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Hi guys, been playing minetest for a while now. My computer broke, so I got a Mac. Used to have windows. Was wondering if anyone had a Mac build for 0.4.4. Anyone?

Here you are:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1e70bxo8a4ervsu/Y2hly8IljH/

There are a few people who have managed to get Minetest compile on Mac, currently there is no official build for Macs but these links will still hopefully be useful:

http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3627
http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2803
https://github.com/toabi/minetest-mac < Old but just might be useful

EDIT: Oh nice work OmniStudent, posted just a few seconds before me ^_^

Thanks guys. How do I install mods?

~/Library/Application Support/minetest

I'm doing some testing with minetest on my mac
http://www.mediafire.com/?8q46n3l2w7a7pgi

Currently you have to open up the minetest executable in the MacOS folder inside the package

hey guys i tried downloading the mac build but it wont open... help?

turns out the link is broken.... any help?

My current test build, randomly fails to start-- is http://www.mediafire.com/?z1t5vtv65pv52ov



My building process

• Install PROJ & UnixImageIO from http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks
  Install latest frameworks from my friends at STK http://sourceforge.net/projects/supertuxkart/files/SuperTuxKart%20Dependencies/OSX/
  Get minetest GIT
  Xcode project file is at http://www.mediafire.com/?2t97fo0jf7f04ck

4 people downloaded my build, I would like to know if it has worked

tux_peng wrote:4 people downloaded my build, I would like to know if it has worked

No it didnt for me... i click on the app and it doesnt start... do you know why this might be?

No, could you try to open the minetest executable in the MacOS directory; it was compiled on 10.8

Port is not high on my priority, I play on Linux. I provided my xcodeproj file for anyone to work on

What do you need IrishHillbilly?

It is the osx 0.4.4 version youre after, right?

OmniStudent -
Yes it is.

Here you are:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/plcizci49g6gqjz/EncC8BtfAA

Its compiled 32bit on osx 10.6.

Thanks Omni

OmniStudent-
It stil does the same thing, when i click on the app it doesnt open on the dock at all... do you know why it could be doing this? Is it something with my Computer?

Hey there,

same here - when I try to run that build from the last link I get the following in my console:

15.12.12 16:29:35 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[217] ([0x0-0x119119].celeron55.minetest[1905]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Games/minetest.app/Contents/MacOS/minetest", ...): Permission denied

and

15.12.12 16:29:35 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[217] ([0x0-0x119119].celeron55.minetest[1905]) Exited with exit code: 1

No program window whatsover.

What permission is needed? What am I doing wrong?
Help is greatly appreciated! :-)

Sorry I don't know how to fix this. Are you all running 10.8 or some other version?

The solution may be doing an install on your own computer. For this you need xcode and macports, to start with.

You need to use dylibbunddler for your build to be distributable. You can fix the permission errors with

@tux_peng:
Thx, that let me start minetest.
(Note for other noobs: you might have to change the path accordingly and the command(s) won't give any confirmation back ;-) )

Now I ran into another error (I copied a part from the message):

Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.8.dylib
Referenced from: ///Applications/Games/minetest.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/bin/minetest
Reason: image not found

Binary Images:
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe4163b dyld 132.1 (???) <4CDE4F04-0DD6-224E-ACE5-3C06E169A801> /usr/lib/dyld

My last post might have come out wrong:
Of course it DIDN'T start, but the "no permission"-error didn't come up again, so it's different issue.

And I might add that the command(s) work and do change the permission even though they don't give a confirmation about that.

On another note:
how do you install the STK framework?

In their zip-files there are only folder structures with files in them (which actually IS the framework, I assume?). Where do I need to put these?

@centaury

Yes you can do noting about the dependencies, tthe packager needs to use dylibbundler to fix those issues


For my build method- just copy the frameworks to /Library/Frameworks, and then copy them to /Applications/minetest.app/Contents/Frameworks when you are ready to distribute

i just gave up and downloaded wine, a software that can run windows programs

tux_peng wrote:You need to use dylibbunddler for your build to be distributable. You can fix the permission errors with

Oh, I did not know this. Then my builds are unusable :(

OmniStudent wrote:

tux_peng wrote:You need to use dylibbunddler for your build to be distributable. You can fix the permission errors with

Oh, I did not know this. Then my builds are unusable :(

It took me a while to learn that. I have worked on porting lincity-ng, pingus, defenguin, supertuxkart & other games in the past. I was lost until someone named Auria (currently one of the leaders of supertuxkart) helped me out.

What version of osx are you running?

You might want to check out my xcodeproj, I think I have it pretty close to compiling with frameworks only

Thanks for the tip, this would have taken me ages to figure out on my own. I have looked at dylibbbundler and will probably use it in this week.

I'm running 10.6 and won't change until my uber-mac-savvy bro tells me to.

Link to your xcode project please?

It will need some adjusting, and I do not know if it will open for you; I'll help out if I can

http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=55239#p55239

Tell me if anything needs reuploading

Oh, it was that one you published here :)

Is it possible to make one for mac 10.4 ppc?