FLTK won't build on Mac OS

[Kevin Ingwersen]

Hello there.

I just downloaded Dillo because I wanted to use it for development, obviously. However, upon building FLTK, i had to realize its not build-able - and that is more a conflict on apple’s side. Once the Carbon headers are refferenced, i get a miles-long error message (it took me a while to find the top of all that O.o).

Will Dillo stay with FLTK or are there plans to move on with a newer GUI?

Kind regards,
Ingwie

[FRIGN]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:49:54 +0100

Post by Kevin Ingwersen
Hello there.
I just downloaded Dillo because I wanted to use it for development, obviously. However, upon building FLTK, i had to realize its not build-able - and that is more a conflict on apple’s side. Once the Carbon headers are refferenced, i get a miles-long error message (it took me a while to find the top of all that O.o).
Will Dillo stay with FLTK or are there plans to move on with a newer GUI?
Kind regards,
Ingwie

Hey Ingwie,

always keep in mind: newer =!= better!
It would be great if you could provide these "miles-long" error-logs to
us so we get an idea what the problem is. It could as well be a problem
limited to your system.
Back in the old days when I used Mac OS X, it was a daily struggle to
even get the simplest program to compile. Now I'm on Gentoo for good
reasons.
MacPorts offers a build for dillo [1]. You might want to try that
out before suggesting us to rewrite big parts of the software or switching
toolkits!

Cheers

FRIGN


[1]: https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/www/dillo/Portfile

[Jorge Arellano Cid]

Post by Kevin Ingwersen
Hello there.

Hi.

Post by Kevin Ingwersen
I just downloaded Dillo because I wanted to use it for
development, obviously. However, upon building FLTK, i had to
realize its not build-able - and that is more a conflict on
apple?s side. Once the Carbon headers are refferenced, i get a
miles-long error message (it took me a while to find the top of
all that O.o).

Which FLTK version are you trying to build?
Dillo uses 1.3.x

AFAIK, FLTK is buildable on Macs since long ago. Even the
newest 3.0 branch. You may ask FLTK developers shall the problem
persist. (www.fltk.org)

Post by Kevin Ingwersen
Will Dillo stay with FLTK or are there plans to move on with a newer GUI?

Plans are to stay with FLTK.