Re: running php-gtk2 on mac

Benjamin Smith wrote: > My challenge with Macintosh hasn't been getting it to work. It's been getting > it to work for end users. It seems that getting anything beyond "Drag the > icon to your desktop" to work without intense frustration is nigh impossible. > > For what it's worth, I've been maintaining a mac port of PHP4-GTK1 for OSX to > support my PHP-GTK software. Over the last year, I've gotten it refined so > that installing my software is almost as easy as, for example, Firefox - > download the file, double-click the .tgz icon, double-click the > resulting .app icon. > > The path to making this so is anything but simple: > > 1) The end user has to have Xcode and X11 libraries installed from their O/S > DVD. > Theoretically x11 and xcode should no longer be necessary with gtk 2.12 libs and the osx backend that's now available - I know Anant was working on a macports prebuilt version, you should ask him how things are progressing on that front. http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/ you may have to wait for 2.14 to have the edges smooth for building and distributing but great progress (and no more X11!)