[swfmill] Building swfmill from Head on OSX

[Ralf Fuest]

Thanks for your nice tutorial. I hope it will help other OS X users to
finally get a current version of swfmill.

Ralf

> this set of instructions is for building a version of swfmill for 
> running on your OSX system. this builds a non static version of swfmill 
> wich is not suitable for a release because it depends on external 
> libraries. These instructions assume familiarity with using the command 
> line.
> 
> Ready? Lets go...
> 
> first get the latest swfmill code from svn trunk, 
> http://swfmill.org/svn/trunk, if you don't know how to use svn google 
> for help.
> $ svn co http://swfmill.org/svn/trunk
> 
> next you will run:
> $ ./autogen.sh
> 
> however there are some things you may need to install first. use 
> MacPorts (macports.org) to install these things if they are not yet 
> installed:
> port install pkgconfig
> port install libxml2
> port install libxslt
> port install freetype
> port install libpng
> 
> also autogen.sh is likely going to throw some errors, these are the 
> common ones and what to do about them:
> 
> 
> ERROR #1
>  > ./configure: line 18836: syntax error near unexpected token `XML,'
>  > ./configure: line 18836: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XML, libxml-2.0)'
> 
> ERROR #1 SOLUTION
> in autogen.sh change the line
> aclocal -I autoconfig/m4
> to this:
> aclocal -I /opt/local/share/aclocal -I /usr/share/aclocal
> 
> That will throw an error. That is ok. Next change that line back to the 
> original and search for a file with the name "pkg.m4" on your harddisk 
> and copy (or link) it into the autoconfig/m4 directory inside the 
> swfmill trunk folder.
> 
> 
> ERROR #2
>  > ./autogen.sh: line 5: libtoolize: command not found
> 
> ERROR #2 SOLUTION
> again in autogen.sh change this line:
> libtoolize --force --copy
> to:
> glibtoolize --force --copy
> 
> 
> ERROR #3
> after changing to glibtoolize you may get another error:
>  > /usr/bin/glibtoolize: line 1: cd: /usr/share/libtool: No such file or 
> directory
>  > glibtoolize: cannot list files in `/usr/share/libtool'
> 
> ERROR #3 SOLUTION
> This is most likely caused when you are running OSX 10.4 and install 
> XCode 2.5. XCode 2.5 destroys the libtool library - seemingly 
> inadvertantly (its recreated on OSX 10.5 Leopard in XCode 3). You can go 
> back and reinstall XCode 2.4.1 from the CDs that shipped with your Mac 
> (PITA), or you can do this easier patch:
> 
> look in /opt/local/share/ and see if there is a libtool in there, if I 
> recall right it is there. if not install it with MacPort
> $ port install libtool
> 
> then go to /usr/share/ and link to libtool
> $ ln -s /opt/local/share/libtool libtool
> 
> 
> ERROR #4
>  > autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.ac
> 
> ERROR #4 SOLUTION
> you can ignore it
> 
> 
> ERROR #5
>  > /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld: can't locate file for: 
> -lcrt0.o
> 
> ERROR #5 SOLUTION
> Remove the lines between "if IS_OSX" and the "endif" in src/Makefile.am
> I preferred to just comment them out.
> 
> 
> Now you can make your installer and run it
> $ ./autogen.sh
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
> 
> 
> Your install may not be complete however, as swfmill may not be in your 
> user path. I don't know how to make sure that is right. However I 
> already had a lower version of swfmill installed. when i ran $ sudo make 
> install, it created a second install in a new location. so I just moved 
> that swfmill to where the old one was located. to do that I did:
> 
> $ locate swfmill
> (this will return the location of your swfmill installs)
> $ mv path/to/new/swfmill /usr/bin/swfmill