building gtkD on OS X

obijohn · Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 24

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on what's going wrong for me. This may be a DSS bug (see below), but since gtkD is being used on OS X I thought I'd ask here first to see if anyone else encountered this and what to do about it.

I'm also using LDC, though I don't think that's the problem either, since gtkD is listed as building successfully with LDC. I have the LDC-supplied rebuild configuration file ("ldc-posix-tango") set up, and I've got "Tango" defined in my DFLAGS.

The first thing that happens when trying to build gtkD is a complaint about a sed command:

obijohn · Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 24

Well, I'm not sure where the sed thing comes in, because I went directly into the gtkd/src directory and tried "dsss build" there. Now there is no sed error, but I still get the erro:
gtkc/atk.d(29): module stdio cannot read file 'std/stdio.d'
Command /usr/bin/rebuild returned with code 256, aborting.

I've tried DSSS on a simple project and it works pulling in the Tango flag, so I'm still stuck trying to figure out why it's not working with gtkD.

Mike Wey · Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 428

The sed errors probably come from trunk/demos/demoselect.sh this shouldn't be a big problem.
demoselect.sh sets up the dsss.conf for the demos, you can do this manually or build the demos separately.

As for the error with std.stdio, it look like version Tango is not set.

obijohn · Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 24

Mike Wey · Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 428

There is a makefile attached to ticket #31 that might be of some use.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/gtkd/attachment/ticket/31/GNUmakefile.2

obijohn · Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 24

Thanks for pointing out that Makefile. I was able to build gtkD using GDC with it almost as-is (after updating it to match the current source). A few edits and I was able to use LDC (finally!).

There were a couple of components missing (gio and glade, maybe another), and the TestWindow demo is in it's own subdirectory now so that part can be simplified in the Makefile.

Below is my updated Makefile for use with LDC in case anyone is interested and runs into the same kinds of problems with DSSS that I did. This version doesn't include the rest of the demos, and I'm sure it could be improved further.

Do "make libs" then "sudo make install" first. To compile the test, use "DFLAGS=-d-version=Tango make test" because the demo uses some Phobos functions like writefln in a debug block, not a Tango block (I'm sure there's a way to take out the -d-debug flag just for the test block in the Makefile, but I couldn't figure it out).