Nexuiz build script for MAC / OSX?

[Dokujisan]

This has come up a lot to me in IRC. I see compile scripts for linux and Windows, but not MAC. Does anyone have any insight into this?

[merlijn]

Haven't had the time to make a full script yet, but I have been able to get nexuiz to compile on my mac using these steps:

(most of these are shamelessly ripped from other threads in the forum, so thank you all)

First off you need to have the latest Xcode tools installed. You can install this from the install DVD that came with your mac.

I have only been able to test this using OSX 10.5 Leopard on x86, if anyone feels like testing Tiger/Panther or on PPC please post a reply if it works or not .

Obtain the sources

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mkdir -p ~/Games/Nexuiz && cd ~/Games/Nexuiz && svn co svn://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/trunk

cd ~/Games && svn co svn://svn.icculus.org/twilight/trunk/darkplaces

mkdir -p ~/Games/fteqcc && cd ~/Games/fteqcc && svn co https://fteqw.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fteqw/trunk/engine/qclib/

Compiling everything

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cd ~/Games/fteqcc/qclib/ && make

cd ~/Games/darkplaces && make cl-nexuiz

cd ~/Games/Nexuiz/trunk/data && make FTEQCC="~/Games/fteqcc/qclib/fteqcc.bin"

Creating the OSX .app

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cp -R ~/Games/Nexuiz/trunk/misc/buildfiles/osx/Nexuiz.app ~/Games/Nexuiz/trunk/

ln -sf ~/Games/darkplaces/nexuiz-agl ~/Games/Nexuiz/trunk/Nexuiz.app/Contents/MacOS/nexuiz-osx-agl-bin

This gave me a working executeable, just point Finder to your homedir/Games/Nexuiz/trunk/ and double click on the Nexuiz application.

There is however a couple of bugs I didn't bother to fix, possible someone can enlighten me how to do it better:

- The SDL version doesn't work (I am missing SDL header files)
- You will still be using old libraries for jpeg/png/vorbis support, which were in the original .app, it would better to compile them from source as well, as the ones in there are probably over a year old.

[Alien]

I wonder how hard it would be to make netradiant package (or compile script) for mac, because the 1.4 is buggy. I don't have mac.

[divVerent]

Hard, as long as no OS X developer offers help in fixing the parts that still crash on OS X (like, for an unknown reason, loading MD3 models).

[esteel]

Creating the OSX .app

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cp -R ~/Games/Nexuiz/trunk/misc/buildfiles/osx/Nexuiz.app ~/Games/Nexuiz/trunk/

cp ~/Games/darkplaces/nexuiz-agl ~/Games/Nexuiz/trunk/Nexuiz.app/Contents/MacOS/nexuiz-osx-agl

I would replace the second cp with a link.. then you can't for get to copy the engine and it will 'automatically' be uptodate when you update and compile DP

[merlijn]

Thanks esteel, I have added your suggestion.

However there still is a little problem that occurs when updating. Suppose that the Nexuiz.app gets changed in svn, the folder would have to be copied to the trunk dir again - and the link would be gone anyway. Not copying over the Nexuiz.app after an update is potentially worse since you wouldn't get the new updates. Sounds like somewhat of a catch-22 .

I have attempted to make a softlink for the Nexuiz.app folder as well, but then the game fails due to missing game content.

[esteel]

Oh how do i love the simplicity of doing this on linux I just use cd ~/vc/nexuiz/trunk; ~/.nexuiz/u to start a update.. I can use several checkouts by just changing that cd.. That single line updates DP, fteqcc and nexuiz.. were updating means to first show all the changes in svn and then fetching them and compiling..
I split it into several scripts as then i can also run them independent of each other. That makes it look a bit more complicated than it actually is though!
Maybe its useful for someone.. ( i have all the checkouts in ~/vc/nexuiz , ~/vc/darkplaces and ~/vc/fteqcc were vc stands for version-control and i have all the scripts in ~/.nexuiz )

#! /bin/sh

path=`dirname "$0"`

(cd darkplaces && "$path/ud")
(cd fteqcc && "$path/uf")
"$path/un"

#! /bin/sh

(svnl -v && svn up && make release) 2>&1 | less

#! /bin/sh

(svnl -v && svn up && make) 2>&1 | less

#!/bin/sh

export FTEQCC="$PWD/fteqcc.bin"

(svnl -v && svn up && (cd data; make)) 2>&1 | less

This script is used via $PATH and also useful in other cases..

#! /bin/sh

exec svn log -r HEAD:BASE "$@"

I did the checkouts by hand (should be an easy script though..) and then ~/.nexuiz/l ( from within ~/vc/nexuiz/trunk) to create the needed softlinks:

#! /bin/sh

path=`dirname "$0"`

"$path/ld"
"$path/lf"

This one uses short names, however the nexuiz-linux-*.sh script use the 'official binary names' and thus will not work. I start the binaries 'by hand' and do not use the .sh scripts. If you still want to use them, change the link names to match the 'real' binaries!

#! /bin/sh

ln -s "$@" "$HOME/vc/twilight/trunk/darkplaces" darkplaces
ln -s "$@" darkplaces/darkplaces-dedicated nexuiz-dedicated
ln -s "$@" darkplaces/darkplaces-sdl nexuiz-sdl
ln -s "$@" darkplaces/darkplaces-glx nexuiz-glx

#! /bin/sh

ln -s "$@" "$HOME/vc/fteqw/trunk/engine/qclib" fteqcc
ln -s "$@" fteqcc/fteqcc.bin fteqcc.bin

[MC SE7EN]

im downloading the svn now..had no idea there wasnt a way to compile on mac..i have to use the sdl version..so basically what all this means is im screwed? that sucks.

and no, i have no idea how to make a compile script..

[merlijn]

I heard you can easily download SDL for mac too, I just never tried it. http://guides.macrumors.com/Installing_SDL looks helpful.

I think the rest of the steps are fairly straightforward, you might have to choose a different make target for darkplaces and copy over Nexuiz-SDL.app and link the nexuiz-osx-sdl-bin this time.

[Isabella12]

Visit the Apple Developer Connection, create a developer account and download Xcode. Version 2.2 is 837.3MB and requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Older versions should work as well, and you will most likely find a version included with your Mac OS X install disks.
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