Globulation2

(Only asking this after half an hour of looking around, so either I'm a few screws loose or it isn't too obvious)
It says it's compatible with Mac OS X, but I can't seem to find the Mac compatible download. The Download & Install Instructions merely say "download the disk image and run the installer", yet there isn't a Disk Image (.dmg) on the list of downloads!
Can anyone point me in the direction of a working d/l for the Mac version?

you can take a look at this post : http://globulation2.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51
Actually, there is no compiled version for mac because no developer owns a mac. However, you can try to compile from source.

If anyone out there with a mac does manage to compile let us know. It would be useful to have a pre-compiled mac binary on the download page.

Hello
Here is a version of Globulation2.
It's not the last, but...

That version is REALLY out of date. It'll give you an idea of what glob2 is like but there have been many enhancements since then. Taking a look at that page there is a link to darwinports and if I'm reading it right I think you can use that to compile the most recent code for mac but since I haven't even touched a mac since marathon1 came out (and that was on a friends computer) I can't really help you. I believe elvish pillager has a mac but he said on a similar thread that he hasn't been able to get glob2 to compile on it recently.

(excuse me, I'm French)
Okay.
I'm trying to compile the last version of Globulation since Friday.
But there some problems with the Sdl library...

Pmol wrote:I'm trying to compile the last version of Globulation since Friday.
But there some problems with the Sdl library...

I have compiled it without problems.
I have installed ports speex, libogg, libvorbis, libsdl, libsdl_image, libsdl_net, libsdl_ttf, boost and zlib. And with the good environments variables (CPPFLAGS='-I /opt/local/include' LDFLAGS='-L/opt/local/lib/' ./configure), configure then make went ok.

Yes
I did it
With the DarwinPort of Sdl_ttf and your export line, i did it. Thank you

Awesome! If you could post it I'm sure all the glob2-loving mac users will thank you.

*listens*

Well, they will in their haerts anyway

Hello
What do you want I do ?
A ReadMe ? A Howto ? A package (but i'll have to search) ?

glob2 has been updated to v0.8.21 in darwinports (now to be called macports).
So just do :
sudo port install glob2

i just installed the game via maports
but only the 0.8.21 version
i would be happy to help creating a dmg for the newer version
anyone know who i have to contact?

genix is the primary administrator for globulation but right now the glob2 engine is going through a massive rewrite. I'm not certain how much longer it will take but it apparently is at the compilation stage so it might be better to hold off a little before supplying a mac binary.

okay!
just write into this thread when it is time.

I've been working on installing this for a little while now, at first I couldn't get it to see sdl-config, but eventually I sorted that out. What I'm having problems with now is getting sdl_image to install (ie. what the globulation2 configure started complaining about after sdl-config).

SDL_image configures okay, the problem occurs during "make" I get hit with:

/usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lpng
/usr/bin/libtool: file: -lpng is not an object file (not allowed in a library)
/usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -ljpeg
/usr/bin/libtool: file: -ljpeg is not an object file (not allowed in a library)
/usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -ltiff
/usr/bin/libtool: file: -ltiff is not an object file (not allowed in a library)
make: *** [libSDL_image.la] Error 1

/usr/bin/libtool doesn't exist, I've tried using cd to get to it. all the other sdl libraries installed without problems, I should be able to get globulation2 to configure once this is done, and I'm more than willing to create a dmg for others once this is compiled. (assuming I can figure out how of course.)

I'm on OSX 10.4.9, first gen macbook. (intel core duo 2.0GHz, 1GB RAM). Thanks in advance for the help.

Update: Solved this one by commenting "IMG_LIBS = -lpng -lz -ljpeg -ltiff -lz" out of the makefile for SDL_image, new problem is:

checking boost/tuple/tuple.hpp usability... no
checking boost/tuple/tuple.hpp presence... no
checking for boost/tuple/tuple.hpp... no
configure: error: *** boost tuple headers not found

If I only knew where it was looking for it, this wouldn't be a problem.

Of course, the wiki said not just to download and install boost, but boost-devel as well. However there is no boost-devel boost.org's sourceforge page.