Mac OSX demo wont launch! Help

[Cameroon]

To be honest, I don't know how anyone on a Mac is running this (unless they also have the SDL framework elsewhere and it's getting pulled in).

The console (Applications -> Utilities -> Console for those who don't know its there) shows error Messages from apps and such. This is the error that's spit out when DOM2 tries to launch:

dyld: /Users/username/Downloads/dom2demo_osx Folder/dominions2demo.app/Contents/MacOS/dominions2 can't open library: @executable_path/../Frameworks/SDL.framework/Versions/A/SDL (No such file or directory, errno = 2)

Basically what that says is that the framework SDL should be inside the application bundle. Well, it's not. The demo that's distributed is missing that framework at least, and possibly others (can't tell since the app can't get past not having that framework). It looks like a copy phase was missed during build. I'm a Mac OS X developer, btw, so I'm not just blathering on .

Seriously hope someone's reading this post 'cause I'd really love to play the demo but obviousy we Mac Users aren't likely to get anywhere if the SDL framework isn't available for DOM2 to get at.

[Edit]
Just after I posted this, I saw someone mentioning that stuffit was crashing. Perhaps the archive is corrupt and thus not everything is getting unpacked as it should be. So maybe the copy phase worked but the archiving didn't

[ October 29, 2003, 03:33: Message edited by: Cameroon ]

[st.patrik]

Originally posted by Cameroon:
To be honest, I don't know how anyone on a Mac is running this (unless they also have the SDL framework elsewhere and it's getting pulled in).

The console (Applications -> Utilities -> Console for those who don't know its there) shows error Messages from apps and such. This is the error that's spit out when DOM2 tries to launch:

dyld: /Users/username/Downloads/dom2demo_osx Folder/dominions2demo.app/Contents/MacOS/dominions2 can't open library: @executable_path/../Frameworks/SDL.framework/Versions/A/SDL (No such file or directory, errno = 2)

Basically what that says is that the framework SDL should be inside the application bundle. Well, it's not. The demo that's distributed is missing that framework at least, and possibly others (can't tell since the app can't get past not having that framework). It looks like a copy phase was missed during build. I'm a Mac OS X developer, btw, so I'm not just blathering on .

Seriously hope someone's reading this post 'cause I'd really love to play the demo but obviousy we Mac Users aren't likely to get anywhere if the SDL framework isn't available for DOM2 to get at.

[Edit]
Just after I posted this, I saw someone mentioning that stuffit was crashing. Perhaps the archive is corrupt and thus not everything is getting unpacked as it should be. So maybe the copy phase worked but the archiving didn't

Maybe why it's working for me is that I downloaded something like this several months ago to help with Dom I, so I could have had it in place. In case anyone doesn't know where to get a Version of SDL for mac, Illwinter posted a link on their news page back in April: www.illwinter.com/index.html

[ October 29, 2003, 04:02: Message edited by: st.patrik ]

[Stavetor]

Originally posted by st.patrik:
Maybe why it's working for me is that I downloaded something like this several months ago to help with Dom I, so I could have had it in place. In case anyone doesn't know where to get a Version of SDL for mac, Illwinter posted a link on their news page back in April: www.illwinter.com/index.html

I just got the latest Version of SDL tonight and the demo still doesn't work, although now what happens is that it starts up for a few seconds and then crashes. I checked on the console and the error message I got was:

NÂgot gick fel!
loadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga

Based off this and the fact that Stuffit crashed yet again after a second download, I think Cameroon may be right. Maybe the archive is corrupt? Although that doesn't explain why it seems to work alright for St.patrik and (I'm assuming) others...

As an aside, anyone know what "NÂgot gick fel!" means?

[Cameroon]

Originally posted by Stavetor:
I just got the latest Version of SDL tonight and the demo still doesn't work, although now what happens is that it starts up for a few seconds and then crashes. I checked on the console and the error message I got was:

NÂgot gick fel!
loadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga

Based off this and the fact that Stuffit crashed yet again after a second download, I think Cameroon may be right. Maybe the archive is corrupt? Although that doesn't explain why it seems to work alright for St.patrik and (I'm assuming) others...

As an aside, anyone know what "NÂgot gick fel!" means?

I downloaded SDL this morning. The installer informs you that you can install it in /Library/Frameworks (the system framework directory) or in your home Framework directory ~/Library/Frameworks (you need to create the Frameworks folder in ~/Library if it doesn't already exist). I decided to go with ~/Library/Framework option because, honestly, I didn't want it global to the system until I knew it was going to do something useful.

DOM2 fired right up. There are definitely some packaging issues, or else Illwinter is indicating that the Users need to download SDL to play the game (but that seems awful silly ).

For those who are having trouble with the game
- download the Runtime Library of SDL for Mac OS X (you can find the link here: http://www.illwinter.com/index.html )

- then either create the Frameworks folder in your home Library, or follow the default and let it install into /Library/Frameworks (you'll need sys admin privs for the default option)

Those are the steps I followed and I got a pretty DOM2 start screen

For what it's worth, I'm on a G5 with 10.3.

Hope they fix their packaging issues and I hope those having difficulty with the demo can get into the game with the above help.

This definitely sucks for Illwinter though, lots of Mac Users are gonna download the demo and have it not launch and chuck it.

[Johan K]

Ooops, seems like we have missed an important part of the demo installation instructions. The reason SDL isn't included is to make the download smaller and people who have played other SDL games (like dominions I) already has it installed.

You need to install the SDL lib before running Dominions. It can be found here:
http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
Download runtime for MacOSX.

The dom2demo_osx.tar.gz file should be 73730190 bytes large.

Sorry for the missing instructions!

[ October 29, 2003, 17:23: Message edited by: Johan K ]

[HJ]

Originally posted by Johan K:
You need to install the SDL lib before running Dominions.

Johan , I sent you a reply through pm.

[Vodalian]

I've finally got the demo running in a window with an amazing frame rate of 1 fps. However, there is one serious problem left. My mouse "cursor" seems to be moving up when I move the mouse down and down when I move the mouse up.

[ October 29, 2003, 18:24: Message edited by: Vodalian ]