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== We need YOU == | == We need YOU == | ||
If you have a Mac, and want to help spring, make a binary package. Lots of people tried, some of them failed, some succeeded, some of them even send patches, but noone stayed long enought to make one. Thus, it should not be that hard to actually do it. | If you have a Mac, and want to help spring, make a binary package. Lots of people tried, some of them failed, some succeeded, some of them even send patches, but noone stayed long enought to make one. | ||
Thus, it should not be that hard to actually do it. All libraries used by spring are available on OS X, and beside some (or maybe even none) compile errors, spring will most likely compile and work fine. | |||
If you need help, post on forum or ask in the lobby (channel #sy). | If you need help, post on forum or ask in the lobby (channel #sy). | ||
Revision as of 21:38, 12 March 2009
Whats up with spring on OS X
There has been a working, compiled universal binary for Macintosh OSX 10.4. However, this is an outdated version, and development has ceased since the release.
Because a lack of Mac developers (or maybe the lac of Macs for the developers) there is no Mac binary for any recent version of spring. Various people have managed to get it to compile and run on OS X, and we recieved some patches, but no one ever created a binary packet.
We need YOU
If you have a Mac, and want to help spring, make a binary package. Lots of people tried, some of them failed, some succeeded, some of them even send patches, but noone stayed long enought to make one. Thus, it should not be that hard to actually do it. All libraries used by spring are available on OS X, and beside some (or maybe even none) compile errors, spring will most likely compile and work fine. If you need help, post on forum or ask in the lobby (channel #sy).
Notes
Network sync presently restricts play to between computers of the same architecture type. Cross architecture network support is being worked on but will have to wait till there's hardware to work with.
Lobby informations for OSX are old & outdated, someone please update this page and the lobby link with fresh informations. <Brain Damage>
Due to the lack of information about a working lobby, the only sure way play between two computers must be initiated manually via start scripts and/or command line.
See the Lobby_on_MacOSX page for details and development progress
