[Users] Building Claws from git source with gtk-2

Jim Pachowski jimmy.patch at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 04:19:36 CET 2022


On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 7:14 PM David Fletcher <David at megapico.co.uk> wrote:

> > Can you provide step-by-step on compiling Claws GTK2 on a Mac please.
>
> At a high level it was as simple as downloading the 3.19.1 sources,
> unzipping them, opening a terminal window, and then I used:
<snip />
> The harder work was getting GTK2 on Mac at all! I used Homebrew (
> https://brew.sh/ ) originally, but that moves on pretty fast and no

Thank you, David, for introducing Homebrew to me. I checked it out and
see the few names you mentioned are supported for my MacOS version!

I shall try to install Claws on my Mac this weekend. If I am
unsuccessful with Homebrew, I shall try to follow the manual steps you
have provided.

This is exciting! Thank you, again.


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