On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Jeffrey Van Voorst <[email protected]> wrote: >> are you using darwinports? > > ports and fink were driving me to drinking so I switched to homebrew.
:) > The homebrew community thinks that Xcode is the way to go. oooo fuuuun. they're aware that Xcode deploys python 2.3 by default in macosx 10.4, right?? >> if not, where did you get the gcc / g++ compiler that you're using from? >> >> you may need to do "export AR=/whatever/location/ar/is/stored/ar" and >> re-run autoconf and configure. >> >> or change the "export PATH=" to ensure that the alternative ar >> archive application comes first in the path search order. >> >> .... you've not done c/c++ development on a unix platform before, have you? >> :) > > Worked on projects that have few if any external dependencies other > than standard C libs. ahh then this will stretch you a bit but otherwise be an interesting challenge. > I haven't tried Windows yet. woo-hoo-hoo, you're in for fun there :) i wasted an entiiire week of my life - 14 hours a day - once, getting webkit to compile for win32. i actually cross-compiled it using mingw32 (!) which had never been done before. i actually received congratulations from the webkit developer community for having achieved that. then i started doing the webkit-gobject bindings and it all went to shit :) l.
