Re: AbiWord on Cocoa

>> 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.

It looks odd but read the part about making the bundle at
   http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Compiling_AbiWord_on_Mac

You can move the application bundle wherever you want, but the dynamic
loader will still look for the libraries wherever they are. In short
it is not yet ready for redistribution.

> 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.

Yes but it is not the default. So if you don't know or pay attention,
it does not happen. I just wanted to make sure.

Cheers,
Received on Sat Nov 6 07:34:22 2010