Re: MacPorts vs xquartz? (was Re: openmotif in macports dependencies and xquartz?)
Re: MacPorts vs xquartz? (was Re: openmotif in macports dependencies and xquartz?)
- Subject: Re: MacPorts vs xquartz? (was Re: openmotif in macports dependencies and xquartz?)
- From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:52:04 +0200
Hello.
Can I read this as I might manage to get vim/xim building with only macports libraries and not the ones shipped with Apple -And make it work without firing up X11.app ?
Den 31. mars 2011 kl. 23.25 skrev Jeremy Huddleston:
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> On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Philip J. Schneider wrote:
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>> Kinda highjacking my own thread here... :-)
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>> Considering Jeremy's feedback, I downloaded openmotif and all its dependencies, and so I can now build/run an X11 app using MacPorts-provided headers and libs. (That is, with only /opt/local-based paths specified in XCode.)
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>> A few questions:
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>> 1. In very general terms, how do the xquartz-provided X includes and libs differ from those provided by MacPorts? Pro/con on using one vs the other?
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> The ones in MacPorts are generally the latest versions.
> The ones from XQuartz are also generally the latest version as of the release date.
> The ones from Apple are a bit more dated / stable for consistency across major releases of the OS.
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>> 2. If one did want to distribute an X11 application that needed one or more X-related libraries not provided by the default system (e.g. openmotif), what would be the recommended approach? I might wish to assume that the users would not want to build up their own fink or MacPorts installation... :-)
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> I'd recommend using the host X11 libraries. Link your application (including extra libraries) against those, and ship everything not part of the system. You could use something like /opt/myapp as the prefix for building all your bits and just ship /opt/myapp (and probably place /opt/myapp/bin into $PATH via /etc/paths.h/myapp
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Best regards
Tommy Bollman
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