Unresolved Issues with the Mac version of Oolite

[Bogatyr]

Thanks for the pointer. Who / what builds the Mac releases for download on oolite.space? On which Mac OS, with which Xcode version?

[MrFlibble]

Thanks for the pointer. Who / what builds the Mac releases for download on oolite.space? On which Mac OS, with which Xcode version?

The Mac builds haven't happened for quite a while. Not properly since 1.90. You may be able to glean some clues from the github build scripts.

phkb was trying to get a 1.91 built on Mac, but IIRC that stalled due to issues with OpenGL.

If the mood takes you, install xcode, grab the source, and have at it. Please post your versions and results hereabouts so we can all learn from your efforts. 1.90 should build reasonably easily, but newer versions will have pain points.

[Bogatyr]

Thanks. At this point I'm just trying to orient myself. What changes from 1.90 to 1.91 are the most problematic?

[hiran]

Thanks for the pointer. Who / what builds the Mac releases for download on oolite.space? On which Mac OS, with which Xcode version?

The Mac builds haven't happened for quite a while. Not properly since 1.90. You may be able to glean some clues from the github build scripts.

phkb was trying to get a 1.91 built on Mac, but IIRC that stalled due to issues with OpenGL.

If the mood takes you, install xcode, grab the source, and have at it. Please post your versions and results hereabouts so we can all learn from your efforts. 1.90 should build reasonably easily, but newer versions will have pain points.

The github build scripts do not contain MacOS. I know I had some experiments but now cannot find them - not even in the history. Must have been some experimental branch that got deleted without merge.

[Cholmondely]

The only nightly to be ported by Getafix was that of the 8th of Feb 2022 - and it crashed much more frequently than v.1.90 does (but, thinking about it, I never tried upping the "allocated RAM" for playing it).

Getafix had his own method for producing AppleMac Oolite - probably involving lobsters or something. I understand that more recent efforts have involved other means (presumably lobster-free, but what would I know?).

[another_commander]

Thanks. At this point I'm just trying to orient myself. What changes from 1.90 to 1.91 are the most problematic?

The main issue is the renderer upgrade. Oolite now requires OpenGL 3.3 and Apple's support of OpenGL versions beyond 2.1 is kind of problematic, to put it gently... The thread with phkb's build attempt has some more details on this.