[Freeciv] Re: Help With Installation Please

[John Kennedy <jfk@xxxxxxx>]

Fools rush in where.....lol

You should check out fink. It's a program that allows you to download 
and compile tons of packages and does most of the work for you. Free 
civ isn't included unfortunately, but I've set up wmaker and gimp. 
Gimp is wonderful, it is like a free version of photoshop.
If you're unaware, you should also install xonx, it's great and 
allows you to go back and forth between xwindows and aqua. When in 
aqua, you have an X icon in the dock, clicking on it puts you back 
into your x desktop. In your x desktop command option a takes you 
back to aqua. Very small but nice program.
Check it out at

http://mrcla.com/XonX/

And check out fink at

http://fink.sourceforge.net/

Anyway, I included the above to let you know there is a ton of stuff 
people are doing now with osx.
I have gtk+ and imlib installed (I needed them for gimp), but they 
may be different versions than what freeciv is looking for. Though 
the config script seemed to think I had everything.
If I do get it running, I will pass along any tips.

Cheers,

-John
> First let me say you are a brave man to be trying this under osx.  :)
>
> I'm on osx now as well, I've gotten Xwindows running so I might be 
> able to give you some pointers in the right direction (although it 
> hadn't yet occurred to me to try to compile freeciv on it).  First, 
> have you gotten the recent 10.0.1 update?  That might help.  Second, 
> do you have development libraries for Xwindows installed?  If you 
> installed Xwindows from binary you may not have them.  Do you have a 
> window manager and/or GTK+ installed?
> This may turn into an error in the compiler or something "deep" like 
> that, so check out the darwin development lists and sites.  See if 
> any other *NIX programs have had this trouble compiling.
> Let me know what find out so that when I get around to installing 
> freeciv, I can follow your guidance!
>
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> On Thursday, April 19, 2001, at 11:32 AM, John Kennedy wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am trying to install freeciv. I am on a mac running osx, but I 
> > also have xwindows up and running under bsd. I ran the configure 
> > script which didn't complain about anything missing but when I run 
> > make I get the following output:
> > Making all in common
> > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl    -g -O2 -Wall -c city.c
> > city.c:97: bad macro argument list
> > city.c:97: bad macro argument list
> > city.c:97: bad macro argument list
> > city.c:97: bad macro argument list
> > city.c:97: bad macro argument list
> > city.c:97: bad macro argument list
> > city.c:97: bad macro argument list
> > cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying 
> > in basic mode
> > make[2]: *** [city.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> >
> >
> > Any ideas on how to get this up and running? Any help would be 
> > greatly appreciated. Thanks
> > John
> > --
> >
> > QUIT



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