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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.

No problem . You could also try 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.

mkd wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2024 5:59 amWhat 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)

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.

Elefant wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2024 4:48 pm 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...

cazfi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2024 9:57 pm 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...