MacOS X building instructions

**Simon Young** · 14 May 2006, 07:57 AM

Dear All,

Very excited, but unable to build for OSX here:

WX widgets built as per instructions ... but then:

Macintosh:~ simonyoung$ ranlib /Users/simonyoung/XaraLX/libs/darwin/libCDraw.a
ranlib: for architecture i386 object: /Users/simonyoung/XaraLX/libs/darwin/libCDraw.a(libCDrawStatic.a-i386-master.o) malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD command 3 can't byte swap it)

... any help gratefully received.

Kind regards,

Simon

**BPFowler** · 15 May 2006, 10:33 AM

Could you report your Mac OS version and XCode version.

At the moment, to complete the build using standard methods entails quite extreme restrictions on the versions that work.

There was a similar message last month, videlicet:
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/maillists/.../msg00150.html

Could I trouble you to review the Build Instructions page at
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/developers...tructions.html

I am not saying that that page will solve the problem for you (though it might), but it would be helpful to hear of any imperfections and or omissions within it, that relate to your efforts.

When you do get Mac Xara LX running, it would be appreciated if you could check
Bug 935 "APPLICATION CLOSE".

Ben

**Simon Young** · 16 May 2006, 06:29 AM

Dear Ben,

Thank you for your help; version of Xcode upgraded to 2.2.1 solved the ranlib problem.

Proceeding to XaraLX unfortuately generates errors at the autoreconf command. Please see below:

System: Mac OS X 10.4.6 18.GHz PowerPC G5
Xcode: 2.2.1

packages:
Macintosh:~/XaraLX simonyoung$ sudo fink list pkgconfig automake autoconf libpng libjpeg
Information about 2065 packages read in 1 seconds.
autoconf 2.13-5 System for generating configure scripts, ...
(i) autoconf2.5 2.59-7 System for generating configure scripts
autoconf2.54 2.54-4 System for generating configure scripts
automake1.4 1.4-5 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
automake1.5 1.5-6 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
automake1.6 1.6.3-6 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
automake1.7 1.7.6-6 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
automake1.8 1.8.5-3 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
(i) automake1.9 1.9.4-2 Tool for generating GNU Standards-complia...
p automaken [virtual package]
i libjpeg 6b-16 JPEG image format handling library
i libjpeg-bin 6b-16 Executables for libjpeg package
i libjpeg-shlibs 6b-16 Shared libraries for libjpeg package
libpng-shlibs 1.0.12-7 PNG image format handling library (old ve...
i libpng3 1:1.2.8-1 PNG image format handling library
i libpng3-shlibs 1:1.2.8-1 Shared libraries for libpng3 package
i pkgconfig 0.15.0-2 Manager for library compile/link flags

executing autoreconf:

Macintosh:~/XaraLX simonyoung$ pwd
/Users/simonyoung/XaraLX
Macintosh:~/XaraLX simonyoung$ autoreconf -f -i -s
/sw/share/aclocal/pkg.m4:5: warning: underquoted definition of PKG_CHECK_MODULES
run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/a...ending-aclocal
/sw/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK
aclocal:configure.in:9: warning: macro `AM_BINRELOC' not found in library
/sw/share/aclocal/pkg.m4:5: warning: underquoted definition of PKG_CHECK_MODULES
run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/a...ending-aclocal
/sw/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK
aclocal:configure.in:9: warning: macro `AM_BINRELOC' not found in library
Macintosh:~/XaraLX simonyoung$

Help gratefully received.

Kind regards,

Simon

**BPFowler** · 16 May 2006, 07:59 AM

You can ignore the warnings, I think that they are outside of our control and indicate that the m4 macros used by the folks who who built GTK et cetera were using an older version of m4 or autotools.

The AM_BINRELOC probably means that there is a package missing on from your setup, which we need but have not specified as being needed. I'll look into it.

Ben

**BPFowler** · 16 May 2006, 08:34 AM

Do you have a file called binreloc.m4 in your XaraLX directory?

**BPFowler** · 16 May 2006, 01:10 PM

For the avoidance of doubt, and again, I am not suggesting this is a part of getting the solution to this problem (though it might be), could you state which version of the GNU gettest tools you have, and if you wish, whether there have been any problems running autopoint.

Ben

**Simon Young** · 17 May 2006, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by BPFowler

You can ignore the warnings, I think that they are outside of our control and indicate that the m4 macros used by the folks who who built GTK et cetera were using an older version of m4 or autotools.

The AM_BINRELOC probably means that there is a package missing on from your setup, which we need but have not specified as being needed. I'll look into it.

Ben

OK, try 1; no joy - then make clean, etc a good start. Then compilation halts with:

[snip a lot]In file included from pngfiltr.h:104, from pngfiltr.cpp:106:
outptpng.h:109:17: error: png.h: No such file or directory
outptpng.h:166: error: 'png_structp' does not name a type
outptpng.h:167: error: 'png_infop' does not name a type
pngutil.h:151: error: 'png_colorp' has not been declared
make[2]: *** [pngfiltr.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Macintosh:~/XaraLX simonyoung$

**Simon Young** · 17 May 2006, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by BPFowler

Do you have a file called binreloc.m4 in your XaraLX directory?

Yes

**Simon Young** · 17 May 2006, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by BPFowler

For the avoidance of doubt, and again, I am not suggesting this is a part of getting the solution to this problem (though it might be), could you state which version of the GNU gettest tools you have, and if you wish, whether there have been any problems running autopoint.

Ben

Ben, I'm not sure if you mean gettext or gettest. Of the latter I can find no evidence so I'm going to assume the former (please accept my appologies in advance of being a silly newbie) ...

flagged status name installed version binary category summary
NO current gettext 0.10.40-19 0.10.40-19 0.10.40-19 base Message localization support
NO current gettext-bin 0.10.40-19 0.10.40-19 0.10.40-19 base Executables for gettext package
NO current gettext-dev 0.10.40-19 0.10.40-19 0.10.40-19 base Developer files for gettext package
NO current gettext-tools 0.10.40-19 0.10.40-19 0.10.40-19 base Developer executables for gettext package

I'm afraid that being a newbie I will not have encountered autopoint problems; is there something you would like me to run to test?

Kind regards,

Simon

**BPFowler** · 18 May 2006, 07:14 AM

This is the same problem that Pekele had, videlicet,
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showpost...9&postcount=16

This has been discussed on the mailing list: there are several ways of getting the png headers for your compilation, but unfortunately all of them have some disadvantages or will cause problems down the line.

Apple actually provide the libraries as part of the Core Foundation, and if I knew where the corresponding headers were, we could use those.

I suspect that Xara LX will need to provide its own png library (just as it provides its own wxWidgets library), and whilst this means a little more work at this stage, you could certainly do this now. (The instructions will probably be amended to contain this advice).

Otherwise, you could add the fink include directory as above, which is the quickest way past this obstacle (and is what I do still)!

Ben