Re: compiling development sources on mac

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 19, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:57:12AM -0500, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>> I use Fink for my dependencies. Fink uses gcc 4.4.2 when it
>>>> can. Since FLKT does not build with non-Apple compilers on Mac OSX,
>>>> Fink uses gcc 4.2.1 for FLTK. Mixing gcc 4.4.2 and 4.4.1 appears to
>>>> be a problem for me since libtool was added (I get a bus-error when
>>>> I try to run octave).
>>> 
>>> I was seeing the same thing (trouble linking with the MacPorts fltk)
>>> but I was able to install fltk from source, built with the MacPorts
>>> compilers, and link it with octave-3.2.3.
>> 
>> If you're able to produce a working binary, please let me know which
>> gcc you use for FLTK? ... and what compiler are you use for the
>> fortran dependencies.
> 
> I configured fltk-1.1.9 with the command
> 
>       ./configure CC=gcc-mp-4.3 CXX=g++-mp-4.3

Does the build produce a quartz or x11 result?

> and make sure that /usr/local/bin/fltk-config showed up in my path
> before the macports /opt/local/bin/fltk-config.  Then I was able to
> build octave-3.2.3 with
> 
>       ./configure CC=gcc-mp-4.3 CXX=g++-mp-4.3 F77=gfortran-mp-4.3 
> LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib LIBS=-lmetis
> 
> and successfully use backend("fltk") from within the binary.

I'm also able to build and run 3.2.3. It is the developer's sources (which uses 
libtool) that are giving trouble :-(

With 3.2.3, I'm able to use FLTK-aqua/quartz. I haven't tried x11 yet.

Ben