[Freeciv] Re: FAQ question

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:01:29PM -0800, Martin F. Melhus wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Thanks for creating and maintaining such a great game.
> 
> Now that 15% of the PC market is using or about to upgrade to
> a BSD based system (specifically Mac OSX,) I think that it would
> be appropriate to put together information about how to build
> and install freeciv on systems running Mac OSX.
> 
> With a little help, I could even do a build myself, and post
> the binary.  I did my own builds when using LinuxPPC, so I have
> a little experience with that, but I've never put a build together
> for others to download the binary, and with the multiple
> processors and architectures in the Mac line, I don't know that
> I'd get it right.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin F. Melhus
> aeronaut6@xxxxxxxxx

There have been several threads on freeciv-dev concerning building on MacOSX.
It can be done.  However, nobody seems to have ptovided a ready-to-install
binary distribution.  If anyone who has tried this can provide a
distribution and/or buiulding instructions for inclusion on the website,
I'll add it.

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Reinier