building NetRadiant on OS X, without X11.app

[ingar]

Hi,

I've been trying to get radiant working on OS X without having to depend on X11.
It is possible to produce a working binary, although not without a lot of tinkering.
There are a few quirks left to work out, so this is not yet intended for end-users.

I used macports 1.8 on 10.5 as build platform.
The Gtk2 library and all dependencies were installed as +no_x11 +quartz variant.

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sudo su -
echo "+no_x11 +quartz" > /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf
port install gtk2


The only exception is gtkglext. It does not support OS X and you need to
install a patched version. Download the source and get the gtkglext quartz patch from
sourceforge or my site

build with

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./configure --prefix=/opt/local --target-quartz
make
sudo make install


Patch the netradiant source with netradiant-395-quartz.patch and build as usual.

This is a work in progress: mouse handling seems to work in slow-motion and there
is some work to be done to get GL extensions to work. Insights are always appreciated


It might be worth noting that the Gtk2 library can be built with the image loader libraries
included within the main library. This works on win32, it might also work on OS X.

10.5 binaries do not seem to work on 10.4.

[divVerent]

Once you get it working well, please tell me, this patch will get into NetRadiant svn then. Also I'll probably need all the libraries you need in binary and .h form, so I can install them on the build machine (as I really don't want to install macports there as it's not my computer and it currently uses fink instead).

[Lixi]

Awesome, ingar, hopefully you can get it working stably and cleaned up!

10.5 binaries do not seem to work on 10.4.

Did you build against the 10.4u SDK or the system default? Assuming you installed the 10.4 SDK when you installed the dev tools, you can set these in macports.conf:

universal_target
Sets MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET

Example: 10.4

universal_sysroot
The SDK "sysroot" full path to use for +universal variant.

Example: /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk

universal_archs
The machine architectures to use for +universal variant (multiple entries must be space delimited). Options include: ppc, i386, ppc64, x86_64

Default: x86_64 i386 (ppc i386 for 10.5 and earlier)

And, then, of course, you'll need to build NetRadiant against that SDK, too, if div's makefile doesn't already do that. You can use the -arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk compiler flags to make a complete universal 10.4 compatible bin.

Once you get it working well, please tell me, this patch will get into NetRadiant svn then. Also I'll probably need all the libraries you need in binary and .h form, so I can install them on the build machine (as I really don't want to install macports there as it's not my computer and it currently uses fink instead).

If you're referencing the MacBook: of course you're welcome to install MacPorts, or if you prefer, I can do so anytime you want. You're more than welcome to do anything you'd like with it. I only setup fink because, at the time, I felt it had the most complete number of stable ports. Since that time, however, I think MacPorts has really become de facto. Whatever makes your life easier.

[ingar]

Did you build against the 10.4u SDK or the system default? Assuming you installed the 10.4 SDK when you installed the dev tools, you can set these in macports.conf:

Thanks for the tip Lixi, I did use the system default SDK, and not the 10.4 compatible one.
I'd better start recompiling my ports tree

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