gplugin/gplugin

Add an OSX specific hacking file
feature/osx-fixing
2015-02-09, Gary Kramlich
99906cd2c844
Parents d0794f596936
Children 2754de76cc301dde3157546b
Add an OSX specific hacking file
1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
  • +21 -0
    HACKING.OSX
    • --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    +++ b/HACKING.OSX Mon Feb 09 14:11:18 2015 -0600
    @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
    +There are a few notes about building on OSX.
    +
    +First off, building has *ONLY* been tested against homebrew. If you want to
    +support fink or macports, please let me know and I will merge your pull
    +request.
    +
    +Lua
    +===
    +
    +For the Lua loader to work, you need to install lgi from luarocks either
    +systemwide or to a virtual environment created by LuaDist, vert, or something
    +along those lines.
    +
    +When you're building lgi against homebrew you'll have to set the
    +PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable since homebrew does not install libffi
    +systemwide. This is easily done via:
    +
    + export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
    +
    +and then running "luarocks install lgi"
    +