Topic: installing LaserBoy on OSX 10.8

[meeble]

Hello,

With a little bit of work, I was able to install LaserBoy on my Mac running 10.8.2.  I told James that I would post my step by step process here in case anyone else may find it helpful.

1.  Installl XCode:
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

2.  Once XCode is installed, open XCode, go to Preferences, go to the Downloads tab, then install Command Line Tools.

3.  Download and install the MacPorts package installer for Mountain Lion:
http://www.macports.org/install.php

4.  Open up a Terminal window and install SDL with this command:
sudo port install libsdl

5.  Install boost:
sudo port install boost

6.  Not sure if this is necessary, but while installing boost, it may ask you to run this command:
sudo port select --set python python27

7.  I had to modify the Makefile.osx to compile correctly.  Make sure line 8 looks like this:
LIBS     = -L/opt/local/lib -lSDL -lSDLMain -lboost_system-mt -lboost_filesystem-mt -pg -g3 -framework Cocoa

8.  Go to the LaserBoy src directory and issue this command:
make -f Makefile.osx

9.  After compiling, go to the LaserBoy directory, and run the app from the command line with:
./LaserBoy 1024 768

(the numbers represent the window size that you want LB to open into)

[James]

Hello meeble!

Welcome to The LaserBoy Forum!

It was really nice chatting with you today.

Thank you for doing all that in such short order and posting about it here.

That really made my day!

James. 

[meeble]

no problem, James.  Thanks for helping me out.  I'm sure you'll be hearing a lot from me over the next couple weeks. 

[James]

It looks like you found and installed the multi-threading version of boost, hence the difference:

-lboost_system-mt -lboost_filesystem-mt

If it works for you it works for me!

James.   

[BlinkenLights]

I had to remove the -pg lines to get it to compile and open, however now it opens a blank screen. Still working on that