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If following that specific method is not important to you, but you want to get freeciv working by any means, I would recommend trying using homebrew. That's what our CI (continuous integration) tests to be working after every change that gets in. I understand and I get that it is usually much easie...

No problem :D. You could also try jhbuild build freeciv That should build freeciv and it's dependencies, according to the jhbuild readme, but I don't know if freeciv is compatible with the automation tools. Actually, running ~/.new_local/bin/jhbuild shell and then ./configure in that shell worked! ...

I see, I really appreciate your help, especially given that you are not a Mac user. I wish I had a Windows where things would be much easier, I presume... At the same time I enjoy learning all this stuff about compiling gnu packages manually.

What confuses me now is that the config.log is now complaining about not finding zlib.pc while checking for gtk+-3.0: configure:32281: checking for sdl2-config configure:32318: result: no configure:32330: checking for SDL2.framework configure:32803: checking for which client to compile:... configure...

Reading the instructions, it seems that it provides a virtual environment for building programs. So just running ./configure will not have access to the build libraries. You probably need to run something like $ alias jhbuild="PATH=.new_local/bin:$PATH jhbuild" , then jhbuild ./configure ...

Ooops, I am sorry. It seems I had an editor that had the older version of the log open. I attached the most recent one.

edit: wrong file was uploaded by accident.

I am trying to install FreeCiv on Apple Silicon and I am running into the following issue: - I installed GTK(3?) following these steps: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK/OSX/Building - GTK was installed in /Users/myuser/gtk/inst When I run the freeciv ./configure script I get an error that none of...