[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Compiling liblouis on MacOS X
- From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:08:23 +0100
Hi David and thanks,
I have a Homebrew formula already, been wanting to mention that. I've had
it lying around for a while (the formula is for version 2.5.2), but I only
pushed it to a git repo this morning. See
https://github.com/liblouis/homebrew-liblouis.
Your formula has a few more "depends_on", I'll make sure I incorporate
those.
I don't know about contributing upstream as they are not so keen on
including niche stuff. We can always try. But the "brew tap" mechanism is
also very elegant I think.
I also have a formula for liblouisutdml by the way, but I haven't pushed it.
Bert
2015-03-27 19:28 GMT+01:00 David Sweetman <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> It sounds like what you’re really after is a good and maintained Homebrew
> formula.
>
> Building from source takes a lot of investigation and trial/error. This
> issue isn’t unique to liblouis — building from source is complex.
>
> I’ve never created a Homebrew formula before, but it only took about an
> hour to whip one up for liblouis. Caveat that there might be some gotchas
> I’m not aware of. The reason this is a better solution is that homebrew
> still installs from source, but manages the dependencies for you and once
> the Formula documents the dependencies, it *should* just work for almost
> everybody else, without requiring each person to go through the try > break
> > fix > try loop.
>
> The formula works on my machine, let me know if works for you:
>
> brew install
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sweetmandm/ed19af1b2672ba603d82/raw/fb13426ffd2ccb5d1139244b44e842a5d184c63b/liblouis.rb
>
> If this works I can contribute it upstream to homebrew. The formula is
> just a ruby script so it should be easy to maintain.
>
> Also I looked into liblouisutdml but the behavior wasn’t straightforward
> if the user doesn’t have java installed. It breaks on ‘jni.h’ even if you
> specify --disable-java-bindings to configure, so that requires more
> research.
>
> Is anybody aware of a way to compile liblouisutdml without requiring
> jni.h? If not I’d have to add that check to the formula and document
> exactly how to install java.
>
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