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+# build notes for compiling mapnik deps statically
+# and "FAT" (aka. universal) in order to allow
+# linking a fully standalone libmapnik.a
+
+PREFIX=`pwd`/osx/sources
+mkdir -p $PREFIX
+export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib
+export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib
+export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig
+export PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH
+export CORE_CFLAGS="-O3 -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk"
+export CORE_CXXFLAGS=$CORE_CFLAGS
+export CORE_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-search_paths_first -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -Wl,-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk"
+export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -arch i386"
+
+
+cd osx
+mkdir -p deps
+cd deps
+
+
+# boost
+wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.47.0/boost_1_47_0.tar.bz2
+tar xjvf boost_1_47_0.tar.bz2
+cd boost_1_47_0
+./bootstrap.sh
+
+# no icu variant
+./bjam --prefix=$PREFIX -j2 -d2 \
+  --with-thread \
+  --with-filesystem \
+  --with-program_options --with-system --with-chrono \
+  --with-regex --disable-icu \
+  toolset=darwin \
+  macosx-version=10.6 \
+  address-model=32_64 \
+  architecture=x86 \
+  link=static \
+  variant=release \
+  stage
+
+./bjam --prefix=$PREFIX -j2 -d2 \
+  --with-thread \
+  --with-filesystem \
+  --with-program_options --with-system --with-chrono \
+  --with-regex --disable-icu \
+  toolset=darwin \
+  macosx-version=10.6 \
+  address-model=32_64 \
+  architecture=x86 \
+  link=static \
+  variant=release \
+  install
+
+cd ../
+
+# universal flags
+export CFLAGS=$CORE_CFLAGS
+export CXXFLAGS=$CORE_CXXFLAGS
+export LDFLAGS=$CORE_LDFLAGS
+
+# sqlite
+wget http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-autoconf-3070701.tar.gz
+tar xvf sqlite-autoconf-3070701.tar.gz
+cd sqlite-autoconf-3070701
+./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+
+# freetype
+wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.4.6.tar.bz2
+tar xvf freetype-2.4.6.tar.bz2
+cd freetype-2.4.6
+./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+# proj4
+wget http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip
+#wget http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.7.0.tar.gz
+#tar xvf proj-4.7.0.tar.gz
+#cd proj-4.7.0
+# we use trunk instead for better threading support
+svn co http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/proj/trunk/proj proj-trunk # at the time pre-release 4.8.0
+cd proj-trunk/nad
+unzip ../../proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip
+cd ../
+./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+# libpng
+wget ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.5.4.tar.gz
+tar xvf libpng-1.5.4.tar.gz
+cd libpng-1.5.4
+./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+# libjpeg
+wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
+tar xvf jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
+cd jpeg-8c
+./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+# libtiff
+wget http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-3.9.5.tar.gz
+tar xvf tiff-3.9.5.tar.gz
+cd tiff-3.9.5
+./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+# gdal 1.8.1
+wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.8.1.tar.gz
+tar xvf gdal-1.8.1.tar.gz
+cd gdal-1.8.1
+./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking \
+--with-libtiff=$PREFIX \
+--with-jpeg=$PREFIX \
+--with-png=$PREFIX \
+--with-static-proj4=$PREFIX \
+--with-sqlite3=no \
+--with-spatialite=no \
+--with-curl=no \
+--with-geos=no \
+--with-pcraster=no \
+--with-cfitsio=no \
+--with-odbc=no \
+--with-libkml=no \
+--with-pcidsk=no \
+--with-jasper=no \
+--with-gif=no \
+--with-pg=no \
+--with-hide-internal-symbols=yes \
+--with-vfk=no \
+--with-grib=no
+
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+
+# cairo and friends
+
+# pkg-config so we get cairo and friends configured correctly
+wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.26.tar.gz
+tar xvf pkg-config-0.26.tar.gz
+cd pkg-config-0.26
+./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=$PREFIX
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+# pixman
+wget http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.22.2.tar.gz
+tar xvf pixman-0.22.2.tar.gz
+cd pixman-0.22.2
+./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=$PREFIX
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+# fontconfig
+wget http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.8.0.tar.gz
+tar xvf fontconfig-2.8.0.tar.gz
+cd fontconfig-2.8.0
+./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=$PREFIX \
+    --with-freetype-config=$PREFIX/bin/freetype-config
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+
+# cairo
+wget http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.10.2.tar.gz
+tar xvf cairo-1.10.2.tar.gz
+cd cairo-1.10.2
+# NOTE: PKG_CONFIG_PATH must be correctly set by this point
+export LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib "$CORE_LDFLAGS
+export CFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include "$CORE_CFLAGS
+export png_CFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include"
+export png_LIBS="-I$PREFIX/lib -lpng"
+./configure \
+  --enable-static --disable-shared \
+  --enable-pdf=yes \
+  --enable-ft=yes \
+  --enable-png=yes \
+  --enable-svg=yes \
+  --enable-ps=yes \
+  --enable-fc=yes \
+  --enable-trace=no \
+  --enable-gtk-doc=no \
+  --enable-qt=no \
+  --enable-quartz=no \
+  --enable-quartz-font=no \
+  --enable-quartz-image=no \
+  --enable-win32=no \
+  --enable-win32-font=no \
+  --enable-skia=no \
+  --enable-os2=no \
+  --enable-beos=no \
+  --enable-drm=no \
+  --enable-drm-xr=no \
+  --enable-gallium=no \
+  --enable-gl=no \
+  --enable-directfb=no \
+  --enable-vg=no \
+  --enable-egl=no \
+  --enable-glx=no \
+  --enable-wgl=no \
+  --enable-test-surfaces=no \
+  --enable-tee=no \
+  --enable-xml=no \
+  --enable-interpreter=no \
+  --disable-valgrind \
+  --enable-gobject=no \
+  --enable-static=no \
+  --enable-xlib=no \
+  --enable-xlib-xrender=no \
+  --enable-xcb=no \
+  --enable-xlib-xcb=no \
+  --enable-xcb-shm=no \
+  --enable-xcb-drm=no \
+  --disable-dependency-tracking \
+  --prefix=$PREFIX
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+
+# libsigcxx
+wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/2.2/libsigc++-2.2.10.tar.bz2
+tar xvf libsigc++-2.2.10.tar.bz2
+cd libsigc++-2.2.10
+export CFLAGS=$CORE_CFLAGS
+export CXXFLAGS=$CORE_CXXFLAGS
+export LDFLAGS=$CORE_LDFLAGS
+./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=$PREFIX
+make -j4
+make install
+cd ../
+
+# cairomm
+wget http://cairographics.org/releases/cairomm-1.10.0.tar.gz
+tar xvf cairomm-1.10.0.tar.gz
+cd cairomm-1.10.0
+# NOTE: PKG_CONFIG_PATH must be correctly set by this point
+export LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib -lcairo -lfontconfig -lsigc-2.0 "$CORE_LDFLAGS
+export CFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include -I$PREFIX/include/cairo -I$PREFIX/include/freetype2 -I$PREFIX/include/fontconfig -I$PREFIX/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I$PREFIX/include/sigc++-2.0 -I$PREFIX/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++ "$CORE_CFLAGS
+export CXXFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include "$CFLAGS
+
+./configure --enable-static --disable-shared \
+    --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=$PREFIX
+make -j4
+make install