HowTo:Compile on OSX

Compiling from SVN under your favourite Unixlike OS

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How to compile from SVN under OSX.

Getting the SVN-files

• Checkout the following modules ...
  • data package: data4.x
  • code package: vegastrike
• Visit HowTo:Checkout SVN to see how you check these modules out.

Requirements

In order to compile Vega Strike there are a few things to check:

• Ensure you have installed XCode Tools from your OS installation disc.
  • Various gcc versions included in XCode Tools releases may have bugs preventing the compilation of Vega Strike. Vega Strike is known to work, on OSX, with gcc version powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0 (GCC) 4.0.0 20041026
  • You should also install the Mac OSX 10.3.9 SDK from the same disk.
• Using Fink, make sure you install the following libraries:
  • libpng + libpng-devel <-- libpng 3 is recommended.
  • python and python-dev <-- 2.2.1
  • expat
  • (lib)jpeg + libjpeg-devel
• Download the SDL source tarball, version 1.2.10 or later, compile, and install.
• Download and install the OpenAL framework.

Compiling

The compile procedure should look like the following listing. Remember the configure part depends on above requirements.

cd ./vegastrike
./bootstrap-sh
./configure
make vegastrike
make soundserver

Note: You will require various options on configure, to specify the paths to the various libraries you have installed. Note: If you intend to build a binary to replace the that packaged in a release (ie in a .app), then you must use the configure command --enable-macosx-bundle

See also

• Compiling from SVN under your favourite Unixlike OS
• "make clean/distclean" thread in the forum - A quite helpful thread about the make process.

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Compiling from SVN under your favourite Unixlike OS

HowTos

Using GDB