MacOSX Install issues

[grantdelozier]

I'm having issues installing this on MacOSX 10.11.6, even with the special install directions

When installing I use paths to the newest versions of freetype and libpng installed via homebrew.

./configure --with-libpng-library=/usr/local/Cellar/libpng/1.6.29/lib/  --with-libpng-includes=/usr/local/Cellar/libpng/1.6.29/include/ --with-freetype2-library=/usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.7.1/lib/ --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.7.1/include/freetype2/
make

This works, but with a few errors

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: WARNING:  'Makefile.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
config.status: creating goo/Makefile
config.status: creating fofi/Makefile
config.status: creating splash/Makefile
config.status: creating xpdf/Makefile
config.status: creating aconf.h
config.status: aconf.h is unchanged
configure: WARNING: Couldn't find X
configure: WARNING: Couldn't find Motif
configure: WARNING: -- You will be able to compile pdftops, pdftotext,
        pdfinfo, pdffonts, pdfdetach, and pdfimages, but not xpdf
        or pdftoppm

When I attempt to run pdftojson I see the following error about freetype versions

xpdf/pdftojson <input.pdf> <output.json>
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/freetype/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/grant/devel/pdftojson/xpdf/pdftojson
  Reason: Incompatible library version: pdftojson requires version 20.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 19.0.0
Trace/BPT trap: 5

[grantdelozier]

What confuses me about the freetype version numbers is that they seem completely off -- everything that I can find suggests 2.7.1 is the newest version, but the error is suggesting 20.0.0 is required.

[grantdelozier]

It seems like the program is reverting to a default freetype install, despite being configured with the specific newer version.

I was able to fix the errors by removing all other competing versions of freetype and libpng (previously installed via macports). I then re-installed all necessary brew packages:

brew install libpng
brew install freetype
brew install openmotif
brew cask install xquartz

And then re-ran the install

./configure --with-libpng-library=/usr/local/Cellar/libpng/1.6.29/lib/  --with-libpng-includes=/usr/local/Cellar/libpng/1.6.29/include/ --with-freetype2-library=/usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.7.1/lib/ --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.7.1/include/freetype2/
make

Now everything seems to work!

[ldenoue]

Great, your messages will be useful for others on Mac.