Building on OSX/Command Line Tool

I've got an ambitious goal. I put together a little workspace script in VisualWorks. It takes two input parameters, and spits stuff out on stdout.

I'd like to realize it as a command line program, but using GST. I'm running on OSX (Lion). I have a colleague who's running on OSX (Snow Leopard). I'd like to be able to put it together on my mac. And then share it with him, hoping I can just Skype him a couple of files.

I'd love to show that I could do this in one day, I'm skeptical, but prepared to be wowed. Am I dreaming too big?

I don't need/want to do any of the VisualGST stuff right now. Macports isn't an option for me.

My first issue, is that I git cloned the latest sources (as per http://smalltalk.gnu.org/download/cvs) and now want to follow the OSX build directions located at (http://smalltalk.gnu.org/wiki/building-gst-guides). Problem is, I don't have a 'configure' script in the checked out repository.

TIA! I'm on the irc channel today as well.

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Travis Griggs
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On 02/08/2011 19:30, Travis Griggs wrote: Hi,

I've installed gst with homebrew (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew) and
it works well.

Gwen

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On 08/02/2011 07:30 PM, Travis Griggs wrote:
> I've got an ambitious goal. I put together a little workspace script
> in VisualWorks. It takes two input parameters, and spits stuff out on
> stdout.

That's very similar (though simpler) to what gst-remote does.

> I'd like to realize it as a command line program, but using GST. I'm
> running on OSX (Lion). I have a colleague who's running on OSX (Snow
> Leopard).

The program should be completely portable.

> I'd like to be able to put it together on my mac. And then
> share it with him, hoping I can just Skype him a couple of files.

Why can't you email them instead of using proprietary software (and
worse protocols)? ;)

> I'd love to show that I could do this in one day, I'm skeptical, but
> prepared to be wowed. Am I dreaming too big?

I don't think compiling should be included in the time.  Otherwise, I'm
sure it's doable in five minutes by someone with your experience.

> My first issue, is that I git cloned the latest sources (as per
> http://smalltalk.gnu.org/download/cvs) and now want to follow the OSX
> build directions located at
> (http://smalltalk.gnu.org/wiki/building-gst-guides). Problem is, I
> don't have a 'configure' script in the checked out repository.

The guide is missing "autoreconf -vi" which is instead present in the
"official" page at http://smalltalk.gnu.org/download/cvs.

If you do not want any goodies (cairo, SDL, whatever) that's fine.
Otherwise building gst is not too easy, just like I'm sure VisualWorks
isn't. :)

Paolo

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On 08/02/2011 08:38 PM, Travis Griggs wrote:
So I've the master version of GST compiled with homebrew, I could
make a tarball of the binary so you could test ? I've done the same
for the windows binaries.

I don't know it the binaries are going to work with you, but it's worth
to try.

Gwen

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On 08/04/2011 04:04 PM, Gwenael Casaccio wrote:
> But the bigger issue for me is this. Does this mean that get a simple
> executable where it's relatively self contained and small and can be
> passed to my buddy is a pipe dream? Will he too have to dl and install a
> bunch of stuff to make gst work on this box?

Likely, but it would be no different if you were trying to self-compile
python or ruby.

Paolo

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