Re: compilation of emacs 25.1 with xwidgets on os x

[Alex Dunn]

X11 was deliberately removed from the whole GTK dependency tree, so 
unfortunately such a patch won't be accepted (the rationale is the poor user 
experience that X11 provides on macOS). 

> On Aug 20, 2016, at 10:54, Alan Schmitt <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-08-19 20:55, Alex Dunn <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> There’s a separate issue with trying to get xwidgets on Emacs via
>> Homebrew, which is that the build of GTK+3 supplied by Homebrew does not
>> include the X11 backend, which is required by xwidgets.
> 
> Thanks for the information. As soon as I get over the webkitgtk hurdle,
> I’ll look at a patch to include that option in the gtk+3 brew package.
> 
> Alan
> 
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