Re: AbiWord on Cocoa

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:02 PM, W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org> wrote:
>
> A few months ago (or perhaps longer) there was talk of the revitalization
> of the Cocoa port of AbiWord. Since then there has been a bug (#12446)
> submitted and fixed with respect to compiling on Snow Leopard. I have
> even downloaded and compiled 2.8.6 on Snow Leopard + MacPorts. However,
> when I run AbiWord, it does not display anything. I poked around in the
> main function and confirmed it gets to the point where it hands control
> over to Cocoa. But after this happens, AbiWord just stalls on the
> command line and never does anything.
>
> Is anyone using AbiWord on Snow Leopard?

I do, but not using MacPort (directly). I build the dependencies
(cairo, pango, etc) manually. AFAIK, MacPort default to using X11 for
that.
Also make sure you the application bundle wrapper with the nib files.

Cheers,
Received on Fri Nov 5 21:27:55 2010