#51 0.96.3 does not run on OS X (packaging issue)

[Jeffrey Carpenter]

Hi,

After excitedly downloading the game and installing it on my mac (OS X 10.10), I discovered that I was unable to run the game :-( After some quick digging around for the root of the cause (with a suspicion that it was merely a packaging bug), I discovered that I was able to resolve the problem by copying 'English.en.po' to the locale directory in the bundle's executable directory (MacOS), and running the game directly from a terminal shell.

I knew after this point that fixing the problem internally would probably be trivial for me to do, hence my attached patch to resolve the problem.

Not included in the patch is the one build setting I had to remove in the Xcode project file to build the game -- from IDE/xCode dir -- was under 'Other C++ Flags', '-mno-fused-madd'. No idea what the flag does, but it stopped complaining! :-)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask away!

Cheers,
Jeffrey Carpenter i8degrees@gmail.com

P.S. My first problem was actually bug 39, but I'm guessing either by using the latest distributions of SDL and SDL_mixer or some new feature in Xcode 6 resolved it for me -- the problem went away after building the project in Xcode using the latest sources from the git tree.

I was able to get around the missing SDL_mixer library issue initially by just passing DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH with a path to the Frameworks directory in the game's bundle and running the game from its MacOS directory from a shell.

[Jeffrey Carpenter]

I've attached a binary of the 0.96.3 build with my proposed patch, in the case that anybody else has trouble with this problem and is looking for a quick fix. I've already received a couple e-mails concerning this problem. I'm glad that my patch hasn't gone unnoticed! :-)

Installation instructions:

1. Unzip the file and move to Applications folder.
2. Copy PAK files to their respective folder as per the instructions at DuneLegacy's FAQ.

[RichieQ]

Thanks for your patch Jeffrey. I just applied it to master. Sorry for the delay as I'm currently very busy with RL. But I still plan to get back to Dune Legacy when I have more free time.

[Jeffrey Carpenter]

Good to hear! No worries, I was happy to be of some use :-)

Cheers,
Jeffrey Carpenter i8degrees@gmail.com

[manu107]

Hello
I moved the app to application, added the PAK to the folder, but when I launch it nothing happens (at least the first time it asked me to move the PAK files to the data folder, which I did).
What should I do ?
Than you

[RichieQ]

@manu107, what is the content of Dune Legacy.log (see FAQ on how to find it)?

[manu107]

Sorry I have uninstalled it !

Le 21 févr. 2015 12:44, "RichieQ" richieq@users.sf.net a écrit :

@manu107, what is the content of Dune Legacy.log (see FAQ
http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/faq.html on how to find it)?

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• [bugs:#51] http://sourceforge.net/p/dunelegacy/bugs/51 0.96.3 does not
  run on OS X (packaging issue)*

Status: open
Group: v1.0 (example)
Labels: osx bug packaging
Created: Thu Nov 13, 2014 05:21 AM UTC by Jeffrey Carpenter
Last Updated: Sat Feb 21, 2015 08:41 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

Hi,

After excitedly downloading the game and installing it on my mac (OS X
10.10), I discovered that I was unable to run the game :-( After some quick
digging around for the root of the cause (with a suspicion that it was
merely a packaging bug), I discovered that I was able to resolve the
problem by copying 'English.en.po' to the locale directory in the bundle's
executable directory (MacOS), and running the game directly from a terminal
shell.

I knew after this point that fixing the problem internally would probably
be trivial for me to do, hence my attached patch to resolve the problem.

Not included in the patch is the one build setting I had to remove in the
Xcode project file to build the game -- from IDE/xCode dir -- was under
'Other C++ Flags', '-mno-fused-madd'. No idea what the flag does, but it
stopped complaining! :-)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask away!

Cheers,
Jeffrey Carpenter i8degrees@gmail.com

P.S. My first problem was actually bug 39
https://sourceforge.net/p/dunelegacy/bugs/39, but I'm guessing either
by using the latest distributions of SDL and SDL_mixer or some new feature
in Xcode 6 resolved it for me -- the problem went away after building the
project in Xcode using the latest sources from the git tree.

I was able to get around the missing SDL_mixer library issue initially by
just passing DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH with a path to the Frameworks directory in
the game's bundle and running the game from its MacOS directory from a
shell.

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[Philipp Keller]

@RichieQ, first: thank you for providing the .app. Only issue I have is that the game only works once, if I start it a second time nothing happens (I think the same issue as @manu107 has). I can play the game though, I just have to unzip the .app every time.

Can you tell me how you got it to compile? I came pretty far by:

1. downloading and unpacking the source code from http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/downloads.html
2. patching a few files (applying https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/master/games/dunelegacy )
3. cp IDE/xCode3/*.m /usr/local/include/SDL/ (which is of course wrong but it gets make to the linker state)
4. run ./configure and make

now I only need to somehow compile MacFunctions.m and SDLMain.m in IDE/xCode3/ and I guess it's done.

Can you provide how you got that to work or provide a new .app file which doesn't have the issue described above?

[RichieQ]

This bug is for an old version of Dune Legacy. We just released version 0.96.4 and hope this bug is resolved (and thus close it). Please recheck the reported problem and file a new bug in case the problem is also valid for version 0.96.4.