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Do posix builds work on Macs ? NO
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 10:09 am
by 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 ?
Re: Have posix builds been tried on Macs ?
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 10:52 am
by 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.
Re: Have posix builds been tried on Macs ?
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 12:02 pm
by MrFlibble
Lone_Wolf wrote: ↑Wed Dec 10, 2025 10:09 am
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.
Re: Have posix builds been tried on Macs ?
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 1:05 pm
by Lone_Wolf
MrFlibble wrote: ↑Wed Dec 10, 2025 12:02 pm
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 ?
Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed Dec 10, 2025 10:52 am
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.
Re: Have posix builds been tried on Macs ?
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 1:50 pm
by 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!
Re: Have posix builds been tried on Macs ?
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 7:35 am
by Lone_Wolf
That's a downer, but good to have verfication.
Thank you for testing it.