[Tutorial] Getting started on Mac OS X

[jokoon]

thanks, I'm going to try it.

[DSDeniso]

Hi,

Do anyone know if there exist a tutorial for the latest OS X/Xcode (or maybe create one). This is pretty outdated and I would wish i could start using this. I think that i have compiled it properly, but I'm not sure.

Thanks,
DSDeniso

[Nadro]

In the latest Irrlicht from SVN (trunk) go to sources/Irrlicht/MacOSX and run XCode project. In XCode just select one of examples and build it.

BTW. If you build Irrlicht for MacOSX 10.6+ you don't need Carbon, because we use Cacoa for those OSes.

[Philth]

Half the examples will not compile, lots of warnings when building irr about deprecated calls and such.

Could use some OSX effort. I'm looking for a good cross platform option.

[hendu]

Not sure there is one. Ogre, for example, is really bad on Linux, being mostly Windows-centric. Irr has no dedicated Mac dev, and so on.

[Nadro]

Irr has no dedicated Mac dev, and so on.

It's not true

Please use Irrlicht v1.8.1, all should works fine (except issues with software drivers on OSX 10.9, missing joystick support and external windowID, OSX port of Irrlicht support the same features as eg. Windows or Linux). I'm using Irrlicht most of the time under Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS and in last time Android too without problems. Remember that iOS and Android ports are still under development, so those may not support some features.

[hendu]

You jump around all systems, so I don't count you as "dedicated Mac"

If there was a dedicated mac dev, there would never be mac build failures, and other small mac bugs could be immediately addressed. That's not the case now.