[pygtk] Problem compiling gobject-introspection on Snow Leopard

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:31, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
> 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:

Hi,

gir-repository is deprecated and shouldn't be used any more.

About Gtk-2.22, I recommend you to try with 3.0, which is were most
efforts are going right now to make it work with g-i.

Regards,

Tomeu

> /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
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