Re: RFC: New release and abandoning MacOS?

Matt Broughton <[email protected]> writes:

>> On Aug 7, 2024, at 6:53 AM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Matt Broughton <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>> The third party package managers for macos are fink, mac ports, and
>>> brew.  One of them might be interested.  I have used all three of them
>>> at one point or another.
>> 
>> pkgsrc also builds for macos, among many others.
>
> Thanks for the information Greg.  Somehow I missed that resource.
>
> The nice thing about using a package manager for macos is that the
> package maintainer will make sure that libusb is available.  All of
> the existing macos v5.3.x packages break Solomon's backend because
> libusb was not built against the static library.  My attempts to build
> against a static libusb have failed.  From searching the web, there
> seems to be little, if any, real support for building against static
> libraries.
> Matt

I am not quite following.  Are you trying to build a gutenprint dynamic
library that has somehow included ilbusb?   I don't understand why you
would need to do this, but I'm used to a world where all the instsalled
libraries are ok.


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