Do posix builds work on Macs ? NO

[Lone_Wolf]

While looking at targets supported by Make I noticed several are labelled as posix-* .
There were also mentions of oolite "known to be running on BSDs"

Apple OS X is often said to be posix compliant with the BSD styles.
The binaries on the oolite github releases page are labeled as linux-* but are created through the posix-* targets.

Is someone willing to test those binaries on apple macs ?

[Cholmondely]

I'm happy to do what I can. But I'm not a programmer and don't even understand what you have written above. I use an old Mac and also have access to an M1 chip Mac.

[MrFlibble]

While looking at targets supported by Make I noticed several are labelled as posix-* .
There were also mentions of oolite "known to be running on BSDs"

Apple OS X is often said to be posix compliant with the BSD styles.
The binaries on the oolite github releases page are labeled as linux-* but are created through the posix-* targets.

Is someone willing to test those binaries on apple macs ?

They simply will not work on Macs. They are binaries for GNU linux systems, and only fairly specific ages of those, depending when the binaries were built.

[Lone_Wolf]

They simply will not work on Macs. They are binaries for GNU linux systems, and only fairly specific ages of those, depending when the binaries were built.

The question is : has that ever been put to the test ?

I'm happy to do what I can. But I'm not a programmer and don't even understand what you have written above. I use an old Mac and also have access to an M1 chip Mac.

Download https://github.com/OoliteProject/oolite ... x86_64.tgz
extract it to some temporary location and you'll see oolite-1.90-test.linux-x86_64.run .

Try to execute that file.

[maik]

First this:

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./oolite-1.90-test.linux-x86_64.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Oolite 1.90 .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Install Oolite system-wide or in your home directory? [s/H] H
Installing Oolite in "/Users/maikschulz/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite"...
-n Copying oolite executable and resources... 
Done.
-n Extracting AddOns/Basic-debug.oxp... 
Done.
-n Extracting documentation... 
Done.
-n Extracting dependencies... 
Done.
-n Generating startup and wrapper scripts... 
Done.
-n Updating desktop menu... 

Warning 127: xdg-utils not properly installed. Oolite desktop menu cannot be installed.
-n Cleaning up temporary folders... 
Warning 2: Some temporary files and/or folders could not be deleted.
Finished!

-n To start Oolite from a shell, 
run "/Users/maikschulz/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite".
To uninstall Oolite, run "/Users/maikschulz/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/uninstall".

Then this (omitting the contents of the readme):

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./GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite
This is the first time you've run the game. Here is the README file -
more docs can be found at Oolite/doc/
Press q to exit this document and launch the game

/Users/maikschulz/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite.app/oolite-wrapper: line 69: ./oolite.app/oolite: cannot execute binary file

Erk. It looks like Oolite died with an error. When making an error
report, please copy + paste the log above into the report.

Too bad!

[Lone_Wolf]

That's a downer, but good to have verfication.

Thank you for testing it.