Using Terminal to compile Freetype, FontForge, and Wine (NOT DARWINE)

Question

Level 1

5 points

Using Terminal to compile Freetype, FontForge, and Wine (NOT DARWINE)

Hey there.. Im trying to build FreeType, FontForge, and Wine from source to install on my Mac. Ive downloaded the tar.bz2 files of each and unarchived them using archive manager. I have very little compiling experience.. I did alittle bit of it on Arch Linux using ABS, the Arch Build System, and compiled maybe one driver on Ubuntu 8.10.. how would I go about installing these packages?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 16, 2009 12:35 PM

Reply

Answer 1

ericmeyers

Level 4

1,410 points

Feb 16, 2009 2:04 PM in response to Fios89

Installing MacPorts will make this a lot easier.

http://www.macports.org/

Then to install Wine

In a terminal ...
sudo port install wine

Install the others similarly.

Eric

Reply

Answer 2

Fios89 Author

Level 1

5 points

Feb 16, 2009 3:33 PM in response to ericmeyers

I actually got smart for a minute and read the readme file and figured it out.. I installed free type fine via compiling andstarted to do fontforges dependencies. Will I have issues f iswitch now to macports? Also for some reason pango won't recognize that I have glib 2.19.6. Do I need to exportmy path to somewhere else than /usr/local for pango to find it?

Reply

Answer 3

ericmeyers

Level 4

1,410 points

Feb 16, 2009 3:43 PM in response to Fios89

MacPorts won't interfere with anything.

Eric

Reply

Answer 4

Fios89 Author

Level 1

5 points

Feb 16, 2009 3:48 PM in response to ericmeyers

Will it auto resolve dependencies or will I have to manually install

Reply

Answer 5

ericmeyers

Level 4

1,410 points

Feb 16, 2009 3:57 PM in response to Fios89

Automagically. Give it a try.

Eric

Reply

Answer 6

Fios89 Author

Level 1

5 points

Feb 16, 2009 5:57 PM in response to ericmeyers

Awesome.. dude you are teh man. I didnt feel like figuring out why pango wouldnt pick up that I upgraded Glib.. I figured it was cause Glib already exists somewhere else where I was building the new install to and Pango was reading from the Directory it originates in upon install.

Reply

Answer 7

ericmeyers

Level 4

1,410 points

Feb 16, 2009 6:20 PM in response to Fios89

Outstanding.

I don't know what your intentions are for Wine, but if it's to run a Windows app you might want to check out http://www.virtualbox.org/

Eric

Reply

Answer 8

Fios89 Author

Level 1

5 points

Feb 16, 2009 6:44 PM in response to ericmeyers

I wanna run FFXI under wine. Dont I lose direct 3d Acceleration if i do a virtual desktop? I couldnt get this to run under VMWare Fusion 1.0 or Parallels 3.0.

Reply

Answer 9

ericmeyers

Level 4

1,410 points

Feb 16, 2009 6:49 PM in response to Fios89

Bummer. I don't think VirtualBox can handle the 3d acceleration either.

Eric

Reply

Answer 10

Fios89 Author

Level 1

5 points

Feb 16, 2009 6:52 PM in response to ericmeyers

Yeah.. I dont think its available for Virtualization.. same as 64-Bit OS's only 32 bit is supported.

Reply

Answer 11

Fios89 Author

Level 1

5 points

Feb 16, 2009 7:25 PM in response to ericmeyers

hey buddy I ran into a problem using ports.. I ran port install fontforge.. it goes thru all the compiling crap.. and I get this:

Warning: the following items did not execute (for xorg-libX11): org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: giflib xorg-libX11 xorg-libsm xorg-libice jpeg libpng libuninameslist tiff xorg-libXi xorg-libXext xorg-libxkbui xorg-libxkbfile
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Reply

Answer 12

ericmeyers

Level 4

1,410 points

Feb 17, 2009 3:19 PM in response to Fios89

No problem here. Did you forget it's sudo port install fontforge ?


sudo port install fontforge
---> Fetching giflib
---> Attempting to fetch giflib-4.1.6.tar.bz2 from http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/giflib
---> Verifying checksum(s) for giflib
---> Extracting giflib
---> Applying patches to giflib
---> Configuring giflib
---> Building giflib
---> Staging giflib into destroot
---> Installing giflib @4.1.6_0
---> Activating giflib @4.1.6_0
---> Cleaning giflib
---> Fetching libuninameslist
---> Attempting to fetch libuninameslist-20080409.tar.bz2 from http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/libuninameslist
---> Verifying checksum(s) for libuninameslist
---> Extracting libuninameslist
---> Configuring libuninameslist
---> Building libuninameslist
---> Staging libuninameslist into destroot
---> Installing libuninameslist @20080409_0
---> Activating libuninameslist @20080409_0
---> Cleaning libuninameslist
---> Fetching libxml2
---> Attempting to fetch libxml2-2.7.2.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Gnome/sources/libxml2/2.7/
---> Attempting to fetch libxml2-2.7.2.tar.gz from http://ftp.linux.org.uk/mirrors/ftp.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.7/
---> Attempting to fetch libxml2-2.7.2.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/libxml2
---> Verifying checksum(s) for libxml2
---> Extracting libxml2
---> Configuring libxml2
---> Building libxml2
---> Staging libxml2 into destroot
---> Installing libxml2 @2.7.21+darwin9
---> Activating libxml2 @2.7.21+darwin9
---> Cleaning libxml2
---> Fetching tiff
---> Attempting to fetch tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz from ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/
---> Verifying checksum(s) for tiff
---> Extracting tiff
---> Configuring tiff
---> Building tiff
---> Staging tiff into destroot
---> Installing tiff @3.8.22darwin9macosx
---> Activating tiff @3.8.22darwin9macosx
---> Cleaning tiff
---> Fetching fontforge
---> Attempting to fetch fontforge_full-20080927.tar.bz2 from http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/fontforge
---> Attempting to fetch cidmaps.tgz from http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
---> Attempting to fetch fontforge_htdocs-20080927.tar.bz2 from http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/fontforge
---> Verifying checksum(s) for fontforge
---> Extracting fontforge
---> Applying patches to fontforge
---> Configuring fontforge
---> Building fontforge
---> Staging fontforge into destroot
---> Installing fontforge @20080927_0
---> Activating fontforge @20080927_0
---> Cleaning fontforge

Reply

Answer 13

Fios89 Author

Level 1

5 points

Feb 17, 2009 3:36 PM in response to ericmeyers

I dont have to, i did it the lazymans way and did sudo su to give me perma god rights. I figured out what happened.. my macports DOES NOT auto resolve dependencies.. so for example if I need xproto 7.0.3 for something.. I need to manually do port install xorg-xproto to get it THEN re run my last install command. Doesnt matter anyway I got it all to work but Wine wont run my app.. think I need to download openGL.. prolly update my graphics card too I havent since oh I dont know the day I got my notebook over a year ago.. I use the intel GMA 950 l33tness of a card

Reply

Answer 14

ericmeyers

Level 4

1,410 points

Feb 17, 2009 4:47 PM in response to Fios89

That's strange. Mine has always resolved dependencies like I posted above. Guess it doesn't matter. Sorry Wine didn't work out.

Eric

Reply

Answer 15

Fios89 Author

Level 1

5 points

Feb 17, 2009 4:57 PM in response to ericmeyers

Well it does.. and sometimes it doesnt. I dont know.. I didnt expect it to work on my Mac anyway.. It works on Ubuntu Linux I just need to tweak it.. If it works well on that im either porting Gentoo to my Mac or Ubuntu and dualboot that instead of Windows.

Reply