[Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk on OS X with native GTK

[Eli Green]

That was not as difficult as I had imagined.

1. install gtk-osx from http://www.gtk-osx.org/
2. install gawk from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/ - make sure the  
$BINDIR is in your PATH
3. Build and install pkg-config-0.23.tar from http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/ 
 - again, put $BINDIR in your PATH
  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Cairo.framework/ 
Resources/dev/lib/pkgconfig:/Library/Frameworks/Gtk.framework/ 
Resources/dev/lib/pkgconfig:/Library/Frameworks/GLib.framework/ 
Resources/dev/lib/pkgconfig

4. build GNU Smalltalk:
  MAKE=gnumake CFLAGS='-m32' LDFLAGS='-arch i386' ./configure -- 
prefix=/usr/local/gst --enable-gtk=yes
  gnumake
  sudo gnumake install

Running gst-browser: http://gallery.me.com/eli.green#100171

It is not what I would call stable or even usable; a few windows that  
don't draw themselves, a lot of spinning beach balls (the "Window is  
not responding to events" indicator in OS  X). From what I can see,  
VisualGST is written directly against the Gtk libraries so it's not  
like somebody could simply implement a Cocoa version of Blox or  
equivalent. Has any thought been given to placing an abstraction  
library between GST and the native platform libraries or is GTK going  
to be the solution going forward?

Note that this is running under Quartz, the native OS X display  
server, but does not use the native theme. There is a Gtk engine which  
does so but I haven't tried to compile it yet.