Porting a GTK+ App to Mac OSX

macos gtk porting
hannenz picture hannenz · Apr 19, 2012 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I have a GTK+ Application (ready with Autotools) which i have developed on my Linux box. Now I need to port this one to OSX. I have successfully installed jhbuild, which in turn installed GTK+ and stuff on the Mac (10.5.8)

I just don't know what to do next. Trying to ./configure && make && make install (on my app copied to the Mac) fails since pkg-config is not installed on the Mac.

Do I really need to write a jhbuild moduleset in order to compile this app? I need two libraries as well: libxml2 and libsoup-2.4. Will jhbuild tae care for integrating them...?!

My question now is: What is the simplest way to port a GTK+ Application to OSX and is there a tutorial or how-to on it?

Answer

Samantha Catania picture Samantha Catania · Jan 8, 2013

I recommend installing Homebrew which is a command line package manager for mac. Once installed open terminal and run brew install pkg-config to install pkg-config then brew install gtk+ and/or brew install gtk+3 to install gtk+ 2 or 3 respectively. After that is done you should be able to compile with your makefiles.

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