Mac install problem

[esteel]

Well we have had a similar problem with the nexuiz-linux*.sh scripts. Up to 2.0 there was only one, in 2.1 there are two + the old one in case of a patched system. Granted those were only wrappers and the real binaries got replaced nevertheless but do you really think there are much mac servers? And how many of those admins will run into problems when changing the filename? I do not think this is a problem that should hold back such a name change.

[divVerent]

No, the binaries always have "ppc" in their names... simply because 1.5 had no universal binaries.

Of course, functionality wise it doesn't matter... but I certainly do NOT want to keep the old dedicated server around when updating.

Symlinks would fix that, but they would mean more files when extracting, plus I don't know how Windows archive programs handle symlinks in ZIP files...

[Hawkslayer]

Sad to say, I still haven't gotten this to work on my OSX 1.4 Mac. (12" 1.5ghz G4 Powerbook)

I'm new to the Mac, so all the common windows commandline stuff is all unix type stuff here, and I'm not a unix guy. I bought a mac for it to be simple and reliable, not harder than windows to run stuff *sigh*

Do you have any OSX users in-house for you guys to test the release, or are we assuming since it built that it runs?

I really don't wanna come on here and complain, especially since it's a free download, yet this has been pretty frustrating trying to get working and if someone who knows how to get this running can help out, I'd really appreciate it. I'd be suprised if this is an uncommon thing for OSX users, but perhaps I messed something up when I unzipped the download.

It looks like a cool game and I'd love to get past the installation process and check out your creation!

I'm still at the same error stuff listed above. I booted terminal to try and add silly commandline paramaters to it, and typing nexuiz-osx-ppc-agl-bin in /applications/nexuiz/nexuiz.app/contents/macos directory doesn't run the game, even though when I double click on it, it runs. I tried opening the file in texedit to see if it is some kind of script, and it looks like a binary.. and there is no "show package contents" option so it looks like this is the file to run.. so I need to know what to do next.

[Ed]

Do you have any OSX users in-house for you guys to test the release, or are we assuming since it built that it runs?

Actually, on the Darkplaces page (the engine the game uses) it does say that there haven't been any Mac releases of Darkplaces recently because Lord Havoc's friend's Mac is out of commission. So, no, it doesn't get tested as thoroughly as other platforms.

[Hawkslayer]

Ah, ok.. I only checked out the nexuiz part so I didn't see that.

I'd be happy to try stuff out if someone wants to get this running and maybe improve the next release or documentation somehow for any others who have this situation.

Do you all have any confirmed OSX users out there?

I'm willing to help figure this out, if you all wanna guide me though some tests.

[Hawkslayer]

To check for that, open Terminal.app, "cd" into the Nexuiz directory and run ./nexuiz-osx-ppc-dedicated. Look at the first lines it wrote.

I missed this part.. (the ./ before the executable fixed me not able to run the binary)

I ran the dedicated and got this:

Nexuiz Mac OS X 22:16:34 Sep 5 2006
Trying to load library... "libz.dylib" - loaded.
Compressed files support enabled
Added packfile data/common-spog.pk3 (26 files)
data/data20060905.pk3 is not a valid PK3 file
unable to load pak "data/data20060905.pk3"
Trying to load library... "libcurl.3.dylib" - loaded.
cURL support enabled
couldn't exec quake.rc
couldn't exec default.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Couldn't load map maps/start.bsp

So.. it seems my pk3 might be corrupted.. so I'm gonna re-download and post my results.

[divVerent]

From my map dowload server's logs, I can conclude we do have Mac users... but I cannot conclude how many. A rough guess would be about 10 to 30 users (given from how often the same maps were downloaded).

[Hawkslayer]

Cool, it looks like it could be as simple as a bad download on my end.. *doh*

Hope it is just that. I sure don't wanna have to figure out how to make a batch file to run the app with special command line switches.

[esteel]

data/data20060905.pk3 is not a valid PK3 file
unable to load pak "data/data20060905.pk3"

So.. it seems my pk3 might be corrupted.. so I'm gonna re-download and post my results.

Yes indeed this error message looks like a download error. Though actually your zip program should have complained about this when you tried to extract Nexuiz

[Hawkslayer]

Well, it seems I ran out of disk space when it was unzipping and I didn't notice.. because while the binaries worked, the .pk3 file was corrupt/incomplete.

All is well, thanks!

Runs nice, actually.

Off to polish up my DM skills..