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Code::Blocks unusable on Mac OS X 10.4
Auria:
--- Quote from: afb on March 11, 2008, 08:27:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: Seronis on March 11, 2008, 08:23:42 pm ---Is that a more stable way?
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The wxGTK port seems somewhat more stable, but I guess we'll see how it works for the people that are having problems with the wxMac version first - and whether X11 is acceptable or not...
--- Quote ---If so, is there any way a build of 8.02 could be released built in that manner?
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Sure, if there is enough demand there could be a version built that bundles GTK+ and wxGTK and doesn't require MacPorts installed. It will require Xcode Tools* and X11.app installed though.
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I'm somewhat involved in the mac port of GIMP, and all I can say is, stay as far from X11.app as you can... every week we get something in X11 broken, sometimes they arbitrarly change config files location, it was broken many times on leopard, it contains many broken libs on tiger, ilaunching method was chaned on leopard, it sometimes installs in /usr/X11, sometimes in /usr/X11R6, the updates you can download online install libraries versions older than the ones you previously had, it opens windows out of the screen, it causes memory corruption on many operations and causes crases... In sort, X11.app on mac is total hell :lol: better fix the native version.
I sould really take a look at it and try to fix some bugs. Now if I could get a faster computer, so that speed is a bit less of an hell
i also agree there should be some mention that the mac version may not be as stable as others (somewat embarrassing snce i recently asked for the mac verson to be listed on the website, however i didn't think it would be marked as stable as others)
afb:
--- Quote from: Auria on March 12, 2008, 06:00:36 pm ---I'm somewhat involved in the mac port of GIMP, and all I can say is, stay as far from X11.app as you can... every week we get something in X11 broken, sometimes they arbitrarly change config files location, it was broken many times on leopard, it contains many broken libs on tiger, ilaunching method was chaned on leopard, it sometimes installs in /usr/X11, sometimes in /usr/X11R6, the updates you can download online install libraries versions older than the ones you previously had, it opens windows out of the screen, it causes memory corruption on many operations and causes crases... In sort, X11.app on mac is total hell :lol: better fix the native version.
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As mentioned, both are available in MacPorts and wxGTK is slightly "better" (even if the wxgtk port is older than the other - uses 2.8.4 ANSI still). X11.app was rather broken, but is better now with 10.5.2 and the included updates from the Xquartz project. As for the install locations it was /usr/X11R6 on Tiger (XFree86-based), but is /usr/X11 on Leopard (Xorg-based) though there is a compat symlink from the old location so it should still work.
But yes you are right, wxMac is still the primary platform - no question about that...
afb:
BTW, I will probably continue with the "nightly builds" (usually more like monthly) so any bugfixes made should be available even before the next release is out (next up is 20080310_rev4943). So if you do have some Mac patches for Code::Blocks (or wxWidgets for that matter), do send them in...
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5358
Auria:
--- Quote from: afb on March 12, 2008, 08:30:49 pm --- As for the install locations it was /usr/X11R6 on Tiger (XFree86-based), but is /usr/X11 on Leopard (Xorg-based) though there is a compat symlink from the old location so it should still work.
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Well it should, but in practice we learned that in some cases the symlink is simply not there, no clue why
--- Quote from: afb --- So if you do have some Mac patches for Code::Blocks (or wxWidgets for that matter), do send them in...
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5358
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Well I did send a very humble patch there, though it got no answer. (Maybe it's bad, please just tell me so if it's the case :P )
afb:
--- Quote from: Auria on March 12, 2008, 09:37:41 pm ---Well I did send a very humble patch there, though it got no answer. (Maybe it's bad, please just tell me so if it's the case :P )
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Applied now. (patch #2305, r4945)
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