How To Compile Gobby From Source: Mac OS X

Gobby requires many dependencies, this a rough guide on installing all those dependencies to get you up and running with Gobby from source.

Compiling Gobby on Mac OS X (tested on 10.4.1)

Download the sigc++ 2.0 source from http://libsigc.sourceforge.net/

libsigc++:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Set up some path variables etc..

PKG_CONFIG_PATH='/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/'
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH

Download gettext from a gnu mirror ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gnu/pub/gnu/gettext/

gettext:

./configure
make
sudo make install

net6:

./configure
make
chmod 744 install-sh
sudo make install

obby:

./configure
make
chmod 744 install-sh
sudo make install

Download libxml from http://xmlsoft.org/sources/

libxml2:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download glib from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.6/

glib:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download glibmm from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glibmm/2.6/

glibmm:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download libxml++ from http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/

libxml++:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download atk from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.6/

atk:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download pango from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.6/

pango:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download libtiff: tiff:

./configure --disable-cxx
make
sudo make install

Download libjpeg from http://www.ijg.org/files/

jpeg:

./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo make install-lib
ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a

Download gtk+

gtk+:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Download gtkmm from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkmm/2.6/

gtkmm:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Gobby:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Open X11.app and run

/usr/local/bin/gobby