In the end, I build GIMP successfully with native gtk-osx and jhbuild. As a reference to those who might want to build GIMP on Mac, I wrote down my experience at https://sites.google.com/site/httimchen/2011_imagesvn/build-gimp-on-mac thanks for the help, -Tim On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:40 AM, Tim Chen wrote: > woop, sorry for the short reply in last mail. > > Yes, I did install python gtk via MacPorts. > > It is actually kind of easy right now, just use port install py-gtk2, > then all set :D > > As to recompiling gtk2, it seems like that the quartz variant on > MacPorts introduces less problems. > > thanks for your reply, > -Tim > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Tim Chen <ht.timchen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Yes, >> >> On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Akkana Peck wrote: >> >> Tim Chen writes: >> >> Note that one has to install gtk2 using command below to avoid some weird >> dependency problems >> >> Most Linux people have to recompile gtk2 (and its dependencies) to >> build GIMP now too. >> >> ImportError: could not import pygtk >> >> Did you build python-gtk? It's a separate package, with its own >> dependency set. >> >> Last time I watched someone try to build python-gtk from Macports, >> it turned out to be a lot easier just to download the tarballs and >> build and install them by hand. Macports wanted to bring in all >> kinds of crazy dependencies, including recompiling X and three >> different versions of Perl, all of them built from source. But >> maybe they've fixed the dependencies since then. >> >> ...Akkana >> _______________________________________________ >> Gimp-developer mailing list >> Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >> >> _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
