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 (http://www.mattdm.org/icebreaker/), 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. :D

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? :confused:

[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? :confused:

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?