I tried to download "Sources". 136MB??

-Andrei


On Jun 23, 2006, at 4:38 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote:

>  Perusing the list the last few weeks makes it pretty obvious that  
>  I've been
>  trying to hammer out a workable, easily-installed, Mac-OSX PHP-GTK
>  environment to support the PHP-GTK app being sold by our growing  
>  company.
> 
>  And I'm pleased to announce that it's now officially released!
> 
>  I ran into many issues, such as:
>  1) php-templates could not be loaded as a module into either A) PHP  
>  binary
>  shipped with OSX, or B) PHP binary shipped with fink. To get around  
>  this, I
>  had to build this into PHP.
>  2) Macintosh autoconf is broken, and can't be used to build a php  
>  extension
>  into PHP, so finishing #1 proved to be more work than expected.
>  3) GTK/GLIB 1.x needs to be patched to compile usefully on OSX.
>  4) Never could get GtkScintilla to work - ended up wrapping GtkText  
>  with a
>  Scintilla emulator class, with connect signals and methods that  
>  emulated
>  GtkScintilla's so my application works with either one.  (If you  
>  need this,
>  feel free to ask)
> 
>  I have all this work put together into a buildit script, complete with
>  everything needed to run an installer on Mac OSX 10.4. It should be  
>  pretty
>  much "plug and play" for 10.4 Tiger. You can get it here:
>  http://chico.benjamindsmith.com/phpgtk_osx/
> 
>  Look for notes therein (README, issues) and look thru the doit.sh  
>  script if
>  you're curious. To minimize dependencies, everything compiles to  
>  its own
>  directory ("/opt/SchoolPathways").
> 
>  I used Platypus to make a "double-click and run" icon that fits  
>  well with OSX,
>  and FileStorm to create the installer package. (look in the ".../src"
>  directory in my most recent package)
> 
>  The end result is... basically perfect! The program looks like an  
>  OSX program,
>  complete with the Aqua/Quartz buttons on the top left, it looks,  
>  acts, and
>  feels native. I had no issues getting the shell "open" command to  
>  open PDF
>  files and websites, so the functionality was clean. (I wish I could  
>  say that
>  about the Windows release!)
> 
>  I hope this helps - you are certainly free to use my modified,  
>  compile sources
>  in whatever projects you may desire.
> 
>  -Ben
>  -- 
>  "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
>  - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978
> 
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