Compiling GTK+ on Mac OS X can be a time consuming task, specially if you don't want to use tools like Fink or MacPorts. Obviously I don't keep backup of my libs so after my last HDD crash (less than a year brand new MacBook, thanks to MacSaber) I had to redo all the GTK saga again. This time I am going to record the whole process to the history, so I can drastically reduce the efforts on future attempts.
Yes, GTK has a million dependencies that have a million dependencies themselves leaving us with a gazillion libraries to take care of. While I was going forward and back across the dependencies I wrote down what depends on what. That's what I came up with:
- gtk
- glib
- pkg_config
- gettext
- expat
- libpng
- atk
- pango
- cairo
- pixman
- freetype
- fontconfig
- libtiff
- libjpeg
For the architecture I decided to go with i686 after gettext complained about x86_64. Yes, I had to go back and re-compile everything that was already done until that step.
I like to install everything on /usr/local so I know where my stuff is laying around. Also, I tried to find the latest version of each package in the time this blog entry was written. Some stuff is hosted on more than one "official" place and not always it is updated everywhere. So I could fail on finding the state of the art for everything here but I am probably close to that.
I am not going to report any error message or to detail any problem that I faced during the process. Instead I will go direct to the point.
GLIB
we start with pkg_config:wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.23.tar.gzthen we move to gettext, that requires expat:
tar -zxf pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
cd pkg-config-0.23
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686"
make
sudo make install
wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gzbefore going to gettext we need to hack emacs as found here:
tar -zxf expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
cd expat-2.0.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686"
make
sudo make install
sudo mv /usr/bin/emacs-i386 /usr/bin/emacs-i386.backupfinally gettext:
sudo /usr/libexec/dumpemacs -d
wget ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.17.tar.gzand the last item on glib, libpng:
tar -zxf gettext-0.17.tar.gz
cd gettext-0.17
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686"
make
sudo make install
wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.25.tar.bz2now glib itself, that is by far more problematic than the libs above:
tar -jxf libpng-1.2.25.tar.bz2
cd libpng-1.2.25
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686"
make
sudo make install
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.14/glib-2.14.6.tar.bz2at this point we have to patch glib/gutils.h as seen here:
tar -jxf glib-2.14.6.tar.bz2
cd glib-2.14.6
--- gutils.h 2008-02-07 03:24:59.000000000 -0200also the C compiler need some special flags. the SSE instructions have to be enabled with -msse2 which is mandatory here. I copied the other flags from the portfile at MacPorts. Finally:
+++ /usr/src/glib-2.14.6/glib/gutils.h 2008-03-06 16:43:34.000000000 -0300
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@
#ifdef G_IMPLEMENT_INLINES
# define G_INLINE_FUNC
# undef G_CAN_INLINE
+#elif defined (__APPLE__)
+# define G_INLINE_FUNC static inline
#elif defined (__GNUC__)
# if __GNUC_PREREQ (4,2) && defined (__STDC_VERSION__) \
&& __STDC_VERSION__ >= 199901L
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-static CFLAGS="-arch i686 -msse2 -funroll-loops -fstrict-aliasing -finline-functions" LDFLAGS="-bind_at_load"
make
sudo make install
GTK
the next is atk:wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/atk/1.21/atk-1.21.92.tar.bz2and following cairo deps, pixman:
tar -jxf atk-1.21.92.tar.bz2
cd atk-1.21.92
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686"
make
sudo make install
wget http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.9.6.tar.gzfreetype:
tar -zxf pixman-0.9.6.tar.gz
cd pixman-0.9.6
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686"
make
sudo make install
wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2fontconfig:
tar -jxf freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2
cd freetype-2.3.5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686 -msse2"
make
sudo make install
wget http://fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.4.92.tar.gzand finally cairo. note we need again the SSE instructions plus we have to specify the location of the X development libraries. If you don't have it, refer to apple support on how to install Xcode tools and X11.
tar -zxf fontconfig-2.4.92.tar.gz
cd fontconfig-2.4.92
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686"
make
sudo make install
wget http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.14.tar.gznow that we have cairo done, we can do pango:
tar -zxf cairo-1.4.14.tar.gz
cd cairo-1.4.14
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-xlib --x-includes=/usr/X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib CFLAGS="-arch i686 -msse2"
make
sudo make install
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pango/1.19/pango-1.19.4.tar.bz2libjpeg has a special rule hidden inside the makefile, that you don't want to miss:
tar -jxf pango-1.19.4.tar.bz2
cd pango-1.19.4
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686 -msse2"
make
sudo make install
wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gzand the last one, libtiff:
tar -zxf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
./configure --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-arch i686"
make
sudo make install
sudo make install-lib
wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gzwe are now all ready to the big guy:
tar -zxf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
cd tiff-3.8.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-apple-opengl-framework CFLAGS="-arch i686"
make
sudo make install
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.12/gtk+-2.12.8.tar.bz2and voilá ! it took me many hours to get here, I hope you can do it in minutes ;)
tar -jxf gtk+-2.12.8.tar.bz2
cd gtk+-2.12.8
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --x-includes=/usr/X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib CFLAGS="-arch i686 -msse2"
make
sudo make install
We are not ready for UMIT yet. We need the python bindings still. see you in the next adventure.
update: thanks to Gregory and Antoine for pointing out the typos
