Vavoom on Mac OS X

[Duck Man]

I love this project and I have had it working on Windows and Linux but I thought it would be cool to see if it ran on my mac (I like having options... lol). I got all the libraries to compile fine, but vavoom stops with an error on the first thing it tries to compile. So thats a bummer. Basically this is just a post saying a mac version would be used by at least one person.

[Janis Legzdinsh]

What's the error message?

[Duck Man]

http://personal.piratehook.com/dm/stuff/error.txt
I am on a intel based mac running Mac OS X 10.5.1

[scen]

Retry using

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./configure --disable-asm <other-options>


[Duck Man]

Now I get a different error. Has anyone gotten it to compile on a mac before?
http://personal.piratehook.com/dm/stuff/error2.txt

[Firebrand]

Has anyone gotten it to compile on a mac before?

It seems you are the first one trying to, but I think it could lead to making the game work on Macs too , so don't give up, heh!

[Janis Legzdinsh]

It seams you forgot to do this:

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make clean

[Duck Man]

Wow. I can't believe I have never ran into a problem like that before... GREAT NEWS!!! It compiled and installed fine. It even runs until u try to start an actual game... lol. So if you try to make a new game, it freezes after u select the difficulty. And then the console gets this:

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/usr/local/bin/vavoom: line 5: 10015 Bus error           "/usr/local/bin/vavoom.i686" $*

As a side note, I get a warning as well while everything is working.

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2008-02-05 13:09:24.489 vavoom.i686[10015:351b] Warning once: This application, or a library it uses, is using NSQuickDrawView, which has been deprecated. Apps should cease use of QuickDraw and move to Quartz.

[scen]

The best way to track these problems is to start the game with the -debug parameter, and report the contents (at least the last 10-20 rows) of debug.txt (i guess that you can find it in /yourhomedir/.vavoom/debug.txt)

[Duck Man]

oddly that isn't working. There is no .vavoom directory in my home and I even searched the entire system for a debug.txt file and there isn't one. Here is the report generated by the os: http://personal.piratehook.com/dm/stuff/error3.txt Not sure how useful it is.

[Janis Legzdinsh]

It looks like it fails because it can't create files. After checking code I remembered something. Try to run Vavoom with -savedir ${HOME}/.vavoom parameter.

[Duck Man]

IT WORKS!!! So I guess I have to list everything I did now... I will try to make it look as nice as I can. Keep in mind I am remembering most this off the top of my head so if something isn't exact, I blame you. I should also mention that I have experience with linux and this is a extra computer I have so I am not afraid to break crap. So if you are just some random person wondering off the street, do this at your own risk.
1. Download the Source
I stated just downloading the source with the hopes that a simple make and make install would do the trick.
http://vavoom-engine.com/download.php
2. Dependancies
Sadly I was mistaken and when I ran ./configure it kept telling me I needed random stuff. I expected this but was hoping for the best. Here is a list that I can remember:
Apple Developer Tools: http://developer.apple.com/tools/download
- this is required for allegro and is more importantly where u get gcc.
Allegro http://alleg.sourceforge.net/wip.html
- You want allegro-4.2.2.tar.gz
- Then I followed this page (http://alleg.sourceforge.net/stabledocs ... acosx.html) which I will summarize.

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chmod +x fix.sh
./fix.sh macosx
make
sudo make install

libpng http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
- the normal ./configure && make && sudo make install. I don't think there was anything fancy.
libjpeg http://www.ijg.org/
- This one was different. I used http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/38

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cp /usr/share/libtool/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.guess .
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
make
sudo make install
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a

3. The making!
Pretty normal except for the required option on the configure.

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./configure --disable-asm
make
sudo make install

That should do it.
4. Running

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vavoom -iwaddir ~/wads -doom -savedir $HOME/.vavoom

I store my wads all in one folder so I need the -iwaddir. Im running doom in this example. The last option is required. It creates a .vavoom in ur home directory and stores everything it needs in there. You should be able to move your wads into it afterwards just like the other platforms.
5. Finish Up
I haven't done a large amount of testing or anything. But it seems to run fine. If I missed anything please let me know. Thanks to Jenis, scen, and Firebrand.

[Duck Man]

Messing around a little more and it crashed. I think it is audio based.
http://personal.piratehook.com/dm/stuff/error4.txt

[Firebrand]

It's cool that you made it work fine!

As for the error, it could be something related to the renderer, I can detect these as error lines:

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11  vavoom.i686                      0x0002d73f VSoftwareDrawer::CacheSkySurface(surface_t*, VTexture*, VTexture*, float, float) + 319
12  vavoom.i686                      0x0001ff00 VSoftwareDrawer::DrawSurfaces() + 352
13  vavoom.i686                      0x0002024b VSoftwareDrawer::WorldDrawing() + 683
14  vavoom.i686                      0x000bb984 VRenderLevel::RenderWorld(refdef_t const*) + 260
15  vavoom.i686                      0x000c4981 VRenderLevel::RenderPlayerView() + 353
16  vavoom.i686                      0x000c4b0b R_RenderPlayerView() + 43
17  vavoom.i686                      0x000fecf8 SCR_Update() + 200
18  vavoom.i686                      0x00052ece Host_Frame() + 238
19  vavoom.i686                      0x00142941 _mangled_main(int, char**) + 225
20  vavoom.i686                      0x00170b19 call_user_main + 41

Not sure if this is the problem thought .