[GEM-dev] Gem for Pd-extended

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

james tittle wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:22 AM, hans at eds.org wrote:
>> On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:20 AM, chris clepper wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/27/06, hans at eds.org <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does ./configure work on all platforms?
>>>
>>> From my experience it only works on Linux.
>>
>> Wasn't there some talk to making ./configure work on Mac OS X?
> 
> ...it used to work, but then I switched back to using xcode...however, 
> some time ago, I did say I'd get it running again, so I guess I should 
> work on that :-\
> 
> ...my question would be:  how am I supposed to deal with the freetype 
> and FTGL dependencies?  FTGL is no longer in development, so maybe we do 
> need to put it in cvs/GemLibs?  I've generally used a non-standard 

i would rather say, FTGL does what it should do and is therefore "done".
imo, the best thing would be, if the autocompiling machine (no matter 
whether it is linux, osx or w32) has FTGL and freetype installed as 
prerequisites.

> development environment, where freetype isn't installed in /usr/local or 
> wherever, but instead I use a ~/dev/libs folder for all my self-compiled 
> libs...this is mainly because it allows me more control over whether 
> they are dylibs (and what the install_name is) or statics...

which in theory could be handled via proper -I/-L flags to the 
compiler/linker.

mfga.sdr.
IOhannes