Re: [Swftools-common] Building with libs installed via Fink under OS X

[Dan Friedman]

On Thursday, November 11, 2004, at 03:30 PM, Matthias Kramm wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:29:11PM -0500, Dan Friedman wrote:
> > Now that I have swftools working, I'd like to share how I did it for 
> > the
> > benefit of any future Mac OS X/Fink user that comes along. Basically, 
> > you can
> > get all the required libs via Fink (jpeg, t1lib, freetype, lame), but 
> > then you
> > have to inform configure of where they are:
> >
> >  % ( setenv LDFLAGS "-L/sw/lib" ; setenv CPPFLAGS "-I/sw/include 
> > -I/sw/include/lame" ; ./configure )
> >  % make
> >  % sudo make install
>
> Thanks for that info. I'll also add that to the FAQ.
>
> I wonder, btw., whether configure should add /sw/lib and /sw/include to
> the LDFLAGS/CPPFLAGS automatically if it finds out to be running under
> Mac OS X. These are the default Fink installation paths, right?
>
> Greetings
>
> Matthias

Those are indeed the default Fink installation paths, but it seems that 
some of the other folks who've weighed in so far are able to satisfy 
the lib dependencies in other ways. I'm running under Jaguar, and 
haven't really investigated whether it came with any of the required 
libs out of the box; I just assumed it didn't, quickly found them all 
in Fink, installed them all, and proceeded with ./configure. I guess 
the Right Thing to do, at least from a configure script standpoint, 
would be to detect if Fink is installed somehow (perhaps see if the 
'fink' executable is anywhere in $PATH), then learn what the Fink 
install path is (I'd need to consult the docs for that, but I'm sure 
there's a way), and then set the LDFLAGS/CPPFLAGS if and only if some 
or all of the required libs are installed there. Of course, this 
doesn't address what to do in cases where Fink isn't installed, and/or 
some or all the dependencies might be met by other means as described 
in Rainer and Ksenia's posts.

I'm by no means expert in this, I'm afraid. Like I said, I just wanted 
to share what worked for me.
Hope this is helpful!

Dan