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GLtron for OS X
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Apr 24, 2001, 01:19 PM
 
Someone was excited about glTron recently. I hadn't looked at the game for several months. Considering the UNIX underpinnings of Mac OS X, I figured it wouldn't be too difficult to port the linux version of the game over. Well, mostly everything went okay, but I've run into a couple (actually 7) compile errors. They're all missing header files, except one.
*The First has to do with a missing png lib (called 'libpng') Anyone know where I can get this?
*SDL libraries, I'm pretty sure these are for keyboard control, anything I can replace it with? Or can I find these somewhere?

The problems are undefined things. I was gonna see if I could get the headers taken care of first, and see if they go away.

Anyway, If it's obvious, I'm not a career programmer, I have done some programming and I'd like to get this to work (no doubt the game would be great on OS X.) Any suggestions/help would be welcome.
-Aaron


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Apr 24, 2001, 02:35 PM
 
png is a library for reading/writing images. their web page is:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

SDL is a multi-platform toolkit for dealing with devices. they are at:
http://www.libsdl.org/
     
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Apr 24, 2001, 04:04 PM
 
Don't mean to burst your bubble, but it's been done:
http://mac.tucows.com/preview/58738.html

Maybe you could help with this version?

-Scott

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Apr 24, 2001, 04:19 PM
 
Originally posted by genevish:
Don't mean to burst your bubble, but it's been done:
http://mac.tucows.com/preview/58738.html

Maybe you could help with this version?

-Scott
My Bubble hasn't been burst yet. I'm trying to build a Mac OS X version of the game. So far there have only been classic ports. I actually would have been relieved to know someone else has done it. My programming skill isn't all that hot, and I'm getting stuck..
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There's glTron X at http://pluto.tuwien.ac.at/~sid/
     
   
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