Good day all,

I've installed Gtk+ and GtkD on my MacBookPro which is running macOS Mojave but am having some issues linking to and using it. Any assistance to resolve this is appreciated.

Steps taken:

1. Install Gtk+

      brew install gtk+

2. Build and install GtkD-3.8.5

     unzip GtkD-3.8.5.zip
     copy gtkd folder to dmd/osx/src/
     make
     copy libgtkd-3.a to dmd/osx/lib/

3. Update dmd.conf

     add -I%@P%/../../src/gtkd to DFLAGS

Problems encountered:

1. Unable to find the lib

(dmd-2.085.0)BMP:model edwarac$ dmd -de -w -Llibgtkd-3.a nufsaid
ld: file not found: libgtkd-3.a
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
Error: linker exited with status 1

Not sure why I'm receiving this first error since the file is stored alongside the libphobos2.a which the linker doesn't have any issues locating. If copy the file to the local directory, linking completes without any further errors.

2. Unable to find libgtkd-3.dylib

     (dmd-2.085.0)Andrews-MBP:model edwarac$ ./nufsaid
     object.Exception@generated/gtkd/gtkd/Loader.d(125): Library load failed (libgdk-3.0.dylib): dlopen(libgdk-3.0.dylib, 258): image not found

Not sure what's going on here at all. This file was not created when I built GtkD. Where do I find it, or how do I create it?

--Andrew

On Wednesday, 27 March 2019 at 06:55:53 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> Good day all,
>
> I've installed Gtk+ and GtkD on my MacBookPro which is running macOS Mojave but am having some issues linking to and using it. Any assistance to resolve this is appreciated.
>
> Steps taken:
>
> 1. Install Gtk+
>
>       brew install gtk+
>
> 2. Build and install GtkD-3.8.5
>
>      unzip GtkD-3.8.5.zip
>      copy gtkd folder to dmd/osx/src/
>      make
>      copy libgtkd-3.a to dmd/osx/lib/
>
> 3. Update dmd.conf
>
>      add -I%@P%/../../src/gtkd to DFLAGS
>
> Problems encountered:
>
> 1. Unable to find the lib
>
> (dmd-2.085.0)BMP:model edwarac$ dmd -de -w -Llibgtkd-3.a nufsaid
> ld: file not found: libgtkd-3.a
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
> Error: linker exited with status 1
>
> Not sure why I'm receiving this first error since the file is stored alongside the libphobos2.a which the linker doesn't have any issues locating. If copy the file to the local directory, linking completes without any further errors.
>
> 2. Unable to find libgtkd-3.dylib
>
>      (dmd-2.085.0)Andrews-MBP:model edwarac$ ./nufsaid
>      object.Exception@generated/gtkd/gtkd/Loader.d(125): Library load failed (libgdk-3.0.dylib): dlopen(libgdk-3.0.dylib, 258): image not found
>
> Not sure what's going on here at all. This file was not created when I built GtkD. Where do I find it, or how do I create it?
>
> --Andrew

> dmd -de -w -Llibgtkd-3.a nufsaid

try
dmd -de -w -lgtkd-3 nufsaid
or
dmd -de -w -L/path/to/lib nufsaid

> dlopen(libgdk-3.0.dylib, 258): image not found

it that a typo? gdk not gtk?

Regardless gtkD is bindings to gtk which are separate, make sure you have gtk installed and in your path.

On Wednesday, 27 March 2019 at 09:07:37 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 March 2019 at 06:55:53 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
>
>> dmd -de -w -Llibgtkd-3.a nufsaid
>
> try
> dmd -de -w -lgtkd-3 nufsaid

No. That did not work.

> dmd -de -w -L/path/to/lib nufsaid

This would is already included in dlang.conf no? Yes furnishing an explicit path works.
dmd -de -w -L/Users/edwarac/dlang/dmd-2.085.0/osx/lib/libgtkd-3.a nufsaid

But why do I need to do that if it's sitting right next to phobos and DMD is already searching that directory for libraries?

>> dlopen(libgdk-3.0.dylib, 258): image not found
>
> it that a typo? gdk not gtk?

No. This i correct.

> Regardless gtkD is bindings to gtk which are separate, make sure you have gtk installed and in your path.

gtk was the first think I installed, no issues there. I have found a solution to this. brew install gdk+3 does the trick.

Thank you.

On 27-03-2019 11:01, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> This would is already included in dlang.conf no? Yes furnishing an explicit path works.
> dmd -de -w -L/Users/edwarac/dlang/dmd-2.085.0/osx/lib/libgtkd-3.a nufsaid
> 
> But why do I need to do that if it's sitting right next to phobos and DMD is already searching that directory for libraries?


That because of the way the dmd and the linker interpret the arguments.

-L tell dmd to pass the command that follows to the linker.
To tell the linker to link with a library in a known location you would use the -l flag.

For the value passed to -l the linker will prefix `lib` and postfix `.so` `.a`.

So the following should work properly:
`dmd -de -w -L-lgtkd-3 nufsaid'

-- 
Mike Wey

On Wednesday, 27 March 2019 at 19:18:17 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
>
> That because of the way the dmd and the linker interpret the arguments.
>
> -L tell dmd to pass the command that follows to the linker.
> To tell the linker to link with a library in a known location you would use the -l flag.
>
> For the value passed to -l the linker will prefix `lib` and postfix `.so` `.a`.
>
> So the following should work properly:
> `dmd -de -w -L-lgtkd-3 nufsaid'

Thank you very much Mike. Works like a charm. Also found out that pragma(lib, "gtlkd-3") does the trick as well.

--Andrew