URL:
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Summary: Configure is unable to detect frameworks
Project: Freeciv
Submitted by: doctorjlowe
Submitted on: Sat 11 Jun 2011 03:00:44 PM GMT
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Release:
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: Mac OS
Planned Release:
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Details:
Background: on OSX, many dependencies are provided as a so-called 'framework'
that includes the function library, documentation, and headers in a bundle.
For example, the official Mac binaries for both SDL and QT are only provided
as frameworks.
This becomes an issue when a Mac user attempts to build freeciv against
either of the above mentioned interfaces. Even though i have the QT framework
installed and am able to compile QT programs, "autogen.sh --enable-client=qt"
eventually fails with: "checking Qt headers... not found".
Such headers are not in /usr/include , but rather [for example]
/Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/4/Headers/QApplication .
Further information can be found here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFrameworks/Frameworks.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000183-SW1
.
I propose that we modify configure to detect frameworks, combined with minor
changes to preprocessor directives and compile time arguments to allow them to
be used by freeciv. I have found an example of how another project handled
this here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/918 .
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