update

[Dirk Hohndel]

Oh, I forgot to mention that for those who like to look at stuff like this,
my WIP HACK is at

git://git.hohndel.org/subsurface glib-removal-hack

/D

On Oct 5, 2013, at 12:38 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> 
> I hope that Thiago and the folks affected will figure out the build issues. 
> This is one of the areas I find frustrating with the Qt move. It's even worse on the Mac. 
> Unless one uses MacPorts (which I am trying to avoid as its dependencies are brutal
> and a Subsurface/Qt build against the MacPorts versions currently weighs in at 1.1GB),
> there are tons of compile problems  even with libmarble and other tools that use cmake. 
> 
> I ended up creating tons of weird links for include directories and libraries (and had
> to copy the libmarble include files around)… there is NO WAY this is how things are
> supposed to work.
> 
> I needed things like
> 
> /opt/local/include/QtCore -> /Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Headers
> /opt/local/include/QtNetwork -> /Library/Frameworks/QtNetwork.framework/Headers
> 
> etc.
> 
> Thiago, what am I doing wrong?
> 
> 
> One reason I started from scratch on a freshly installed Mac is to try and get rid of ALL
> of the glib dependencies. Which means the glib helper functions and gettext() will have
> to go as well. I know this is a change of direction from what I said earlier that we'd do,
> but the more I look at it, using gettext() in a Qt application is causing more pain than 
> it is worth. But on the flip side, removing it means undoing the changes that we did
> to enable it to begin with. And means to figure out how to translate the strings in the C
> code.
> 
> Help from the Qt experts would be very welcome.
> 
> In the end the goal is to reduce the dependencies for Subsurface and make it
> easier to create an installable bundle for it.
> 
> At this point this is mostly a four hour hack-and-whack session where I tried to
> replace the things that are easy to replace, commented out the things that might
> be hard and left many FIXMEs all over the place.
> 
> I have a working Subsurface build on this Mac which only loads the following 
> non-standard libraries
> 
> dyld: loaded: /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/bearer/libqcorewlanbearer.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/bearer/libqgenericbearer.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/imageformats/libqgif.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/imageformats/libqico.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/imageformats/libqjpeg.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/imageformats/libqmng.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/imageformats/libqsvg.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/imageformats/libqtga.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /Developer/Applications/Qt/plugins/imageformats/libqtiff.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/QtCore
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtDBus.framework/Versions/4/QtDBus
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtDeclarative.framework/Versions/4/QtDeclarative
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/4/QtGui
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/4/QtNetwork
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtScript.framework/Versions/4/QtScript
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtSql.framework/Versions/4/QtSql
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtSvg.framework/Versions/4/QtSvg
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtWebKit.framework/Versions/4/QtWebKit
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtXml.framework/Versions/4/QtXml
> dyld: loaded: /Library/Frameworks/QtXmlPatterns.framework/Versions/4/QtXmlPatterns
> dyld: loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /opt/local/lib/liblzma.5.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /opt/local/lib/libmarblewidget.17.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /opt/local/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /opt/local/lib/libusb-1.0.0.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /opt/local/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /opt/local/lib/libxslt.1.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /opt/local/lib/libz.1.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /opt/local/lib/libzip.2.dylib
> dyld: loaded: /usr/local/lib/libdivecomputer.0.dylib
> 
> I find that rather encouraging :-)
> 
> I completely broke localization, I disabled checking if GPS coordinates have
> changed, and I'm sure there are other areas that don't quite work anymore,
> but it seems to be a first step in the right direction.
> 
> /D
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