Now that the Spring engine is finally coming to Mac, I'd like to submit here a pre-release of SpringLobby for Mac OS X, on which the SL devs and myself have been working on. Future releases will most probably be available elsewhere, but I wanted you guys to give it a try and give your first impressions.
Big thanks to the SL-dev team (especially Koshi and BrainDamage) for guiding me through the first steps into the code, and adding Mac-specific features with or without my input.
DISCLAIMER: Please note that this release should be considered "alpha" stage, and the SpringLobby dev-team should not be held responsible for any Mac OS-related bugs you may find (it may just be me giving them a hard time ). This release is almost entirely built automatically, a few minor tweaks are done manually, so a regular release workflow might be set up in the not-so-far future.
QUICK START GUIDE:
Pre-requisite: Game content and settings are located in the ".spring" directory of your home folder, which is created the first time you run spring (*not* SpringLobby). If you start off fresh, make sure you create the "maps" and "mods" subfolders inside .spring to store your precious data. Note that you can reuse existing content, as this is platform-independent.
Download, unzip and run this If it's your first run, you'll get the traditional welcome message, followed by the preferences window. If not, you just land on the main window.
Either way, open the preferences panel (Edit > Preferences), and go the "Spring" tab. Focus on the third field, called "Spring App Bundle". Click on the "Browse" button and point to your Spring.app bundle (whichever version you wish to use). Finally click "Apply" and close the window. Note that in some cases you might need to re-open the preferences window and re-click on "Apply" (still figuring out why)
Connect (Server > Connect...) and enjoy
CAVEATS (non-exhaustive):
SYNCING: any Spring version starting from the testing releases can be used with SpringLobby and will sync across platforms. This will *not* be the case for the current version (0.82.7.1 as of writing).
GUI: SL is backed by wxWidgets 2.9.x which is 64bits but in a beta stage on Mac. Therefore it may cause serious crashes from time to time (less with recent releases) and may also throw you some (many) warning boxes, which you may freely disregard.
BOTS: the "Add bot" window is initialized with width "1", which makes it tricky to see and expand. But if you do see it (look for a vertical shaded line on your screen), a few clicking attempts on the bottom (right-hand) handle should restore to a decent size.
DL: the torrent system is active, though I have had some trouble downloading maps/mods (curl errors). Manual dls into your "~/.spring/maps" and "~/.spring/mods" is recommended for now
Have fun ! daft
EDIT: the link has been updated with a more recent build made available by koshi in this very thread, which fixes several issues and is a bit more playable.
Last edited by daftalx on 18 Dec 2011, 03:01, edited 1 time in total.
Thanks for this, it's working great for LAN games It does crash, but with 2 players, it seems to generally work and the crashes happen at times that don't prevent us from setting up and playing the game.
For playing on the official servers, it crashes so often that we can't actually get a game going.
Good luck getting it better, let me know if you want more detailed bug reports (but it sounds like you have a fairly good idea of what they are).
My theory is there's simply more going on on the official server, and therefore more to go wrong? It will eventually crash ("critical error") when we're just connecting on a local server to play 2 player games in the same way.
So I tried out a few of the recent builds hosted on http://springlobby.info/macosx/ and found that they all have issues finding the correct libunitsync.dylib . the 0.139 builds seem to omit the dot and set it to libunitsyncdylib, and the 0.(1?)38 build I tried sets it to libunitsyncdylib.bundle. However all of them have significantly fewer wxwidgets message boxes.
Anyway, I would like to echo Bosque in saying that I am grateful that there is a lobby for OS X.
If those are debug asserts they can, and probably should be, disabled via wx's build flags. Otoh, if they are indications of actual problems those should ofc be fixed in SL. So recording those messages might be nice.
I'm trying out the lobby now but I'm running into a problem each time I try to start a single player game. After choosing the game and map and clicking the Start button, the loading screen appears (with no activity). Then it closes and I get the following error:
Code:
19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist. 19:40:48: runtime assertion ( /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/ibattle.cpp:751 ): Map does not exist.
Am I not doing something correctly? Thanks in advance!
I can't seem to change the size of the "add bots" window, no-matter how much random clicking I do. Is there a file somewhere in the bundle that I can mess with to change it to something bigger?
Edit: Also, any way to disable all of these debug messages?
If you start off fresh, make sure you create the "maps" and "mods" subfolders inside .spring to store your precious data. Note that you can reuse existing content, as this is platform-independent.
It is also helpful to copy over the "games" folder
This works a lot better than 6-12 months ago when i got nowhere.
Lobby works. select Game and Map. Add Bot works - saw a 1 pixel line and dragged to make visible. Added bot. Start starts. Get splash screen then --> osx crash and then
Code:
runtime assertion /buildbot/springlobby/koshi-osx/build/src/battle.cpp:751 ): map does not exist.
macbook 5.1 2.4ghz core 2 duo, osx 10.7.3 (seems to be in 64 bit mode)
The error message is only a warning => not vital here. Check in the settings that you have set LoadingMT=0, then report back :)
found LoadingMT=0 and it works!!
Can the settings in spring be sorted in alphabetical order - ignoring case ? i was going through the LO entries and finding nothing until i scrolled lower down.
For reference there are a number of issues with SpringLobby when running under mountain Lion
Quite a few wxwidgets notices and warning dialogs popup at the start, they're not the most user friendly but pressing the right buttons will eventually get you past to the main app
Channel fonts are incredibly small. They appear to be set to the smallest possible size
It is not possible to set unitsyncs location, yet Springlobby repeatedly complains no unitsync was found. The app bundle is present and configured correctly, but Spring Lobby doesn't want to look inside it
Login windows etc regularly spawn behind the main window out of site
The lobby randomly crashed out at some arbitrary point, not sure why
The download page linked in the OP doesn't actually contain any lobby downloads for OS X
Extracting Koshis zip yielded a folder tree with springsettings in it, might be better to just include the app bundle rather than a whole folder tree from /
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). This release is almost entirely built automatically, a few minor tweaks are done manually, so a regular release workflow might be set up in the not-so-far future.
