VisualBoyAdvance-M

Posted: **Tue Jan 05, 2016 2:24 pm**

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

Download the latest VBA-M source code (r1389 at this time) to a location (for example, ~/vbam)
Install the latest Xcode (6.3.1 at this time) from the Apple developer website or Mac App Store. Requires Apple id (free registration).
Install the Xcode command line tools by either downloading from the Apple developer website or typing
- Code: Select all
```
xcode-select --install
```
  - After it is installed, accept the Xcode license agreement by typing:
  - Code: Select all
```
xcodebuild -license
```
Install MacPorts from the pkg

Open a terminal and install the dependencies that VBA-M needs via MacPorts by typing:

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

Download the wxWidgets 3.0.2 source code and extract it to a location like ~/wxWidgets
In the terminal, change directory to ~/wxWidgets
- Code: Select all
```
cd ~/wxWidgets
```
Create a build-wx directory for wxWidgets
- Code: Select all
```
mkdir build-wx
cd build-wx
```
Configure wxWidgets for legacy versions of OSX.
- Code: Select all
```
../configure --with-macosx-version-min=10.10
```
Build wxWidgets
- Code: Select all
```
make
```
Check that wx-config has been built and installed correctly.
- Code: Select all
```
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.
  - Code: Select all
```
vi wx-config
 :s et fileformat=unix
:wq!
```
Download the SFML 2.2 source code and extract it to a location like ~/SFML
In the terminal, change directory to ~/SFML
- Code: Select all
```
cd ~/SFML
```

Configure SFML using CMake

Code: Select all

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

Build SFML
- Code: Select all
```
make
```
Change to the directory where the VBA-M source files are:
- Code: Select all
```
cd ~/vbam/trunk
```

Use cmake to configure VBA-M.

Code: Select all

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=''

Build VBA-M
- Code: Select all
```
make
```
Install VBA-M
- Code: Select all
```
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.

VisualBoyAdvance-M

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

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