Re: [PHP-GTK] running php-gtk2 on mac

forgive me if i am wrong but couldn't you use something like Platypus  
to get an OS X app binary for this?  I found it very easy when  
creating an OS X app based on just a command line php script.

Joseph Crawford

On Feb 25, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote:

> My challenge with Macintosh hasn't been getting it to work. It's  
> been getting
> it to work for end users. It seems that getting anything beyond  
> "Drag the
> icon to your desktop" to work without intense frustration is nigh  
> impossible.
>
> For what it's worth, I've been maintaining a mac port of PHP4-GTK1  
> for OSX to
> support my PHP-GTK software. Over the last year, I've gotten it  
> refined so
> that installing my software is almost as easy as, for example,  
> Firefox -
> download the file, double-click the .tgz icon, double-click the
> resulting .app icon.
>
> The path to making this so is anything but simple:
>
> 1) The end user has to have Xcode and X11 libraries installed from  
> their O/S
> DVD.
>
> 2) The boot process is ridiculously complex:
> 	A) Icon links to a script file within the myicon.app directory.
> 	B) script mounts an embedded .dmg file so that the absolute path  
> requirements
> of php/gtk can be met.
> 	C) php/gtk has been source-compiled to the default mount directory  
> of the
> embedded .dmg. This was no small feat in itself, but you can get the  
> sources
> with compile scripts at http://chico.benjamindsmith.com/phpgtk_osx/
> 	D) Within the .dmg file are copies of binaries for both  
> architectures.
> (ppc/i386) uname is used to determine which set to run.
> 	E) Call to php/x11 made to launch the actual php-gtk script.
> 	F) PHP-GTK program launches.
> 	G) Background script is run to unmount the mounted drive. It tries  
> every 5
> seconds, will fail so long as script launched in F is run.
>
> 3) Binaries are all compiled on OSX 10.3. Older binaries work on newer
> releases, newer binaries don't work on older releases.
>
> Hard to come to? Yes. But it seems to be the best way from an end-user
> perspective. I've tried repeatedly to get rid of the requirement for  
> Xcode.
> (X11 isn't so bad, Xcode is over a GB)
>
> -Ben
>
> On Friday 08 February 2008, kksou wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My friend just bought an imac, and he wants to explore php-gtk2.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with the mac platform. I've only run php-gtk2 on  
>> windows
>> and linux.
>>
>> Was wondering if any mac user could give some advice:
>>
>> 1) I know OS X is a built on top of unix. So is it possible to  
>> download the
>> php-gtk2 source code and compile them just like what we did on  
>> linux? Is it
>> as straightforward as in linux? Or as complicated as in compiling on
>> windows?
>>
>> 2) The other alternative I was told is to use vmware to run linux  
>> or windows
>> on mac (think this might be an overkill).
>>
>> 3) Are there any resources on running/compiling php-gtk2 on mac?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your advice.
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>> /kksou
>>
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