Xfce compilation on macosx

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at corsac.net
Mon Dec 4 15:29:17 CET 2006


On dim, 2006-12-03 at 18:06 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> What linker are you using? 

Apple's one, I guess.

>  I'm just using Apple's stock gcc and the
> system's ld on MacOS X 10.4.  Assuming I pass --disable-visibility to
> configure, libxfce4util compiles fine for me.

Mh I didn't pass this one, maybe that was why.
> 
> It appears to work as well if I use gcc 4.1 and odld from DarwinPorts
> (guess they're called 'MacPorts' now).  I don't see GNU ld in
> DarwinPorts anywhere... binutils doesn't install it.
> 
> Also, I don't think the version of libiconv included with the OS will
> work properly, but I'm not sure where I read that (or even if I'm
> remembering correctly).  I'm using libiconv and libintl from
> DarwinPorts.  I imagine the fink equivalents would also work here (or
> compiling them by hand, but who wants to do that? ^_~).

I may try, but...

> 
> Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, libxfcegui4 won't compile without
> libX11, so gtk compiled with the gdk-quartz backend isn't going to
> work
> for Xfce. 

Mh yes, ok. I wanted to give a try, but didn't want to run Xfce under
X11 on osx, but run it using quartz backend. If it's not possible,
that's fine, I'll spare time :p

Thanks for yours, anyway :)
-- 
Yves-Alexis




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