Minetest for MacOSX

[Lord_Elfidorian]

I started with minetest nearly two years ago, back when the toabi github downloads for mac were recent. I left for quite a while because it was not getting updated for mac. I have now returned, and I am pleasantly surprised by how far this project has come, however there still is no reliable mac build. I was wondering if they are any mac builds and I am just not looking hard enough or is there a way to easily compile it for myself...

[onpon4]

Have you tried compiling? OS X is a POSIX system, so it shouldn't be too complicated.

[Lord_Elfidorian]

Have you tried compiling? OS X is a POSIX system, so it shouldn't be too complicated.

Ok I have not tried that

could you point me to some documentation/tutorials on how to do that

[onpon4]

There's a readme included with the source; it's geared toward GNU/Linux and especially Ubuntu, but it should be possible to figure out how to do it; the main difference is going to be how you install the dependencies. You need cmake, make, and the libraries Minetest uses. You can get an idea of the last one by the Ubuntu command it suggests; every word after "apt-get install" is a package name. You can look in http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages or http://packages.ubuntu.com/ to find out what those packages are for if you can't tell by the name of the package, and figure out what you need to do to get the same dependency for OS X.