Re: mac osx

On 22 April 2012 21:29, Nathan Gass <xabbu <at> trizeps.ch> wrote:
> Hello List
>
> Quite new to luakit but hoping to use it a lot in the near future.
>
> To build luakit on Mac OSX (Lion + XCode4) I had to do the following changes (in https://github.com/xabbu42/luakit/tree/macosx):
>
> 1. Add a implementation of clock_gettime
> 2. Remove --export-dynamic from LDFLAGS
>
> In both cases the actual patch is probably not the right thing. If microsecond precision is enough, the
simplest solution to clock_gettime would be to just use the more portable gettimeofday. Anyway, the
current solution is from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5167269/clock-gettime-alternative-in-mac-os-x and
probably quite a bit slower.
>
> The LDFLAGS patch does no longer respect the LDFLAGS set in the environment, which imho is wrong.
>
> Appreciate any input and can make pull request as soon as this is mergable.
>
> Greetings
> Nathan Gass

Hey Nathan,

The commit (f3a2dbe) which added the --export-dynamic linker option
mentions that luakit crashes when trying to load shared lua libraries
(I.e. lfs.so) on some systems. Are you able to determine if this is a
problem on OSX? It doesn't appear to be a problem on my system anymore
(I did author the patch a year ago, hard to remember exactly what was