Installing FreeCiv on Apple Silicon

[mkd]

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.

[Elefant]

No problem . You could also try

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 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.

[cazfi]

What confuses me now is that the config.log is now complaining about not finding zlib.pc while checking for gtk+-3.0:

There must be (recursively) a dependency for zlib defined in the gtk+-3.0.pc you are using, causing it to look for zlib.pc. The freeciv configure itself checks for zlib by other means (doesn't require .pc file for zlib)

[cazfi]

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.

See https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv/blob ... ows/ci.yml and https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv/blob ... i-build.sh for reference for how CI does it.

Maybe also https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv/blob ... pbundle.sh is worth checking out.

[mkd]

No problem . You could also try

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 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! It's all compiled and installed now and running fine! Except there's no sound but I am working on that as well...

[mkd]

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 easier with package managers but I have an aversion to macports and homebrew...