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

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. 
> 

Theoretically x11 and xcode should no longer be necessary with gtk 2.12
libs and the osx backend that's now available - I know Anant was working
on a macports prebuilt version, you should ask him how things are
progressing on that front.

http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/

you may have to wait for 2.14 to have the edges smooth for building and
distributing but great progress (and no more X11!)