Re: AbiWord on Cocoa

>> 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.

Thank you, that make sense. I was able to run AbiWord in this manner.

Is there a way to set CONTENTSDIR to something else than
/AbiWord.app/Contents when you run ./configure? Something like
/Applications/AbiWord.app/Contents would make sense.

By the way, MacPorts does build an X-free GTK stack. You just have to
specify the correct variants. I have written a little documentation on
this, available at http://www.flyn.org/apple/index.html.

Mike
Received on Sat Nov 6 00:09:32 2010