Mac Binary Release

[BlueTemplar]

Remember that you have a settings list on the first page of this thread...

[AF]

Remember dynamic water generates random lines on a geforce 8 when land is on screen

[Peet]

Remember dynamic water generates random lines on a geforce 8 when land is on screen

Unless you replace the shader with the fixed one

[AF]

is that in the svn or is there a download link you can conveniently place for the average joe?

[Tobi]

SVN

[Peet]

is that in the svn or is there a download link you can conveniently place for the average joe?

Yes. It's in the svn, and there's a link in the H&B announcement post thing.

[LordMatt]

Here is the fix.

[Echrei]

In windows, the settings are stored in the registry, in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SJ\Spring iirc. I highly doubt dynamic water will work on a macbook pro though - it only works on GF6,7s and 8s, only runs acceptably fast on the higher-end cards of those series.

I have a Geforce 8600GT with 512MB VRAM in my laptop. /water 2 worked. Thanks! I had it on water 3. It runs well, but now I need to do the fix.

[Vadi]

I have the same card. Let me know how the fix goes for you...

[waxbanks]

aloha all -

many thanks for the hard work getting the mac build working - i've missed TA ever since i ditched my old PC in the late 90's and am glad to have another crack at it. (and i dreamed of first-person mode back then. bravo!)

question: how would i get a single-player game going against a skirmish AI on the mac? i can't seem to find this information on the wiki or in the forums, which means either i'm retarded or this is a straightforward question as yet unanswered. i don't have a lobby running, btw.

(leopard, intel, etc.)

[jackoverfull]

you need to prepare a startup script.

try with this one.
modifing it should be easy, just launch the game from the terminal (drop it's icon on a terminale window, delete the ending space, then add "/Contents/MacOS/Spring " without quotes) with the file as an argument (drop it after the space).

[koshi]

It would be really great if one of you who is knowledgeable about building apps on Mac would come to talk to us springlobby devs on irc in #springlobby @ freenode or #springlobby in lobby to fix the few remaining issues to get SpringLobby fully working on Mac.

Commander make some progress a while ago, but it seems he's currently busy otherwise.

[Merefield]

When I try to launch this, I get a black screen, immediately after which it bombs with a "bus error." Any suggestions for troubleshooting?

(Macbook, Leopard 10.5.2...)

I get this too (same platform Macbook, Leopard 10.5.2 ...):

Last login: Sun Apr 27 00:41:18 on console
james-bonds-macbook:~ jbond$ /Applications/Spring/Spring.app /Applications/Spring/newx.txt
-bash: /Applications/Spring/Spring.app: is a directory
james-bonds-macbook:~ jbond$ /Applications/Spring/Spring.app/Contents/MacOS/Spring /Applications/Spring/newx.txt
Bus error
james-bonds-macbook:~ jbond$

Is this related to the security patch Apple released which relates to Position Independent Executables?:

"I saw this in the ld man page

├óÔé¼┬Ø -pie This makes a special kind of main executable that is position independent (PIE). On Mac OS X 10.5, the OS will load a PIE at a ran-
dom address each time it is executed. You cannot create a PIE from .o files compiled with -mdynamic-no-pic. That means the codegen
is less optimal, but the address randomization adds some security.
├óÔé¼┼ô

and then I noticed that my gcc -v doesn├óÔé¼Ôäót include ld anywhere in it, must less have anything related to this -pie option├óÔé¼┬ª"

(from http://www.matasano.com/log/981/a-round ... -features/)

See impact to some other software and explanation here: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/03/ ... ility-fix/

[jackoverfull]

the second command should be right...

what if you launch spring without the startup script? it launches?

[Echrei]

I have the same card. Let me know how the fix goes for you...

The fix worked fine, I put the file in a folder called shaders in the Resources folder in Spring. Water looks awesome now. Works on the Mac and Win version.

[Merefield]

the second command should be right...

what if you launch spring without the startup script? it launches?

Nope, unfortunately i still get "bus error"

Last login: Sun Apr 27 10:29:23 on console
james-bonds-macbook:~ jbond$ /Applications/Spring/Spring.app/Contents/MacOS/Spring
Bus error
james-bonds-macbook:~ jbond$

[jackoverfull]

odd.
you should try to reinstall it. try also an older release to see if it works. what version of the system are you running?

[Merefield]

odd.
you should try to reinstall it. try also an older release to see if it works. what version of the system are you running?

System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C7010)

[Echrei]

odd.
you should try to reinstall it. try also an older release to see if it works. what version of the system are you running?

System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C7010)

I have the same OS. You have the latest build he released with at least one map and one mod installed in the folders? I wonder if it's the Intel GMA card.

[jackoverfull]

I wonder if it's the Intel GMA card.

but in that case it should display a dialog with "unsupported graphics" or something like that (if it's unsupported), decisively not a "Bus error"├óÔé¼┬ª