[GRASS-dev] Re: OSX GRASS.app build news

[Michael Barton]

William,

I tried out the new build system for Mac OS X and it worked great. AFAICT,
the make install created a perfect GRASS.app

This system will be excellent for compiling on the Mac OSX. With your
framework build for the libraries, it make compiling reasonably accessible
to even terminal averse Mac users.

As usual, I had to go into /lib/proj and /gui/tcltk/d.m and individually run
make in these folders. I don't understand why this is so, since both
compiled fine from within the folders.

I hope that someone with makefile experience can help you get these changes
permanently into the GRASS cvs like the debian and rmp setups.

Michael


On 2/20/07 8:57 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> If you're not too busy and would like to test it, I submitted a set
> of patches to the new tracker to add a Mac OS X app build to GRASS.
> 
> Apply the patches to the corresponding files in the existing grass
> source (you may want to save backups).  Drop the macosx folder in the
> top level of the source.
> 
> Configure as you normally would, except set the prefix:
> 
> --prefix=/Applications
> 
> BUT don't make yet.  Since the needed configure flag isn't available
> yet (I don't know how to patch configure.in), you must manually
> enable the app build.  Edit platform.make and change the MACOSX_APP =
> @MACOSX_APP@ line to:
> 
> MACOSX_APP = 1
> 
> Now, when you make, the macosx folder will be built.  The install
> completes the process.  By default, TclTk X11 is bundled in the
> package.  The bindist target (make bindist) might be preferable so
> you don't overwrite an existing GRASS.app.  Unlike the unix bindist
> which tarballs the binary and includes an install script, the OSX app
> bindist just packages the app like the install does and put it in the
> GRASS source folder, then you can drag it to whereever you like
> (considering the no-spaces-in-pathname rule).
> 
> 
> Since the @MACOSX_APP@ bit in platform.make will force an app build,
> if you want to disable the app build delete that part, so you get:
> 
> MACOSX_APP =
> 
> (or use the original platform.make.in and reconfigure)
> 
> The other patches won't get in the way of a unix-style build.
> 
> 
> It would be great if you could try this.  If someone doesn't pick
> this one up soon, maybe you know who to bug ^_^
> 
> -----
> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com>
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
> 
> "We are at war with them. Neither in hatred nor revenge and with no
> particular pleasure I shall kill every ___ I can until the war is
> over. That is my duty."
> 
> "Don't you even hate 'em?"
> 
> "What good would it do if I did? If all the many millions of people
> of the allied nations devoted an entire year exclusively to hating
> the ____ it wouldn't kill one ___ nor shorten the war one day."
> 
> <Ha, ha> "And it might give 'em all stomach ulcers."
> 
> - Tarzan, on war
> 

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Arizona State University

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