Re: Building on Mac

Frank, did you build the recent Mac OS X release? :) Any clues?

On 2 November 2016 at 16:40, Max Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm now using Macports 2.3.4 on OS X 10.11.6.
> The configure script now finds pango, but fails later on...
> checking for ZLIB... yes
> checking for GLIB... yes
> checking for PANGO... yes
> checking for FREETYPE... yes
> checking for LIBXML... yes
> checking for library containing DGifOpenFileName... -lgif
> checking for library containing EGifGetGifVersion... no
> checking gif_lib.h usability... no
> checking gif_lib.h presence... no
> checking for gif_lib.h... no
> checking Build with GIFLIB or LIBUNGIF support?... no
> checking jpeglib.h usability... no
> checking jpeglib.h presence... no
> checking for jpeglib.h... no
> checking Build with JPEG support?... no
> checking png.h usability... no
> checking png.h presence... no
> checking for png.h... no
> checking Build with PNG support?... no
> checking tiffio.h usability... no
> checking tiffio.h presence... no
> checking for tiffio.h... no
> checking Build with TIFF support?... no
> checking for LIBCAIRO... yes
> checking Build with Cairo support?... configure: error: in
> `/Users/max/fontforge':
> configure: error: ERROR: Please install the Developer version of libpng
> See `config.log' for more details
>
> But libpng is installed, and png.h exists:
> $ pkg-config --cflags libpng
> -I/opt/local/include/libpng16
> $ ls /opt/local/include/libpng16
> png.h        pngconf.h    pnglibconf.h
>
> The configure script is not using the -I flag provided by pkg-config when
> it tests for png.h. Unfortunately my autotools-fu is too weak to see why or
> to fix it. How do I get configure to find my png.h?
>
> Best,
> Max
>
>
> On 2016/11/01 22:02, Jason Pagura wrote:
>
> Which Mac OSX are you running? I was recently able to build Fontforge
> using Macports on 10.7, but not 10.6. Frank Trampe helped me though that,
> though.
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Max Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It has been many years since I have been able to build a working
>> FontForge with a GUI on Mac. I'm using Homebrew but I can try installing
>> another package manager if it would help. How is it done? The configure
>> script dies after outputting
>>
>> """
>>
>> checking for PANGO... no
>> configure: error: Package requirements (pango >= 1.10 pangoxft) were not
>> met:
>>
>> Package 'xft', required by 'pangoxft', not found
>>
>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>
>> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PANGO_CFLAGS
>> and PANGO_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>>
>> """
>>
>> But the Homebrew package "pango" as well as "pangox-compat" are
>> installed. About a year ago I spent a whole day trying to get it
>> working, but unfortunately I've forgotten anything I managed to diagnose
>> then... Can anybody point me in the right direction to start? (Something
>> like "it'll never work with Homebrew because foo; use bar instead" could
>> save me a lot of wasted time)
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Max
>>
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