[Geany] Building On Mac OS X

Vijay Ramesh vijay.krishna.ramesh at xxxxx
Wed Aug 27 23:28:44 UTC 2008


fyi, I was able to install Geany with darwin ports -
http://geany.darwinports.com/

/ Vijay K Ramesh

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Fox Touche <alopecoid at gmail.com> wrote:

> I figured it out... I needed to run the following before running
> ./configure and make:
> jhbuild shell
>
> This setup the environment for me to build successfully.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Fox Touche <alopecoid at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am desperately attempting to build Geany (0.14) on OS X (10.5.4). I
> > feel that I am close to success, but being relatively new to all of
> > this (building apps on Unix-like machines, and new-ish to Unix all
> > together), I am finding myself at a dead end.
> >
> > I successfully built GTK2, by following the directions found here:
> > http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/build-instructions
> >
> > After the build was successful, it didn't really say much, but I found
> > that build generated the dir "/Users/<username>/gtk/inst" that has the
> > following dirs:
> > System
> > bin
> > etc
> > include
> > info
> > lib
> > man
> > share
> >
> > This looks to me, like a valid GTK2 dir structure. However, when I
> > attempt to run ./configure on Geany, I get the following:
> >
> > checking for GTK... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0
> >>= 2.6.0) were not met:
> > No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
> > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> > installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GTK_CFLAGS
> > and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> > See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> >
> > I tried setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the path I mentioned above (and
> > several other of its subdirs), but I still get the same message.
> >
> > I'm not sure where to go from here, but again, I feel that I am close
> > to success.
> > Do you have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
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