crash on MacOSX 10.6 about shoes-deprecated

[atomicules]

It's interesting that it runs at all. As far as I know, no one has got Shoes to build on Snow Leopard yet, until we do then there's not much we can do to fix crashes. Have you tried running some of the sample apps that come with Shoes? It would be interesting to know if it crashes with everything or just certain apps. Also whether crashes are repeatable.

[bloopletech]

I've just been trying to build the latest git clone under OS X 10.6. I installed the dependencies using macports - you may want to note that you need to do 'sudo port install +quartz' (note the extra quartz option) to install cairo for shoes. Also, I had to do 'sudo port install libungif'.

I also needed to patch the Rakefile so that there was a space after the '-o' in the gcc command, so that the output was '-o shoes/canvas.c'; otherwise the .o files get dropped in the main dir, not the shoes dir.

I also needed to run 'export ARCHFLAGS=x86_64' before running rake, otherwise gcc will try and build i386 files, which will fail if any of the dependencies do not have i386 sections.

Now the build is complaining:

Undefined symbols:
"_GetWindowPort", referenced from:
_shoes_native_surface_new in cocoa.o
"_ATSFontActivateFromFileSpecification", referenced from:
_shoes_load_font in cocoa.o
ld: symbol(s) not found

The first error seems to be explained more by this: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1077605.html?thread=20081509

Looks like some changes to the OS X native code in Shoes are needed to fix this.

[atomicules]

blooptech, thanks for the info and link. Someone else trying to build on Snow Leopard, but with a different approach: trying to build everything as 32 bit so the Carbon code (GetWindowPort(), etc) would still work. I'll point them to your comment.

(Their last email can be found by going here: http://librelist.com/browser/ selecting the Shoes list and clicking on 06-Feb).

It would be great to get everything to Cocoa, if anyone wants to take it on it would be much appreciated.

[atomicules]

This issue can probably be merged with 12 (Building on Snow Leopard). See this comment there: http://github.com/shoes/shoes/issues/#issue/12/comment/257561

[steveklabnik]

Closing due to oldness and tons of changes on OSX. Should be fixed?