OsiriX [Was: environment]

[Fred Kiefer]

The error message you where getting in the first place was a bug in 
pbxbuild, which required that all targets, even non-apps, had an 
INFOPLIST_FILE entry in their configuration. This and a few other minor 
bugs should be fixed now. Please update from SVN.

From the last time somebody tried to compile OsiriX I remember that 
this wasn't working with GNUstep. I tried to get it working myself at 
the time and found that this wasn't possible even after fixing the 
trivial problems I had first. OsiriX seems to rely on plenty of 
libraries that aren't around in a standard Linix system and some of the 
code isn't written in a portable way. I am willing to help you get as 
far as I did at that time, but please don't expect too much.

Cheers
Fred

On 12.08.2011 20:19, Philip G Batchelor wrote:
> I have a question, sorry in advance for my ignorance of the context.
>
> I just installed GNUStep on my Ubuntu system, with the aim of trying to
> compile Osirix. After lots of Google searches, I got the impression that
> it wasn't done often, but someone might have been successful.
>
> I first installed GNUStep from Ubuntu repositories, but I was still
> missing a tool to generate Makefiles for Osirix as it is using xcode (a
> concept I don't know well, I have never had OSX). From further googling,
> I found remarks about a tool called pbxbuild, but it wasn't in the
> Ubuntu repository as far as I can tell, thus I uninstalled and used the
> svn GNUStep--which does contain it. But when I runt it on the
> Osirix.xcodeproj, I get:
>
>  >pbxbuild OsiriX.xcodeproj/
> 2011-08-12 19:13:04.619 pbxbuild[19549] Warning: Unknown reference type
> 'XCVersionGroup' in PBXGroup!
> 2011-08-12 19:13:04.933 pbxbuild[19549] File NSData.m: 161. In
> readContentsOfFile Open ((null)) attempt failed - bad path
>
> I guess something is wrong with a path? I did run GNUstep.sh
> I also see mentions of zcode, what's the status compared to pbxbuild?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ph
>
> PS: more details:
> I managed to compile GNUStep (make, base,gui,back) , and install as
> recommended, and indeed, it seems the environment I get doesn't
> correspond to what is described in ./core/make/GNUstep-HOWTO
>
> I had installed with ./configure without prefix. After that failure I
> retried ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
>
> I did run the recommended script GNUStep.sh, and as this didn't help, I
> was going to try to set environment variables manually, but for example
> the HOWTO says to set:
> 'PATH="/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools:"
>
> the problem is I can't find a System/Tools folder!?
>
>
> Would anyone have a hint of something to try? I'm thinking I need to
> clean my environment from previous installation attempts somehow anyway,
> but I might also have missed a compilation-install step.