How to build VBA-M from the SVN code in OS X.

[Squall Leonhart]

Instructions on how to build VBA-M with the wx gui on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite):

1. Download the latest VBA-M source code (r1389 at this time) to a location (for example, ~/vbam)
2. Install the latest Xcode (6.3.1 at this time) from the Apple developer website or Mac App Store. Requires Apple id (free registration).
3. Install the Xcode command line tools by either downloading from the Apple developer website or typing

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     xcode-select --install

     • After it is installed, accept the Xcode license agreement by typing:

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       xcodebuild -license

4. Install MacPorts from the pkg
5. Open a terminal and install the dependencies that VBA-M needs via MacPorts by typing:

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     sudo port install cmake
     sudo port install pkgconfig
     sudo port install libpng
     sudo port install libsdl

6. Download the wxWidgets 3.0.2 source code and extract it to a location like ~/wxWidgets
7. In the terminal, change directory to ~/wxWidgets

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     cd ~/wxWidgets

8. Create a build-wx directory for wxWidgets

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     mkdir build-wx
     cd build-wx

9. Configure wxWidgets for legacy versions of OSX.

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     ../configure --with-macosx-version-min=10.10

10. Build wxWidgets

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      make

11. Check that wx-config has been built and installed correctly.

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      wx-config

      • If wx-config returns an error message of "bad interpreter", open wx-config in a text editor and save the file format as UNIX.

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        vi wx-config
         :s et fileformat=unix
        :wq!

12. Download the SFML 2.2 source code and extract it to a location like ~/SFML
13. In the terminal, change directory to ~/SFML

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      cd ~/SFML

14. Configure SFML using CMake

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      cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE='Release' -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS='true' -DSFML_BUILD_FRAMEWORKS='true'

15. Build SFML

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      make

16. Change to the directory where the VBA-M source files are:

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      cd ~/vbam/trunk

17. Use cmake to configure VBA-M.

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      cmake -DENABLE_WX='true' -DENABLE_SDL='false' -DENABLE_CAIRO='false' -DENABLE_GTK='false' -DENABLE_LINK='true' -DENABLE_FFMPEG='false' -DENABLE_ASM_SCALERS='false' -DSFML_ROOT=''

18. Build VBA-M

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      make

19. Install VBA-M

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      make install

      • If you know how to link SDLMain into the build, let us know so that we can build a command line SDL version of VBA-M.
      • If you know how to create a .dmg package, let us know.