Changes between Version 49 and Version 50 of Mac OS X build instructions

Timestamp:

Sep 1, 2009 4:35:34 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Christian Pötzsch

Comment:

Updated to latest changes

Mac OS X build instructions

@@ -13 +13 @@
 
  * Some things from !MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/). [[BR]]
- '''Note''': On Snow Leopard you have to build !MacPorts yourself. The following build the universal version of !MacPorts & ensure that all ports will be installed as universal version as well.
- {{{
- svn checkout http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/base MacPorts
- cd MacPorts
- ./configure --with-universal-archs="i386 x86_64"
- make
- sudo make install
- sudo /opt/local/bin/port selfupdate
- }}}
- After that add '+universal' to '/opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf'.
-
  After installing !MacPorts, do not forget to add the following two lines to your ~/.profile
 {{{
@@ -29 +18 @@
 export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH
 }}}
- Then perform the following command (see caveat in the next section):
+ Then perform the following command:
 {{{
 sudo port install libidl doxygen
@@ -35 +24 @@
  Doxygen is optional.
 
- * SDL 1.2.12 or later 1.2.x release. [[BR]]
-   http://libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
-
- * Qt/Mac 4.3.x upwards. [[BR]] Add {{{--disable-qt}}} as argument to {{{configure}}} if missing. [[BR]]
+ * Qt/Mac (http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/mac-os-cpp) [[BR]]
+ Carbon 4.3.x upwards for Tiger/Leopard & Snow Leopard 32bit[[BR]]
+ Cocoa 4.5.x upwards for Snow Leopard 64bit[[BR]]
+ '''Note:''' 32bit/64bit means the kernel version not the operation system itself. Check 'uname -m' for i386 & x86_64 respectively.
 
  * Latex ("sudo port install teTeX") for building the documentation
@@ -68 +57 @@
  2. Enter {{{out/darwin.x86/release/dist/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/}}}.
  3. Run {{{./VirtualBox}}}
-
-Alternatively, if you didn't have Qt4 around and there for ./VirtualBox is missing, you can run VBoxBFE like this:
-{{{
-./VBoxBFE -m 32
-}}}
-
-If you have a knoppix ISO or similar hanging around, you can try start it like this:
-{{{
-./VBoxBFE -m 128 -cdrom /Users/name/Desktop/knoppix-3.7.iso -boot d -natdev1 080286000042
-}}}