg-config and it would find /usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc and > friends. Yes, that ought to work too. It is curious to me that Apple decided to include the pkg-config files but not the pkg-config tools itself. I wonder what the thinking was there; maybe it was just an oversight? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Foxgui-users mailing list Foxgui-users@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/foxgui-users |
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Re: Building FOX on OS X with Xft support
by Anders F Björklund
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Lyle Johnson wrote:
>> At least on earlier OS versions, you could (alternatively) just >> install >> pkg-config and it would find /usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc and >> friends. > > Yes, that ought to work too. It is curious to me that Apple decided to > include the pkg-config files but not the pkg-config tools itself. I > wonder what the thinking was there; maybe it was just an oversight? It could be a license thing ? Anyway, it should be doable enough to get pkg-config and install it with --prefix=/opt/pkgconfig or something to not have it in the way. http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/ --anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Foxgui-users mailing list Foxgui-users@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/foxgui-users |
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Re: Building FOX on OS X with Xft support
by Anders F Björklund
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> I haven't tried applying this patch to fox-1.6.36, but just
> "eyeballing" it, it looks like the right thing. I agree that it would > be really nice if this could be added. Well, minus all the hardcoded /usr/X11R6 paths and other such hacks. Does that even work on Snow Leopard ? (It was a symlink on Leopard...) But something similar, that would cope with pkg-config being missing ? --anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Foxgui-users mailing list Foxgui-users@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/foxgui-users |
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Re: Building FOX on OS X with Xft support
by Sander Jansen
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Lyle Johnson <lyle@...> wrote:
> > On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: > >> Lyle Johnson wrote: >> >>> On Linux, and maybe some other operating systems, you can just pass >>> the "--with-xft" switch to the configure script and it will turn on >>> the required compiler and linker flags for Xft support. The problem >>> on >>> OS X is that while libXft and friends are part of the operating >>> system, the configure script that's included with both fox-1.6.36 and >>> fox-1.7.20 assumes that if you have Xft installed, that you'll also >>> have the pkg-config tool installed. This is not the case on OS X, so >>> we have to work around it by passing in the required compiler and >>> linker flags ourselves: >> >> At least on earlier OS versions, you could (alternatively) just >> install >> pkg-config and it would find /usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/xft.pc and >> friends. > > Yes, that ought to work too. It is curious to me that Apple decided to > include the pkg-config files but not the pkg-config tools itself. I > wonder what the thinking was there; maybe it was just an oversight? You don't need pkg-config to install package specific pkg-config files. I'm sure they didn't even notice these files were installed as part of each package... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Foxgui-users mailing list > Foxgui-users@... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/foxgui-users > -- "And any fool knows a dog needs a home A shelter from pigs on the wing" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Foxgui-users mailing list Foxgui-users@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/foxgui-users |
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