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You can now install synfig on your via secondplanet/homebrew like so (at your command prompt):

Code:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSLk https://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"
curl https://gist.github.com/raw/836094/bc55e611d2ddccd33017843a182a3c4401a2cacf/libxml++.rb > /usr/local/Library/Formula/libxml++.rb
/usr/local/bin/brew install libxml++
curl https://gist.github.com/raw/812421/6d26531dcb7ef996edb5138c82181200abfd3f91/etl.rb > /usr/local/Library/Formula/etl.rb
/usr/local/bin/brew install etl
curl https://gist.github.com/raw/836096/26778ca52fc2ed4c8593a8c131f90cc2eae7a344/synfig.rb > /usr/local/Library/Formula/synfig.rb
/usr/local/bin/brew install synfig
curl https://gist.github.com/raw/836137/ac106f3d25270d29386cb8f441f0844945aeff6c/synfigstudio.rb > /usr/local/Library/Formula/synfigstudio.rb
/usr/local/bin/brew install synfigstudio
/usr/local/bin/synfigstudio

I'm working on a simple .app and installer coming up... For build instructions in detail, see the Mac OS X wiki page.

Hi secondplanet!!
This is absolutely awesome!
We would be very very happy if install Synfig Studio at a Mac becomes so easy! This will be a news entry on the website for sure!

Please let us know when you have all the process finished and tested to make an announcement on the forums and website.

To all other mac users: please report here whether you have success or not with this new procedure.

Thanks!
-G

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I'm guessing most people will catch it if it is a typo, but "/usr/loacl/bin/brew" doesn't look right... You might want to edit that for cut & pasters.

Chris

Hi secondplanet, you are a hero! Finally I can use synfig again, thanks!!

I will try this "Homebrew" install and report back

cheers!

Hi secondplanet. I'm going to try it on my macBook ASAP. I will report you if I have success.

Congratulations and thanks a lot.

I am having troubles with the gtkmm install, this is the error report
/bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/glib-mkenums: /opt/local/bin/perl5: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
this /opt/local directory I don't have, I only have x11 inside /opt, I guess it's from my old macport installation

Wow! Thanks everyone. If you would like to see a screenshot here it is: http://synfig.org/wiki/File:Synfig_mac_X11.png
I will edit that typo. I will also create a small webpage with more info and a complete installer once I figure out all the dependencies in jhbuild. (Homebrew can make standalones, but these only run in X11) I have also submitted the homebrew formulae too be part of the main homebrew package so the installation will not require cloning mine.

ulrik: Homebrew only works when all traces are removed of MacPorts.
anyone: if homebrew did not install correctly; see the docs: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki
Hopefully the standalone installer will not require all this; but for those who want it right away or want the latest from the git repo, homebrew is the way to go.

There is one thing I forgot to ask: do I have permission to use the icon?

You can use the icon (Synfig Logo) under the same license it has been released (GPL 2.0 or above).
-G

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Hooray! This is now a part of the main Homebrew, so curling my parts is not necessary. This means (assuming the homebrew executable install location is in your PATH) Synfig is installable on a Mac like so:



The synfigstudio package is called `synfigstudio` and is the only part remaining to be pulled into the main Git repository. Because Homebrew is better than Fink in many ways, the Fink package links can be changed to the Homebrew ones as soon as synfigstudio is pulled. The Homebrew formula is also up to date and installs flawlessly. Although Homebrew can only run graphical interfaces in X11 at the moment, it can be made into a .app bundle I think. However, an X11 bundle would not be ideal as it does not integrate well. As I saw someone say on http://nextsprocket.com/tasks/native-no ... r-homebrew I think the XML format that jhbuild uses may be translatable into Homebrew stuff; most of the bundlers etc are built w/ autotools or cmake, from tarballs or git repos. So, hopefully, jhbuild can be eliminated from the build process and Homebrew can be used for everything. This will make the build process a whole lot simpler.

Good work, secondplanet! Waiting for the moment when synfigstudio package will be pulled into the main Git repository and then I'll update download page on the main website.

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I'm nearly done working out all the dependencies and resources. I have created new Mac OS X icon files; in the recent versions of OS X 512x512 images are used in the .icns files.
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The icon looks great on the Dock! (It's just a dummy linked to a text file; it's not part of the application bundle yet. Also, you can take a look at the small Git repository I created here: https://github.com/secondplanet/synfig-osx Jhbuild is really a pain to work with, and it conflicts with my four Homebrew installations, which just becomes even more problematic. Now I have 3 synfigstudio's, only two (both built with homebrew) are working. Although other Mac porters have had success, I doubt there will be the same success with jhbuild and synfig. However, like I said before, gtk-osx is, in theory, usable with Homebrew so that X11 isn't required. This looks really promising; someone built native Mac Gimp using Homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues ... issue/1442

I've figured out how to bundle a .app wrapper with Homebrew and X11, so I'll be releasing a full installer later with the GTK Leopard theme used in GIMP for OSX later this week, using the .mpkg usage rules that Apple recommends. I'll commit those in the repository (https://github.com/secondplanet/synfig-osx) ASAP. I'm very excited to have this working soon; I haven't been able to use Synfig myself yet! If anyone notices any bugs when building, please add an issue to the tracker on the github repository or submit a patch for Mac-compatibility enhancement. I will attempt to create a native, non-X11 version later with Homebrew GTK and ige-mac-integration, but that might take some more time and seems to be rather confusing. However, someone seems to have done this with Gedit, which might be useful to take a look at.

This is a great news! Keep up the good work! ^__^

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