On 7/12/09 03:52, JiHO wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 14:51, Giovanni Lanzani <ulissesroc@...400...> wrote:
I was wondering, now that SL supports 64bit widely, is it possible to create an Inkscape build which runs in 64bit? lisanet.de already made one from Gimp, and it seems to be working much faster than before.
Of course in Gimp speed is more relevant than in Inkscape, but I guess a speed up is welcome (even if it would just be a startup speed up). Or are there things (like Python libraries, etc.) which prevent this?
No one has really every tried I think. Could you point us out to the gimp-64 bit thingy? Is it documented somewhere? All our dependencies come from macports while I think The Gimp has gotten more and more towards doing their own thing, or reinventing their own wheel if you are so inclined. It might be that, for this particular purpose, their wheel is better suited than ours.
Main goals of the current 'gimponosx' project afaiu are - use as many system libraries as possible - reduce the number of bundled MacPorts libraries - don't use $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH or rpath or rewriting the install_dir with install_name_tool
resulting in -among other things- these steps: - use a 'private' MacPorts tree with a prefix that is a link in /tmp for building all dependencies needed for GIMP - use a local MacPorts repository provided by 'gimponosx' (for portfiles, patches and some source tarballs) - build GIMP using the same prefix, the link in /tmp will be recreated on every system when launching GIMP.
You can browse the SVN repository and search for the changes to allow building a 64bit GIMP version on Snow Leopard: http://gimponosx.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gimponosx/
and there are news about the recent builds for Snow Leopard on the projects website: http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/Eintrage/2009/11/7_64-bit_GIMP_version_is_out.html
~suv
[sidenote: I don't understand why talking about the current 'Inkscape' and 'Gimp on OS X' projects always has this implied statement "but we are doing it better" (btw from both sides... ;-). Gimp builds the app skeleton differently, yes, but the question which way is better doesn't help to figure out how to build a 64bit Inkscape.app on SL imho.]