# Gswax 0.0.1 greenshoes/gtk audio player

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gswax-0-0-1-greenshoes-gtk-audio-player/216049>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [January 24, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gswax-0-0-1-greenshoes-gtk-audio-player/216049 "2012-01-24T02:21:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gswax-0-0-1-greenshoes-gtk-audio-player/216049/1 "2012-01-24T02:21:53Z")

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hello all,

if you get a chance, check this out:

[https://sites.google.com/site/gswax0/](https://sites.google.com/site/gswax0/)

source is here: [GitHub - lljk/gsWax: greenShoes / gtk2 audio player for folks who miss their vinyl](https://github.com/lljk/gsWax)

i’d be interested to hear how/if this thing works on various platforms

- particularly OSX… haven’t been able to test it there yet!

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**Author:** ![lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a9a28c/32.png) [@lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lljk)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gswax-0-0-1-greenshoes-gtk-audio-player/216049/2 "2012-02-09T10:01:01Z")

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Hi Jake,

To help you out with OSX testing, I tried out your gem installation.  
Sadly it did not work ☹ Here is the build log:

Fetching: pkg-config-1.1.3.gem (100%)  
Fetching: glib2-1.1.2.gem (100%)  
Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
Fetching: atk-1.1.2.gem (100%)  
Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
ERROR: Error installing gswax:  
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

checking for atk... no \*\*\* extconf.rb failed \*\*\* Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:  
–with-opt-dir  
–without-opt-dir  
–with-opt-include  
–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include  
–with-opt-lib  
–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib  
–with-make-prog  
–without-make-prog  
–srcdir=.  
–curdir  
–ruby=/Users/gits/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/ruby  
–with-pkg-config  
–without-pkg-config  
–with-override-variables  
–without-override-variables

Seems one needs to install GTK+ on OSX before installing your gem,  
through something like brew or MacPorts. I have no actual need for your  
program now and have no other programs that needs GTK+, so I’m afraid I  
cannot help you with testing this out.

Also looked at your installation docs for Windows. Is this what you need  
for getting the gem to work there:

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4596606/rubygems-how-do-i-add-platform-specific-dependency>

Where is your gemspec located? Did not see it on GitHub.

Regards,  
Stig Kleppe-Jørgensen

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**Author:** ![lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a9a28c/32.png) [@lljk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lljk)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gswax-0-0-1-greenshoes-gtk-audio-player/216049/3 "2012-02-14T12:22:09Z")

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hi Stig -

sorry to take so long - didn’t see the reply!

> To help you out with OSX testing, I tried out your gem installation.

thanks!

> Sadly it did not work ☹ Here is the build log:

bummer - i’ll have a closer look at the log

> Seems one needs to install GTK+ on OSX before installing your gem,

hmm, that could be…

> Also looked at your installation docs for Windows. Is this what you need  
> for getting the gem to work there:

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4596606/rubygems-how-do-i-add-platform-specific-dependency](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4596606/rubygems-how-do-i-add-platform-specific-dependency)

i’ll take a look at this too…

> Where is your gemspec located? Did not see it on GitHub.

gemspec is here: [gsWax/gswax at gswax-gem · lljk/gsWax · GitHub](https://github.com/lljk/gsWax/tree/gswax-gem/gswax)

thanks again for trying it!

- j