[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3539) Cant Compile on MacOSX

["Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Andy Black wrote:

> Greetings
>
> The next problem that will be encountered will likely be a message
> that you were unable to build a client.
>
> Freeciv has two components, the client and the server.  The server is
> command line based, and should build without a hassle under OS X.
> The client portion is inherently platform specific.  At this time, no
> working native client exists for either OS X or the classic
> environment.  I have been working on changing that, but I am unlikely
> to finish this task any time soon.
>
> A solution is to build the GTK client and run it using an X11 client.
> The X11 client can also be obtained from Apple
> (http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/download/) or can be built from
> scratch.  The Apple download is ~50 MB, including the download for
> the SDK (you'll need it).  You'll also need to download a utility
> called Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/) and an associated utility
> called Fink Commander (http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/).  Fink
> can be used to build many LINUX programs and utilities under OS X.
> After installing the X-11 client, the SDK, Fink, and FinkComander,
> you'll need to install the gtk+ or gtk+2 packages (you only need
> one).  The download for those packages (and their associated
> libraries) is probably 100-150 MB more.  If you don't chose to
> install the Apple X11 client, you'll need to build one from another
> sources, such as through Fink.
>
> I hope these instructions are detailed enough to point you in the
> correct direction.

You will probably find this interesting:
http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/

It is Carbon based so no X server is required.
Dunno if you heard of it already.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa