Native GTK + Mac OS X + BaconGUI (UPDATED)

[ibob]

Hi! (UPDATED)
I been having problems getting the latest native GTK Framework for the Mac, simply because they dropped support to this and now there's a tool that will compile your C/C++ GTK apps automatically, instead of a framework. But well, I figured that Mono (www.mono-project.com) had the lates GTK libraries compiled under their lib install, and well I took them (just gtk and glib libraries), then compiled gtksourceview, and packed all together into an installer for SL and Lion i386, that will install Gtk.framework under your /Library/Frameworks folder, and you will be ready to make native GTK apps for your bacon projects.


Of course it would be great to have native COCOA libraries, but its not an easy task. GTK works very good anyway with quartz backend, but you need to install this framework...


UPDATE: Mono.framework libraries didn't work because the folder and other files dependency, so Now I've compiled (using MacPort) the universal version (32 and 64bit) binary of the GTK libraries.
You can download GTKNativeMacIntelUniv.zip, and there you will find two packages, one is "GTK_Native_Mac_Libraries_Installer.pkg" that is used to install the libraries in the opt folder on your system disk, so then you can use /opt/local/lib in your programs to reference libraries. And the second package (needed) is "GTK_Config_Extras.pkg" that will install the theme and a couple of config files gtk use in your home user folder.

Note: The only library I wasn't able to compile in universal mode was gtksourceview, so it's 64 bits only. If you need/want it in 32 bit you need to compile yourself and replace the 64 bit version under /opt/local/lib... Another thing to note is that is the pkg file is 220MB in size, but after installed it will eat 1gb of space because all the headers files and things... And an extra one, this contains gtk, glade, glib, cairo, gobject, and even sqlite3, libraries, but I haven't compiled GLUT and these, only what was needed for GUI and the libraries that were needed to satisfy dependencies. The good thing is that you get a bunch of extra libraries, like I said, sqlite, curl, xml, tiff, and other, and all of them in 32+64 bits (universal), use "file lib.dylib" to get info about the file, to know if it's 32 or 64, or universal...

So here you go:

www.ibobx.com/Software/GTKNativeMacIntelUniv.zip

Also, compiled BaconGui (again) into a 64 bit binary and bundled it into an .app file here:

www.ibobx.com/Software/BaconGui.zip



Hope it's useful,
Thanks, Roberto.

[Pjot]

Thanks for the work Roberto, the result looks great!

Regards,
Peter

[airr]

ibob,

I installed your package on a test machine, but it doesn't install a framework. Instead, it just installs the "Libraries" folder, which should be within a framework, directly into /Library.

Also, its missing the Headers and Resources folders.

I have a concern about the dylibs themselves, because when I run otool on them I see references like these:

/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.10.6/lib/libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 2401.0.0, current version 2401.5.0)
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.10.6/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 2801.0.0, current version 2801.4.0)
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.10.6/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 2801.0.0, current version 2801.4.0)
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.10.6/lib/libpango-1.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 2801.0.0, current version 2801.4.0)
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.10.6/lib/libatk-1.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 3316.0.0, current version 3316.1.0)

I don't have Mono installed here so this might be a problem. Here's what I mean by way of example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>


int main(int argc, char **argv) {

void *dll = dlopen("/Library/Frameworks/Libraries/libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib", RTLD_LAZY);

if (!dll) {
puts(dlerror());
}

if (dll) dlclose(dll);
return 0;
}

Compile with:
gcc testme.c -arch i386 -L/Library/Frameworks/Libraries/ -ldl -o testme

Here's the result:

./testme
dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Libraries/libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib, 1): Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.10.6/lib/libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Libraries/libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib
Reason: image not found

A.

[ibob]

Geez youre right! they depend on Mono.framework !That was too easy and worked so well! ;D Programming.... Let me see what I can do, but I will figure this out!!!

[ibob]

Oh Boy. As Avril Lavigne I wonder, I ask to these developers around the world, for those who created 10000 frameworks, 100000 GUI libraries, 100000 different O.S: "Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?" ;D
There's no way to make this to work, the only way is to build GTK from the source, 32 or 64 bits, and figure out all the styles, fonts, and specific OS things... For now I think the best solution is to Install Mono.framework, it's a framework anyway, and you get GTK libraries (32bits) with a nice integration. I will try to see what I can do with macports when I get the chance, but I am giving up with GTK+OSX and not sure if I am not change my direction and start looking into COCOA or something...

BTW: Sorry about this guys, I just wanted to help...

[ibob]

Well, at last! Using MacPorts, and some hacks I've got GTK+ 2 and the other libs compiled and running natively on Mac, both 32 and 64 bits, and with integrated themes! no mono, no anything! I will see how to make a distributable package and post it here

[ibob]

Well modified the first post.
Please, if somebody test, let me know. I did all the test I can, and everything works good.
Hope this time you guys get a good set of Mac libraries, and hope it's helpful!

Roberto.

[bu2b]

Works fine for me on OS X Lion, thanks ibob, this one gave me problems as well.

Thanks.

[ibob]

You welcome bu2b!
Now, you mean this one is giving you problems? or you meant that you had problems with the first Mono based libraries? This one should work good in 32 and 64 bits (gtksourceview is the only exception which I compiled for 64 bits only)?
Thanks for commenting and testing!

[ibob]

One tip for those don't know,
If you want to compile for a given architecture (32bit or 64bits), you can use the following syntax:

>bacon -o -mARCH file.bac

Where ARCH can be 32 or 64 "-m32" or "-m64"

Usually the default arch in Lion is x86_64 (64 bits)...

[bu2b]

Opps, sorry , meant I had problems getting the GUI to compile and run, and just finally gave up.

Your solution fixed everything, thanks again.

[ibob]

Oh great! good to hear!
Enjoy then!

[ibob]

Found the "why" and just compiled gtksourceview as universal. They where using a new mac integration system that wasnt compatible with both arch and had some dependency in the old carbon mac framework, so I edited the c source, removed this and leaved the gtk version only, and compiled! I am trying to get all the libs I can compiled as universal, and when I reach that, I will post a new pkg.

Screenshot: www.ibobx.com/images/bacongui32n64.png

[ibob]

Ok, replaced the zip. The new one pkg installer contains gtksourceview universal and the others...

[airr]

Good job, iBob.

Just one thing: Your .gtkrc-2.0 has a hard path to your home folder, so by default you get no theming (at least I didn't).

If I change the include line to:
include ".themes/AuroraSmooth/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

Then theming works.

Also, on my laptop (MBP-17 Unibody), the overall fonts (Menus, Dialogs) were too small, so I added:
font_name = "Lucida Grande 14"

As the first entry under the style "theme-default" section of the AuroraSmooth/gtk-2.0/gtkrc file.

Again, good job!

A.