FreeOrion

Is it possible to create a section of the forum devoted to the issues of compiling, building and distributing FreeOrion? Currently it seems that there is no real place for discussions of how to compile FreeOrion. The wiki says to try the forum, but the relevant forum posts seem to be scattered acros...

Sheldar do run PPC or Intel? Are any of the bugs recurring?

Yes, the save/load crash is certainly specific to the Intel Platform. The bug is in GiGi. It also only happens when the compiler is optimizing, so I think the best thing at this point is to turn off optimization in the one affected file. If anyone out there is experiencing this problem I can make a ...

eleazar, can you save/load?
I cannot, and understand this is a either a me-specific or a mac-specific issue

can you reproduce any of the other crashes?[/b]

Ok, now I have a package installer that I think will work. It's 108 MB, and I don't really have anywhere to host it... but if anyone is interested let me know.

I did manage to get the last FO to compile in universal format. It's a unix executable, not a .App, and it requires some "set up", but I'll work on that. All told it is probably around 100 MB.

For whatever reason I've never used Fink. I probably should... that being said if you can get it to work with Fink great, if not the instructions are there. With regard to source code edits, you are correct that none should be required anymore. With regard to terminal, indeed you should change direc...

My instructions should work on PPC as well, as long as you have Mac OS 10.4 or better. I discovered that it is quite easy to compile GiGi/FreeOrion as Universal binary, but in order to link I must recompile all the dependencies as well. They don't use scons (which I discovered is a beautiful thing) ...

Link (dyld) error: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libltdl.3.dylib Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/graphviz/libgvc.2.dylib Reason: image not found The dyld loads the external libraries on which FO depends. Apparently you are missing libltdl.3.dylib, which whoever compiled the application must have had...

RC5 seems to compile just fine for me (other than some of the same issues I had with the previous version), but I must confess I don't really know much about Universal binaries, or getting FO to work with Apple's application structure. Perhaps whoever created the RC4.app could help? I am certainly w...

I've written up something, somewhat in the style of "User Stories" about compiling on Mac OS X. http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/User ... OS_X_Intel

Alright, this is probably going to be a long post, but maybe someone will find the information useful. As far as compiling freeorion (and GiGi) there are only a few changes that I had to make (note for anyone out there trying to compile it themself, there are also changes to dependencies that I'm no...

Hey, I'm new here, so I'm sorry if I'm repeating something, but I couldn't find a clear consensus on the issue of FreeOrion builds for Mac OS X. What I know is that I tried once, on 10.3 PPC a few months ago when I first found out about FO, but ran into issues with Quicktime and Apple linking agains...