[Digikam-users] [New]: Build on macosx [was]: New GPS tracker for photographers

[Bro Dudu]

Arnd Baecker wrote:
>>>> ) comes close to digiKam in terms of managing a photo library.
>>>>
>>> I think G. Boiko managed that. He is sometimes in the digikam IRC
>>> (#digikam on irc.freenode.net) you could ask him ...
>>>
>> OK, I just checked: he managed to build the upcoming
>> digikam 0.10. This uses KDE4 and is, however, under heavy development
>> and thus not yet recommended for production use, see
>>   http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/releaseplan
>> Well, Gilles just pointed out that this should exist via fink;
>> and indeed, see
>>    http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/digikam
>>

>Thanks Arnd.

>digiKam exists in fink and I've already installed it, but the availabel
>kipi-plugins don't even include gpssync and digikam does not link
>properly with libkexiv2 and friends, so EXIF/IPTC/Makernote handling is
>not very good (i.e. does not work). I can't give any more details as I'm
>upgrading os X to leopard and got rid of everything-fink to get more
>disk space.

>That's why I was trying to compile it manually against all its
>dependencies and the dependencies of the dependencies...


if you feel brave you can have a look at (I had the same kind of problems):

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Digikam+Compilation+on+MacOSX

I believe -hope- , you can do it with the new svn version.


Good luck!


Best,


BroDudu