because I’m old and I dislike magic. Also I usually like to tweak stuff, which any of this magic stuff will no doubt prevent.

Why make your life unnecessarily hard? For pkg-config, try –with-internal-glib.

I assume (haha) that it’s how the internal rendering is done, before it’s sent out to SDL or Cocoa… Of course I could be 100% wrong.

Thanks for the hints! For now I went for a quick and dirty solution by using macports. One dependency makes me wonder: pixman. I build QEMU without SDL, GTK, Cocoa and VNC, and still it needs pixman. Strange.

It’s very …. complicated. lol from my older notes you need to get pkg-config building, and to do that you need a version with an internal glib… use the flags: configure ––with-internal-glib

I was almost going to document the build steps last night, but then I thought the world at large doesn’t care as they use some package/brew thing and I think I’m the last end user on the planet that builds by hand.

If you still have issues I can shuffle my /usr/local out of the way and re-build. Maybe I should have those steps documented anyways.