Unable to compile inkscape on Mac OS X Sierra using getting started

[Jean-François Labonté]

Hey guys,

I would like to be able to contribute to the project with my Macbook, but I am not able to compile from the trunk branch.

I went through the getting started page : https://inkscape.org/en/develop/getting-started/#building-inkscape-mac

When I try to compile the software, I am getting this error :

 fatal error:
      'gdkmm/seat.h' file not found
# include <gdkmm/seat.h>

As if I were missing some dependencies.

Thank you for your help.

[Jean-François Labonté (grimsleepless)]

It seems that MacPort dependencies are out of date, so the way that I achieved to compile the code from the repository was to used brew install dependencies.

I tried to install inkscape first with the brew repo. link to details below :

https://github.com/caskformula/homebrew-caskformula/blob/master/Formula/inkscape.rb

I executed the following command, brew install inkscape --HEAD, which installed some of the dependencies, mostly gtk2 dependencies, afterward I installed gtkmm3, gdl, and gtkmm manually. Then I was able to compile the project from the bazaar repository.

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

Hi, this bug tracker is being decommissioned so this bug will be closed. The documentation for this will be updates as part of major changes to the macOS app in Inkscape 1.0. If you have any other bugs please check the following page: https://inkscape.org/report. Thank you!

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/Qantas94Heavy

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

Please follow this link for further updates on an improved build system for macOS: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/183

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/183