Re: Prima + MCE::Hobo demonstration

Compiling Prima on Mac OS X.

These days, OS X doesn't ship with X11. Fortunately, XQuartz is available from https://www.xquartz.org. That provides the Mac with X11 support and ships with freetype2 and PNG libraries including header files. XQuartz installs under /opt/X11.

Below, one may need to run with configure --prefix=/opt/X11 when building the GIF and JPEG libraries. For unknown reasons, Prima does not check /usr/local on my system.

GIF: https://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/files/

tar xjf giflib-5.1.4.tar.bz2
cd giflib-5.1.4

./configure --prefix=/opt/X11

make
sudo make install
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JPEG: http://www.ijg.org/files/

tar xf jpegsrc.v9b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-9b

./configure --prefix=/opt/X11

make
sudo make install
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Prima: https://metacpan.org/pod/Prima

tar xf Prima-1.51.tar.gz
cd Prima-1.51

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig perl Makefile.PL X11BASE=/opt/X
+11 WITH_GTK2=0

make
sudo make install
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Unfortunately, the fonts aren't as nice as running a Tk app. It did find freetype2 when building Prima. For help, I sent the author an email about why fonts have a staircase look.

Regards, Mario

Update: The author confirm Prima selecting bitmap (core X11 fonts) over freetypes.

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Re^2: Prima + MCE::Hobo demonstration by marioroy (Prior) on May 03, 2017 at 15:07 UTC
Dmitry committed fixes into master to ensure freetype fonts are selected over bitmap (core X11 fonts). On the Mac, the Makefile.PL now checks for pkgconfig residing under /opt/X11/lib. Not having to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH nor specify the path for X11BASE is awesome. The following applies to master and should work for Prima 1.52 and later releases. `unzip Prima-master.zip cd Prima-master perl Makefile.PL WITH_GTK2=0 make sudo make install` [download] Thank you, Dmitry. Prima now looks great on the Mac.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Prima + MCE::Hobo demonstration by dk (Chaplain) on May 03, 2017 at 15:17 UTC
Hi Mario, On my Mac setup, you actually don't even need to say WITH_GTK2=0. /dk	[reply]
Re^4: Prima + MCE::Hobo demonstration by marioroy (Prior) on May 03, 2017 at 20:48 UTC
Hi dk, Some time ago, I tried Mono (C#) on the Mac. That ships with Gtk2 libraries and header files. For Prima to compile successfully, I'm having to specify WITH_GTK2=0. Otherwise, I get the following error: 'gdk/gdkx.h' file not found. perl Makefile.PL make ... cc -c -Iinclude -Iinclude/generic -I/opt/X11/include -I/opt/X11/include/freetype2 -I/opt/X11/include/cairo -I/opt/X11/include/pixman-1 -I/opt/X11/include/libpng16 -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/include/gtk-2.0 -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/lib/gtk-2.0/includ +e -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/include/atk-1.0 -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/include/gdk-pixbuf +-2.0 -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/include/pango-1.0 -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/include/glib-2.0 -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/lib/glib-2.0/inclu +de -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/include/libpng14 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -Os -DVERSION=\"1.51\" -DXS_VER +SION=\"1.51\" "-I/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2leve +l/CORE" unix/gtk.c -o unix/gtk.o unix/gtk.c:15:10: fatal error: 'gdk/gdkx.h' file not found #include <gdk/gdkx.h> ^ 1 error generated. make: * [unix/gtk.o] Error 1 [download] I'm curious and like to try building Gtk+ on the Mac. That means building PCRE, libffi, GLib, ATK, gdk-pixbuf, Cairo, Pango, and GTK+ 2. I'm not sure if this list covers all the dependencies, but is a start. Then will build Prima again with Gtk+. If successful, will post the steps taken. Regards, Mario Update:** Prima in trunk now builds successfully with the Gtk headers and libraries included in Mono. Thank you, Dmitry. Ensure Mono is in your PATH inside .bash_profile and restart the terminal application. Or simply add the PATH manually. `PATH=$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.1/bin` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]