[Gretl-devel] OS X build process

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> > make clean ; make
> 
> Ah, of course.
> 
> Then I got an error because I previously had only removed the 
> fink package libxml2 and not libxml2-shlibs. For libxml2-shlibs 
> again one has to do --recursive which clears out quite many 
> packages. I wonder whether the fink installation will be good 
> for anything else than building gretl afterwards ;-)

I think this should probably work: make sure you use the flag 
"--without-gnome" when configuring gretl, and make sure that
/sw/lib/pkgconfig comes after /usr/lib/pkgconfig and 
/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig in your PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  Then, with any 
luck, gretl will pick up libxml2 from OS X and not Fink.  That way 
one shouldn't have to trash all those Fink packages.

> Oh and it seems that this affects gtksourceview, too, so that 
> will be missing in the build I guess (whatever that means, 
> because in the end syntax coloring is there).

If gretl doesn't find an installed gtksourceview, it uses its own 
version.  This is preferable unless one is doing a build for 
a fully-fledged gnome system.  As with gnome, though, you should 
be able to stop gretl from using an installed gtksourceview by 
adding "--without-gtksourceview" to the configure flags.

> Gnuplot also gave an error again, as I had also forgotten to 
> remove aquaterm-shlibs (including -dev).

On aquaterm: I thought that "/sw/Library/..." path looked 
suspicous.  But if it's correct, it should probably be possible to 
use an aquaterm-enabled build of gnuplot in the gretl package.  
This would require that aquaterm.dylib (or whatever it's called) 
is copied from its Fink location to the lib directory under
Gretl.app/Contents/Resources as with the other Fink libs.

> Ok, building all over... success -- at least when starting from 
> the terminal via ./gretl. (of course with fink disabled)
> 
> Double-clicking also works!

Ah, nice.

> creating the dmg I stumbled over cp; one needs the coreutils 
> package and watch out a bit -- quoted from the fink database 
> page:
> "The commands are named with 'g' prefix like 'gls' or 'gcp'. If you want to
> use them as 'ls' or 'cp', add /sw/lib/coreutils/bin to your PATH or install
> the coreutils-default package."

OK, thanks for the info; that's a change relative to my Fink 
installation.  (Or possibly I installed coreutils-default and 
forgot about it; I'll see if I can check that.)

> Ok, I created the dmg alright (hopefully).
> 
> The resulting dmg should be available from:
> www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/profs/nautz/downloads/software/gretl.dmg
> 
> To anybody else reading this: this is highly experimental, use 
> this only for testing purposes! And it's not a 100% current cvs 
> version, either. What else? Intel only. Maybe 10.5 (Leopard) 
> only, but I'm sure Allin will test it on 10.4.

Thanks, I'll give it a try on 10.4 this evening.

Allin.