shoes/shoes — Issue #159: Macports build instructions out of date
Author: atownley
Created: 2011-11-11 17:53:21+00:00
State: open

I'm trying to build Shoes (today's clone) on 10.6 since the latest available binary displays boxes instead of characters for para entries. However, I'm using macports for many other things on my machine and the changes required to build for macports on the install in https://github.com/shoes/shoes/wiki/Building-Shoes-on-Mac-OS-X-10.6-and-10.7 don't seem to actually work.

Is there a way to make the rakefile work with either macports or homebrew by default? Seems like the changes required for the pango modules have been invalidated by the changes to the way the modules are determined in the current Rakefile. Poking around, there also seems to be a large number of brew-related stuff in the Rakefile that would need to be altered.

Any ideas on the best way to proceed here? Trying to evaluate whether Shoes is the right solution for a simple cross-platfom UI tool, but can't work if I can't display the standard para fonts! ;)

Thanks in advance,

ast