Unable to build ToME on OS X

[koolatron]

Hiya! Due to the current lack of a binary distribution of b38 for OS X, I figured I'd grab the source and compile it myself. Has anyone managed to get this working? It appears that the source distribution is missing some resources, but I'm not familiar enough with the T-engine codebase to know whether there is additional bootstrapping that I need to do before this'll work.

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CpResource ../game/engines/default/data/gfx/te4-icon.png build/Release/T-Engine.app/Contents/Resources/te4-icon.png
    cd /Users/hillse/Downloads/t-engine4-src-1.0.0beta38/mac
    builtin-copy -exclude .DS_Store -exclude CVS -exclude .svn -exclude .git -exclude .hg -strip-debug-symbols -resolve-src-symlinks /Users/hillse/Downloads/t-engine4-src-1.0.0beta38/mac/../game/engines/default/data/gfx/te4-icon.png /Users/hillse/Downloads/t-engine4-src-1.0.0beta38/mac/build/Release/T-Engine.app/Contents/Resources
error: /Users/hillse/Downloads/t-engine4-src-1.0.0beta38/mac/../game/engines/default/data/gfx/te4-icon.png: No such file or directory

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** BUILD FAILED **

The following build commands failed:
	CpResource ../game/engines/default/data/gfx/te4-icon.png build/Release/T-Engine.app/Contents/Resources/te4-icon.png

the game/engines/default directory does not in fact exist, and te4-icon.png is nowhere in the distribution.

I'll pastebin the entire build log when I get home tonight.

[yufra]

People periodically update the code to compile on OSX, but since my Mac laptop died I have even less incentive to do this. I'll double check who the semi-official OSX builder is, though.

[Akabander]

Bummer that it's so hard to find someone who can help with the Mac build.

I'm really not familiar with the code base or the build process, but having different versions on Windows and OSX is really killing me right now... I'd be willing to devote some time and/or cycles to getting a Mac build out the door.

Just not sure where to start...

[kazak]

I have a macbook with Leopard (10.5) from 2008. The last beta I was able to build was b31, and the pre-compiled downloads from the website don't support "older" OS's. I've just lately been playing on a windows machine from work, giving DG further credence to the moniker "bane of productivity."

Anyway, there were a couple threads in General Discussion with detailed instructions about compiling on OSX. Those haven't been updated since probably b31, but it might be a place to start.

[tekrunner]

Speaking of which, any idea when b38 will be out for Mac OS?

[tiger_eye]

I doubt the xcode project is up to date, so you should build t-engine from the command line similarly to how you would do it in linux and MinGW under Windows: begin with the command "premake4 gmake", followed by "make".

The wiki page, http://te4.org/wiki/howtocompile , is probably out of date and incomplete, but it should be able to help out, and don't feel shy about posting specific issues you may have. I was able to build t-engine on somebody else's mac last fall using this approach.

[Narbat]

I poked around trying to compile on OSX and eventually gave up. On the other hand, I found that the Windows version seems to run really well under Wine. At least it hasn't crashed yet, two or three levels into Trollmire. Crossing my fingers that it stays stable. Love the new UI!