Build on Mac OS 10.13

[AussieSusan]

I have an iMac (running MacOS 10.13 - High Sierra; it is a mid-2011 model and so cannot run anything later (*)) and I was wanting to build axpbox natively. (I've built in on a Linux 20.04 VM under Parallels). The compiler tools are as up-to=date as they can be.

Is there a specific list of the prerequisites and how to install them (I'm assuming HomeBrew is used but there seem to be issues - e.g. SDL is installed but the 'cmake' step cannot find it)?

When I try, the 'cmake' step works but the 'make' step fails almost immediately with lots of errors (mainly of the type that indicates a significant mis-match between how the code is written and what the compiler expects).

Has anyone actually does this on MacOS and can guide me?

Thanks

Susan

(*) Planning to get one of the Apple Silicon iMacs when they are available. (Sorry if this request is not appropriate for this area but I can't find any other user forum - pointers please if there is one.)

[TheFausap]

Hello,

I can try to help you, with the steps I used on my MacBook (10.13.6 and Xcode 10.1). First of all, I used brew to install all the needed libraries. I didn't try building with the SDL, but this is something I will try soon. Anyway, provided that you created a build directory where to run cmake, here is the command used to build axpbox

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" -D CMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -D CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -D CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -I/usr/local/opt/libpcap/include" -D CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT="-L/usr/local/opt/libpcap/lib" ../

regards, Fausto

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 5:20 AM AussieSusan [email protected] wrote:

I have an iMac (running MacOS 10.13 - High Sierra; it is a mid-2011 model and so cannot run anything later (*)) and I was wanting to build axpbox natively. (I've built in on a Linux 20.04 VM under Parallels). The compiler tools are as up-to=date as they can be.

Is there a specific list of the prerequisites and how to install them (I'm assuming HomeBrew is used but there seem to be issues - e.g. SDL is installed but the 'cmake' step cannot find it)?

When I try, the 'cmake' step works but the 'make' step fails almost immediately with lots of errors (mainly of the type that indicates a significant mis-match between how the code is written and what the compiler expects).

Has anyone actually does this on MacOS and can guide me?

Thanks

Susan

(*) Planning to get one of the Apple Silicon iMacs when they are available. (Sorry if this request is not appropriate for this area but I can't find any other user forum - pointers please if there is one.)

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[RaymiiOrg]

I don't have a Mac myself but I did manage to install OS X 10.15 into a virtualbox VM. This is how the compilation looks for me, both the commands and their output.

I installed cmake and git via homebrew (brew install cmake git), nothing else. XCode was installed via the App Store.

remy@Remys-MacBook-Pro ~ % git clone https://github.com/lenticularis39/axpbox

Output:

Cloning into 'axpbox'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 158, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (158/158), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (118/118), done.
remote: Total 788 (delta 61), reused 86 (delta 39), pack-reused 630
Receiving objects: 100% (788/788), 1.07 MiB | 1.34 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (493/493), done.


remy@Remys-MacBook-Pro ~ % cd axpbox 

Create build folder:

remy@Remys-MacBook-Pro axpbox % mkdir build

Run cmake on OS X:

remy@Remys-MacBook-Pro build % cmake .. -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" -D CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++" 

Output:

-- The C compiler identification is AppleClang 12.0.0.12000032
-- The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 12.0.0.12000032
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
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-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
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-- Detecting CXX compile features
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-- Looking for pthread.h - found
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE  
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-- pcap found. Networking support enabled
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:114 (message):
  sdl not found.  Building without SDL graphics support


CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:120 (message):
  x11 not found.  Building without x11 graphics support


-- Found Git: /usr/local/bin/git (found version "2.29.2") 
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-- C++ compiler flags  : -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -O3 -march=native -DNDEBUG
-- C compiler flags    :  -O3
-- Linker flags        :   
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /Users/remy/axpbox/build

Make:

remy@Remys-MacBook-Pro build % make    

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Compiled successfully:

remy@Remys-MacBook-Pro build % ./axpbox 
AXPBox Alpha Emulator (commit 7ca7af04529c11eaf5462b2eb210f9d68710f6ed)
Usage: ./axpbox run|configure <options>

Not sure if I can get 10.13 to install inside a virtualbox VM.

I see @TheFausap has raised bug #44 in which he states that there are problems with SDL on OS X so you maybe could try to build without SDL.

Could you maybe attach the output during the build steps to the issue, including cmake and it's reported compiler versions?

[lenticularis39]

(Sorry if this request is not appropriate for this area but I can't find any other user forum - pointers please if there is one.)

No, there is no other forum - feel free to post questions here.

[lenticularis39]

The only Macs I have are PowerPC-based, since I'm not interested in Intel Macs (may get an ARM one in the future), and the earliest version macOS-Simple-KVM supports is Mojave, so getting a High Sierra VM is non-trivial. I could try to make a PowerPC/Intel universal binaries that should run on macOS up to High Sierra.

[TheFausap]

The only Macs I have are PowerPC-based, since I'm not interested in Intel Macs (may get an ARM one in the future), and the earliest version macOS-Simple-KVM supports is Mojave, so getting a High Sierra VM is non-trivial. I could try to make a PowerPC/Intel universal binaries that should run on macOS up to High Sierra.

I suppose the idea of a universal binary is a great one! :)

[lenticularis39]

I suppose the idea of a universal binary is a great one! :)

It's definitely interesting, but it wouldn't be of much use nowadays, since macOS Catalina and higher doesn't support 32 bit binaries and I suppose not many people want to run AXPbox on a PowerPC Mac. I'll see how it goes once I have a GCC capable of building CMake 3 (building it right now - it takes some time to build GCC on the 7447A).

[AussieSusan]

@Fausto - thank you so much - the missing magic was those pre-processor declarations I think - using them resulted in a successful build. @Raymii - that is pretty much the log I got using the commands suggested by @Fausto. My problem now is connecting the console but I want to see if that is a known issue before either starting a new thread or continuing this one Susan

[TheFausap]

Susan, here is the trick: use xterm (installing X11 Quartz). Uncompress the zip file in the same dir where you have the emulator. This is also a nice VT100 emulation, for the EDIT under VMS. The script calls xterm. In the es40.cfg use these entries

./vmsterm.sh -port 21264 and ./vmsterm.sh -port 21265

If you run everything in a xterm will be smoother than the standard mac os terminal app.

vmsterm.zip

[AussieSusan]

@TheFausap - thank you so much. That is working perfectly. Susan

[shawnmbradley]

Susan, here is the trick: use xterm (installing X11 Quartz). Uncompress the zip file in the same dir where you have the emulator. This is also a nice VT100 emulation, for the EDIT under VMS. The script calls xterm. In the es40.cfg use these entries

./vmsterm.sh -port 21264 and ./vmsterm.sh -port 21265

If you run everything in a xterm will be smoother than the standard mac os terminal app.

vmsterm.zip

This resolved all of my issues trying to get the emulator to start up after building the axpbox binary.