Mac library build: gtk+-2.24.23 fails?

[stpope (Stephen Travis Pope)]

Hello team,

I’ve gone back to square 1 without homebrew or fink, and have most of the libraries built, BUT, with the patched version of gtk±2.24.23 I get the following:

[shell] ./configure --with-gdktarget=quartz --enable-quartz-relocation
config appears to work fine

[shell] make
compiles all the quartz files, then,

libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I… -DG_LOG_DOMAIN="Gdk" -DGDK_COMPILATION -I… -I… -I…/gdk -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/local/include/fribidi -I/usr/local/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/local/include/libpng16 -I/usr/local/include/cairo -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/libpng16 -I/usr/local/include -DG_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES -DATK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES -DGTK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -w -I/opt/local/include -I/usr/local/include -Wno-deprecated -Wall -MT gdk.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/gdk.Tpo -c gdk.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/gdk.o

In file included from gdk.c:816:

./gdkaliasdef.c:220:102: error: aliases are not supported on darwin

extern __typeof (gdk_add_option_entries_libgtk_only) gdk_add_option_entries_libgtk_only __attribute((alias(“IA__gdk_add_option_entries_libgtk_only”), visibility(“default”)));

This error repeats many times.

I’m running on a MacStudio M1 Max with MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2

Can you see anything I’m doing wrong?

Many thanks in advance for any assistance…

stp

[peder (Peder Hedlund)]

Did you even google the error?

This is what I found

Gtk2 build fails on MacOS 10.12 and later: ./gdkaliasdef.c:220:102: error:...

Note that there’s officially no support for compiling Ardour yourself.
You should download the binary from Download Ardour | Ardour Community if you want a working and supported program.

[paul (Paul Davis)]

There are several reasons someone might want to build from source, and most of them are fairly positive.

Thanks for pointing them at a suitable resource (and technique) for the problem.

[stpope (Stephen Travis Pope)]

Hi Peder,

Yes, I did spend some time googling the error, but didn’t come up with anything as useful as the link you sent. Many thanks!

Stephen

[stpope (Stephen Travis Pope)]

By the way, the reason I’m building from sources is that I want to add a few extra call-backs for supporting touch-screen input. (See The "ShaleCrow" Project - progress and questions. I started it and then got dragged onto other projects for several years.)
I’m planning to (following Robin’s advice) add an OSC query like “get controllable at screen-pos (x, y)” so that I can map touch-screen input to OSC messages.
stp