GTK on OSX

I finally got tired of the default gtk theme on my macbook, so I decided to do something about it.  I've been using gtk2 no_x11 variant provided by macports, but unfortunately all the theme engines on macports require X11.  I tried the GtkQuartzEngine, and it seems to work perfectly with a little tweaking.

1.  Check out git://github.com/jralls/gtk-quartz-engine.git
2.  Cd into the gtk-quartz-engine repo and run aclocal && autoreconf -vi && autoconf (I used the macports versions)
3. ./configure --prefix=/opt/local && make && make install
4.  Copy the sample gtkrc file to ~/.gtkrc-2.0.

And it all just worked.  It looks decent, albeit slightly buggy.  It's necessary to set the prefix to /opt/local so the engine is installed into the same location as the macports gtk libs.

This seems like a relatively simple candidate for adding to macports.

installing gtkglext Haskell bindings with gtk-osx

I just managed to install the Haskell bindings to gtkglext with the quartz-based gtk-osx, and I want to record the necessary steps so I don't forget. This assumes you have a working ghc (ghc-7), gtk-osx, and XCode. As a quick overview, I needed to do the following:

1. install gtkglext (c library)
2. install gtk (Haskell package)
3. install gtkglext (Haskell package)

1. Install gtkglext (c)

I downloaded the "Quartz hack full patched source" and followed the instructions at http://answerpot.com/showthread.php?324502-GtkGLExt+OS+X+Quartz+hack+patch. There are a few problems:
The file "docs/reference/gtkglext/html/index.sgml" doesn't exist.
The headers aren't installed.
Several references are made to undefined constants. Unfortunately this error doesn't show up until much later, when GHC tries to link every symbol under the sun.

jhbuild shell
tar -xf gtkglext-1.2.0.osx-hack.tar
cd gtkglext-1.2.0
patch -p1 < gtkglext_c.patch
./configure && make
touch docs/reference/gtkglext/html/index.sgml
sudo make install

2. Install gtk (Haskell)

The Haskell package "gtk" currently (as of gtk-0.12.0) doesn't build with a quartz-based gtk+. I downloaded the source ("cabal unpack") and edited the file "Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/Structs.hsc" to disable the drawableGetID function.

jhbuild shell
cabal unpack gtk
cd gtk
patch -p1 < gtk.patch
cabal install

If you installed the gtkglext libraries to a standard folder this should be all that's necessary. If cabal can't find gdkglext-quartz or gtkglext-quartz, you'll need to add the library paths at this stage.

3. Install gtkglext (Haskell package)

This was painful.

There are a few different problems to deal with:
1. The gtkglext install didn't install the headers, so we need to specify them manually.
2. We're not using pkg-config, so we edit the gtkglext.cabal file, remove the pkg-config check, and specify the libraries to link to.
3. Several symbols are undefined in gtkglext, so we need to remove references to them from the Haskell source. The undefined symbols are:

• gdk_gl_config_get_screen
• gdk_gl_config_get_depth
• gdk_gl_context_get_gl_config
• gdk_gl_context_get_share_list
• gdk_gl_context_is_direct
• gdk_gl_context_get_render_type

AFAICT these were never defined in gtkglext, although they're listed in the headers.

There's also another argument to glWindowNew, which we need to add.

Finally, the demo program needs to be patched, otherwise it just sits there and doesn't update.

So execute the following, replacing PATH_TO_GTKGLEXT with wherever you unpacked/built gtkglext:

jhbuild shell
cabal unpack gtkglext
cd gtkglext-0.12.0
patch -p1 < gtkglext.patch
cabal install --extra-include-dir="PATH_TO_GTKGLEXT" --extra-include-dir="PATH_TO_GTKGLEXT/gdk" --extra-include-dir="$PREFIX/include/cairo/" --extra-include-dir="$PREFIX/include/glib-2.0/" --extra-include-dir="$PREFIX/lib/glib-2.0/include/" --extra-include-dir="$PREFIX/include/gtk-2.0/" --extra-include-dir="$PREFIX/include/pango-1.0/" --extra-include-dir="$PREFIX/include/atk-1.0/" --extra-include-dir="$PREFIX/lib/gtk-2.0/include/"
cd demo
make
./RotatingCube

And you should get a new window with a colorful cube, spinning in full OpenGL glory.

I don't know why it's necessary to specify all the gtk+ header locations manually here, when they're automatically found for building gtk.

The patch files can be downloaded from here.