Re: new developer release with cairo integration

Okay, the problem seems to be that some gettext-tools (in this case,
msgfmt) weren't linked in properly.

Never mind!

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Adrian Petrescu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey xboard-devel!
>
> I'm trying to build this latest dev release from master (super-excited
> about SVG), but I'm getting the following build error on OS X 10.8.2:
>
> make  all-recursive
> Making all in po
> test ! -f ./xboard.pot || \
>   test -z "da.gmo de.gmo es.gmo it.gmo ru.gmo tr.gmo uk.gmo vi.gmo
> zh_CN.gmo zh_HK.gmo zh_TW.gmo" || make da.gmo de.gmo es.gmo it.gmo ru.gmo
> tr.gmo uk.gmo vi.gmo zh_CN.gmo zh_HK.gmo zh_TW.gmo
> rm -f de.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o de.gmo de.po
> rm -f da.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o da.gmo da.po
> rm -f es.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o es.gmo es.po
> rm -f it.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o it.gmo it.po
> rm -f ru.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o ru.gmo ru.po
> rm -f tr.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o tr.gmo tr.po
> rm -f vi.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o vi.gmo vi.po
> rm -f uk.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o uk.gmo uk.po
> mv: rename t-it.gmo to it.gmo: No such file or directory
> mv: rename t-de.gmo to de.gmo: No such file or directory
> mv: rename t-es.gmo to es.gmo: No such file or directory
> mv: rename t-da.gmo to da.gmo: No such file or directory
> mv: rename t-ru.gmo to ru.gmo: No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [it.gmo] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[3]: *** [de.gmo] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [da.gmo] Error 1
> mv: rename t-tr.gmo to tr.gmo: No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [es.gmo] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [ru.gmo] Error 1
> mv: rename t-vi.gmo to vi.gmo: No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [tr.gmo] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [vi.gmo] Error 1
> mv: rename t-uk.gmo to uk.gmo: No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [uk.gmo] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [stamp-po] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> (I used to be able to build in this environment with no problem).
>
> Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Let me know if there's any other
> details about my build environment you need!
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Arun Persaud <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> there is a new developer release available with some bigger changes. We
>> now use cairo for most or all of the drawing and SVGs for the pieces.
>> This allowed for example to make the XBoard main window resizable ;)
>>
>> Try it out and let us know how its working for you and what we can/need
>> improve on! It would also be great to know if the configure scripts
>> works on all operating systems.
>>
>> The next item on the list is doing the GTK port (again). You can already
>> try it out in HGM's git tree if you want. Due to lot of restructuring
>> lately we now are in a position of only having Xt calls in a very small
>> amount of files and are just porting those. In the end we want to have
>> Xt and Gtk in parallel available (via configure --with-gtk or something
>> like that) and perhaps also get a native OS X front-end and perhaps
>> update the native windows one.
>>
>> We were also thinking about adding some kind of theme-support, which
>> will probably come after the gtk port. More or less it will let you
>> choose which svg directory you want to use together with some other
>> items such as background texture for the board and colors. The
>> mono-option will then just be a mono-theme for example.
>>
>> HGM can probably give a more detailed update, since I was only involved
>> in some configure questions, SVGs and other very minor details.
>>
>> cheers
>>         ARUN
>>
>>
>