I finally traced my problem to a missing pango.modules file. shoes-launch sets things up to look for pango.modules in the main app directory, but for whatever reason it didn't get copied into there. If I manually copy it from my pango install into the Shoes.app directory, I can get it to work. Maybe this will work for your macports problem as well?
-Kevin On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Christian Bryan <[email protected]>wrote: > JFYI, I'm having the same problem but there's a twist. I'm working on a > Portfile for shoes on macports and I only get the white boxes when I build > my Portfile. Everything seems fine when I build manually outside of > macports. > > On Jan 11, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Kevin Ball wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been playing with Shoes, and found a few bugs that I want to try to > debug & fix as a way to better understand the framework. However, so far > I've been stymied in attempting to get a Shoes development environment up > and running. > > If I follow the MacPorts instructions from > http://wiki.github.com/why/shoes/buildingshoesonosx, I end up with Shoes > where all text is being rendered as little white boxes. I suspect this is a > problem with either cairo or pango, but when I try building those manually > (in several different versions) I end up with the same problem. I'd like > to try _why's prepackaged dependencies from > http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/deps/deps-osx-intel-1.6.4-1.20.2.tar.gzbut > I'm getting a 404 when I try. > > Anyone have any ideas or recommendations for me to try? Thanks > > -Kevin > > >
