port install wxwidgets on mnt lion fails

[Wes James]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Mar 22, 2012, at 21:45, Wes James wrote:
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>> I'm trying to install wxwidgets on mtn lion.  It fails
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> Not surprising at all, since we've had problems building wxWidgets since Snow Leopard already:
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> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/20952
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>> with this at
>> the end of the log:
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>> :info:build In file included from ../include/wx/mac/private.h:4,
>> :info:build                  from ../src/common/dynlib.cpp:48:
>> :info:build ../include/wx/mac/carbon/private.h:1459: error: ‘Cursor’
>> does not name a type
>> :info:build ../include/wx/mac/carbon/private.h:1488: error:
>> ‘ClassicCursor’ does not name a type
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> I think these are QuickDraw types; most of QuickDraw was removed in Lion already. (QuickDraw has been deprecated since Tiger.)
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> The developers of wxWidgets need to update their software to be compatible with modern versions of OS X.

What I ended up doing is with a two partition disk (one for snow leo,
one for mtn lion).  I coped the /opt/local from one disk to the other
and using wxwidgets worked fine for what I needed.

Thanks for the reply.

Wes