Re: Porting libitl to Mac OS X Darwin

[Thamer Mahmoud <thamer at newkuwait dot org>]

[My apologies for this late sort-of-reply] 

Mohammed Badran writes:
 > assalamu alaykum,
 > 
 > I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to port libitl to the Mac OS X
 > Darwin platform. I don't have much experience building packages from
 > source, but I'm told by those more experienced than I that the libitl
 > Makefile is Linux-centric, which complicates the process, and that,
 > instead, autotools and libtools should be used to completely generate
 > the Makefile.
 > 

I can't really help with the Mac OS X issues, but libtoolizing the ITL
library sounds like a very reasonable suggestion for future ITL
releases... so thanks for bringing it up.

For now, I've just followed a small part of the libtools's
manual[1]. This may have helped in creating a starting point that can
be used for testing the build process with OSX (assuming that only
libtool was missing and you follow the "fink" library guide[2]). I
thought you might want to give it a shot, by following these steps:

Download the ITL-CVS from here (or just CVS update):

http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/itl/itl_cvs_snapshot_20060921170640.tar.gz?tarball=1

Use these build commands:

./autogen.sh libitl-libtool
./configure
make libitl-libtool

If all works out with no errors, you'll have the built library file in
the "./build" directory, and the rest should be relevantly easy to go
through.

Salaam,
Thamer Mahmoud

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Using-libtool

[2] http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/shared.php?phpLang=en