Re: New package: fltk

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>]

a.rburgers@quicknet.nl wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to propose a new package, fltk-1.1.4.
> The fltk homepage is at http://www.fltk.org/
>
> These are the URL's of binary and source tarballs:
>
> http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ar.burgers/fltk-1.1.4-1.tar.bz2
> http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ar.burgers/fltk-1.1.4-1-src.tar.bz2
>
> Fltk built out of the box on cygwin, but is not completely autotooled.
> In order to package it a slightly modified generic-build-script.sh has
> been used.
>
> This is the setup.hint from the package:
>
> category: Devel
> requires: cygwin zlib libjpeg62 libpng10
> sdesc:    "Cross platform C++ GUI toolkit"
> ldesc:    "FLTK is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIXR/LinuxR
> (X11),
> MicrosoftR WindowsR, and MacOSR X. FLTK provides modern GUI
> functionality and
> supports 3D graphics via OpenGLR and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK
> also
> includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create
> applications in minutes."

IIRC, OOTB fltk is heavily dependant on mingw/w32api stuff, doesn't 
target Cygwin/XFree86, and will build only static archives.  Therefore, 
it really doesn't belong in the /usr tree.  I don't know if anyone is 
planning to port fltk to Cygwin/XFree86, but as a means of preventing 
future conflicts, I'd recommend following a layout something along the 
lines of http://www.cygwin.com/packages/xpm-nox/xpm-nox-4.2.0-4. 
Perhaps tacking a "w32" or "nox" suffix to the executables might be 
advisable as well.

Cheers,
Nicholas

P.S. - It is possible, albiet a major PITA, to build a static version 
against XFree86, but the shared version will not be possible until that 
nasty shared libXt problem is resolved.