Xfce compilation on macosx

[Blake Smith]

I wish there was a way to run a different window manager in an OS X
environment. Sometimes the OS X wm is just too much. 

-Blake

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:24:25AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 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
> 
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