Xfce compilation on macosx

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer, 2006-11-15 at 22:58 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I'm trying to build Xfce on Mac OSx tiger (yeah, I know... :) ). I've
> > successfully built gtk, and it works. I've built xarchiver to see if it
> > was ok, and here it is:
> > 
> > http://heracles.corsac.net/~corsac/xfce/xarchiver-osx.png
> 
> I notice from the terminal you have open that there are references to
> 'NSCFArray', etc., so presumably you built gtk with the gdk-quartz
> backend rather than the gdk-x11 backend.  You're not likely to get much
> farther in your Xfce build attempts, as Xfce includes a bunch of x11
> code.  In fact, libxfcegui4 isn't going to compile for you, which means
> pretty much nothing else will be buildable, either.

Yeah, the thing was to be able to run things in top of quartz, and
without running X. I'm really not sure I'll be able to go far in this,
but eh, worth the try :)


> ... however, that's kinda an odd error to get.  Those functions are all
> included in libxfce4util, so I'm not sure why they'd be undefined.
> Perhaps they aren't getting exported for some reason, but that doesn't
> explain why a bunch of other functions that are declared the same way
> *are* getting exported.  libxfce4util also has no GUI parts, and so
> should build fine regardless of the GUI sitting on top of it.
> 
> Anyway, if I get bored enough I might reboot to OS X and play with it,
> but don't hold your breath ^_~.

Yeah I understand very well. It'm now back on my Linux where everything
works flawlessly, but as I can't stand osx look&feel, it was a nice trip
to do :)
-- 
Yves-Alexis