Anyone willing to compile/port a program?

[cleo]

I don't know the first thing about coding/compiling/anything involving the comand line but ftp and telnet. But I found what looks to be an awesome game, Ice Breaker, which is an evolution of the old Windows game Jezzball.

It was originally written in Linux, but according to the author, porting it to OS X would be a snap:

Anyone want to make a MacOS version? SDL and SDL_mixer, the required libraries, work on both OS X and earlier versions, so it should be quite easy to port. I'd love to have a compiled version to distribute here.

Anyway, I can't contribute much intellectually, but if someone who knows what they're doing would try their hand at it, I'd be willing to peruse their wishlist. And you'd be a hero, as this looks to be one kick-arse game!

 

[bousozoku]

Funny, someone sent me the Ice Breaker source code back around July last year.

Maybe by 2005, I'll do something about it.

 

[csubear]

i'll let you know how it goes

 

[csubear]

my .mac name is s.laing, it should be in my public folder just unzip, fire up X11 and find the icebreaker, and type ./icebreaker.

 

[cleo]

Originally posted by csubear
my .mac name is s.laing, it should be in my public folder just unzip, fire up X11 and find the icebreaker, and type ./icebreaker.

csu, you're my hero! i'm afraid i'm a little thick and need some more help, though. when i try to run icebreaker, i get the following error:

dyld: ./icebreaker can't open library: /usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
Trace/BPT trap

I assume that that means I need to download something and install it, but exactly what and where?

 

[Nermal]

Originally posted by cleo
csu, you're my hero! i'm afraid i'm a little thick and need some more help, though. when i try to run icebreaker, i get the following error:

I assume that that means I need to download something and install it, but exactly what and where?

You're not really thick at all

I tried running the game too, but I get the same message. I've installed 3 different versions of libSDL (that can't be good for the system) and still can't get it working

 

[csubear]

i'll put up the libarays today. sorry about that. i didn't know that it had linked against dynamic libs. But here is a screen a screen shot. Check my .mac later.

 

[csubear]

Okay the SDL suff is up on my .mac public. Download it and unzip it there will be two folders. Fire up the terminal. Go the each folder and type:

sudo make install

That will install all the libs, and you should be good to go. If you don't want my libs you can do.

./configure
make
sudo make install

So.. and now it should work

 

[cleo]

OK, I got the stuff from your server. When I go to the folder and type "sudo make install" and give my password, this is what I get:

sudo: make: command not found

I'm lost.

Thank you so much for the handholding, csu.

And if I try ./configure :

loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

 

[johnnowak]

Er, you have the developer tools installed?

 

[csubear]

you are going to need to install developer tools then every will work

 

[cleo]

Ah, ok. Is that a downloadable package, or somewhere on all of my cd's? (I just bought this iBook a few weeks ago and haven't looked in the box since I opened it .)

 

[csubear]

it should be in /Application/Packages i think.. not sure

Do you have an AIM name? That might be easier?