MacPorts support

[ksze]

I'm a MacPorts guy. Is it possible to remove the hard dependency on the Homebrew pkg-config and zmq? Or is that out of your control?

[willwhitney]

As long as you've got ZeroMQ and pkg-config, it shouldn't matter where they came from. Homebrew is currently serving up pkg-config@0.28 and zmq@4.0.5.

[ksze]

That's strange. Right now the installation of Hydrogen still fails with a /bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found when it tries to use pkg-config, just like @speg mentions here: #13 (comment)

However, the MacPorts pkg-config is in my $PATH:

$ which pkg-config
/opt/local/bin/pkg-config

[willwhitney]

Does running pkg-config --version in the terminal give you 0.28?

[ksze]

Yes, it does give me 0.28.

[willwhitney]

Shit, sorry, I just realized I missed half of your previous comment. That's pretty mysterious to me.

If your main interest is just getting this running, I have to recommend Homebrew. It's what most people are using and it seems to work fine. If you're interested in getting this working with MacPorts, I'd love the help. Having to build zmq using node-gyp seems to be the source of 80% of the problems people have with installing.

[jzthree]

@ksze did you launch atom by typing atom command? I happened to have the same error when I installed hydrogen on my mac and realized that it couldn't find pkg-config if atom is not launched this way.

[willwhitney]

@jzthree +1 — just ran into someone who had this issue while trying to update the package.

[rgbkrk]

The other alternative is to run apm install hydrogen from the command line (to get your full path suite).

[ksze]

@rgbkrk Installing using apm install hydrogen works. Thanks!