[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#20125) freeciv 2.1.0 beta2 COMPILATION on INTEL mac os x

["Jason Dorje Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20125 >

Michael Zedler wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20125 >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I downloaded the source code of freeciv 2.1.0 beta2 and tried to compile 
> it on Mac OS X 10.4.7. X, Xsource, Fink, gtk2+ etc. are installed, but I 
> cannot get it compiled -- it looks like the configure script isn't quite 
> aware of the Mac yet.
> 
> I tried
>    ./configure --libdir=/sw/lib --libdir=/sw/lib/gtk-2.0/ 
> --includedir=/sw/include/ --includedir=/sw/include/gtk-2.0/ 
> --enable-client=xaw --with-included-gettext 
> --includedir=/sw/include/libpng12/
> 
> and it stops with
> checking for png_read_image in -lpng... no
> configure: error: Could not find PNG library (libpng).
> 
> Running the (PowerPC) .dmg of beta2 works, though. Could you make the 
> configure script foolproof for us Mac users, please?

To compile from source you will have to install the libpng library.

-jason