How to compile and install glib and gtk+?

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How to compile and install glib and gtk+?

Hi,

I am trying to "configure", a "make", and "sudo make install" on the package glib-2.26.0.

I type ./configure which works fine but then when I type 'make' it gets to a certain point and then gives the following error message:

*#error GNU libiconv not in use but included iconv.h is from libiconv*

What does this mean? I've already installed iconv under /usr/bin so what exactly is going on here?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

PS: I originally had Leopard on my machine, and now I have Snow Leopard; does that mean that I have to rebuild every package from scratch?? Could this be causing the problem?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4), None

Posted on Oct 23, 2010 6:50 AM

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Answer 1

BobHarris

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Oct 23, 2010 8:43 PM in response to Mark Spezzano

This is really a better question for the Mac OS X Technologies > Unix Forum
<http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735>

Or one of the Mac OS X Technologies programming forums

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Answer 2

Bill Scott

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Oct 24, 2010 10:00 AM in response to Mark Spezzano

Actually this is not necessarily the wrong place to ask such a question (or was it moved to the unix forum? My head hurts). In my experience, gtk+2 and the associated software is not completely trivial to compile on OS X and to get working properly. I make fairly heavy daily use of it. I let fink do this for me.

One immediate suggestion: Try not to put this stuff in /usr/bin. If you can put it in /usr/local, or using fink, put it in /sw, or macports (a fink alternative some prefer), in /opt/local, it has the advantage of (a) not clobbering anything distributed with OS X, and (b) won't get clobbered by OS X updates.

I maintain precompiled versions of gtk+2 and all that other stuff, informally, to be installed via fink if you are interested.

If so, start here: My pre-compiled packages

Use the 64-bit version if you are able to.

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