[pygtk] Problem compiling gobject-introspection on Snow Leopard

[Greg Ewing]

Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> I think you are finding this bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631507
> 
> Have added some comments that should help if someone is willing to
> look at this issue.

Thanks.

It seems to be a non-fatal error, so I decided to press on
and see what would happen. I managed to get what appears to
be a working gi module, however I can't import
gi.repository.Gtk because there is no .gir file installed
for Gtk.

After some hunting around I found the gir-repository package,
which looks like it should help, so I tried to compile and
install it. However, it fails trying to generate .gir files
for Gtk-2.22:

/usr/local/bin/g-ir-scanner -v --namespace Gdk --nsversion=2.0 \
	    --add-include-path=. --add-include-path=. \
              --include=Gio-2.0 \
              --include=cairo-1.0 \
              --include=Pango-1.0 \
	     --include=xlib-2.0 \
              --include=GdkPixbuf-2.0 \
	     --library=gdk-x11-2.0 \
	     --library=libgirepo-Gdk-custom.la \
	     --libtool="/bin/sh ../libtool" \
              --output Gdk-2.0.gir \
              --pkg gobject-2.0 \
              --pkg gio-2.0 \
              --pkg cairo \
              --pkg atk \
              --pkg pango \
              --pkg gdk-x11-2.0 \
              -DGDK_COMPILATION \
	     ./Gdk-custom.c ./Gdk-custom.h \
              `pkg-config --variable=includedir gdk-x11-2.0`/gtk-2.0/gdk/*.h
/usr/include/stdlib.h:272: syntax error, unexpected '^' in 'int atexit_b(void 
(^)(void));' at '^'

[.. several other non-fatal error messsages omitted ...]

Namespace conflict for 'Display'
make[2]: *** [Gdk-2.0.gir] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

This last problem is fatal, so I'm stuck.

I'm wondering whether I should attempt to install Gtk 3. Does
anyone know whether it installs its own .gir files, or is
still dependent on gir-repository?

-- 
Greg