Error while installing Robocup server on Mac

[Siddharth]

Hello,

I'm new to programming and was trying to build the binaries of rcssserver-15.2.2. However, this error cropped up:

ld: library not found for -lrcssclangparser
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[3]: [rcssserver] Error 1
make[2]: [all] Error 2
make[1]: [all-recursive] Error 1
make: [all] Error 2

I'm not sure what libraries do I need to install. I already have an updated Xcode which takes care of all C++ libraries (I thought..).

Many thanks and regards.

[Nick James]

I've added RoboCup to Homebrew for OSX, so that's probably the easiest way for you to get the soccer server installed on a Mac.

One Homebrew is installed, just run the following commands (depending on what you want to install).

$ brew install rcssserver
$ brew install rcssmonitor
$ brew install rcsslogplayer

[Alexander Whillas]

Hey thats great!
Only problem is I get this error when trying to compile, ether via homebrew or downloading the latest stable release:

configure: error: Could not find a version of the library!

If it told you which library it could not find that might help a little :-/

[Nick James]

That's homebrew hiding the details from you I suspect. Try again specifying --verbose. Hopefully that'll show you what's wrong. It should just work though, it's been tested on lion, mountain lion and mavericks over at http://bot.brew.sh.

[Alexander Whillas]

Hey thanks for getting back to me so quickly Nick! I'm on Snow Leopard and it seems that brew didn't link boost properly so:

brew link boost

fixed it and it compiled. I'm getting this error now when trying to build the monitor application:

ld: library not found for -lpng

which png lib is it looking for?

[Alexander Whillas]

Actually, its all good. I figured out I needed to force Brew to override the OSX version of libpng like so:

brew link --overwrite libpng --force

[Nick James]

I wonder if Snow Leopard ships an older version of that library than the versions Homebrew tests with? Still, at least you've got it working :)