This is my story on compiling and running Inkscape in macosx 10.2.8 with XDarwin and a gnome installation.

Thank you to Colin in this mailing list for sharing his experience on similar compiling problems in Solaris.

Albert

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OS: macosx 10.2.8

Need a gnome installation. May get that through fink.

Install xml-parser-pm560 in finkcommander (the xml perl parser)

Set a few environmental variables:

setenv CPATH "/sw/include" setenv LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/X11R6/lib:/sw/lib" setenv LIBS "-L/sw/lib -lintl "

Error: No package 'sigc++-1.2' found ---------> Install libsigc++-shlibs in finkcommander

Same error: installed libsigc is version 1.0.4 ---------> Installing libsigc 1.2.5 from source, from sourceforge.

Same error.

setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" (where the sigc++-1.2.pc file is)

ok

output: =======

Configuration:

Source code location: . Compiler: g++ CPPFLAGS: CXXFLAGS: -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 LDFLAGS:

Use POPT argument parser: yes Use Xft font database: yes Use gnome-print: no Use openoffice files: yes Use MMX optimizations: no

make ====

Fails at: nr-type-directory.cpp: In function `bool ink_strstr(const char*, const char*)': nr-type-directory.cpp:302: `strcasestr' undeclared (first use this function) nr-type-directory.cpp:302: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)

Colin from inkscape-users mailing list suggested commenting out the #ifndef WIN32 ... #else .. #endif, so that a strcasestr function is provided by the nr-type-directry.cpp file itself.

WORKS

Now fails at: In file included from /usr/include/dirent.h:64, from init.cpp:15: /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:73: 'u_int32_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:74: 'u_int16_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:75: 'u_int8_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:76: 'u_int8_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type.

On the web I've found dirent.h needs the declarations from types.h rigth before it, or won't compile. Let's try.

In file ./src/extension/init.cpp ... #include <types.h> -----> FAILS

#include "/usr/include/ppc/types.h" ----> WORKS

Developers could introduce a #ifdef darwin #include "/usr/include/ppc/types.h" #endif

COMPILED !

Now, ./inkscape in src folder works, but prints many critical problems. It all has to do with hard-wired links to /usr/local/share/... folders, non-existant when not installed.

make install

WORKS without printing errors. Good.