On 2007-September-17 , at 10:45 , Alberto Simões wrote:
- Apple developer tools, downloadable from Apple. All the
documentation of frameworks need to be installed (they are huge), only the compilers. ca. 300MB
I think I have it all.
- MacPorts and some ports (i.e. libraries) there (=one command line
in the Terminal). ca. 500MB and some time (but only once, or once in a while, for upgrades)
I still use fink. Is it enough, or does MacPorts have anything different?
MacPorts provides newer versions of the packages that are in Fink. Inkscape requires these new versions (for GTK in particular) so it was mandatory to have MacPorts. However it has been since I last looked at the library versions in Fink. Which gtk and gtkmm versions does Fink unstable have? NB: in addition I have a better experience with MacPorts than with Fink unstable so I never looked back since I switched. Fink is nice when you can use the fast binary install but since Inkscape requires most versions from unstable, you're probably better off with a robust source based solution such as MacPorts.
Do you think you could help with the PPC builds? It would be great.
Probably :) Anyway, I might buy an intel mac in a few months, but until there, if I can at least prepare one snapshot I'll be happy to make it available.
that would be great! The Wiki page is quite up to date now so you should be able to get inkscape to compile following the instructions there: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX Please let me know if anything goes wrong, it will be a good occasion to check that the instructions are correct (you can also open up an account on Inkscape wiki and add you comments on the page along the process, so that they don't get lost)
Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/