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lordcooper

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DF Mac problem
« on: May 20, 2010, 05:19:11 am »
Tried putting DF on my mums mac and the bloody thing is trying to open the .exe with mail  :o

Any ideas whats going on?
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Re: DF Mac problem
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2010, 05:42:53 am »
Apparently Toady didn't knew better and named both the Linux and Mac executable dwarfort.exe as if they were PE executable (neither ELF or Mach-O executable require or should have any extension), you should start in on Mac using the sh script df located along side the executable.
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Re: DF Mac problem
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2010, 06:09:35 am »
sh script?

Sorry, I've always used windows and have no clue whatsoever with macs
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Re: DF Mac problem
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2010, 07:55:03 am »
in the "df_osx" folder, there's a file named just "df", that's the one you have to double click; it will launch the Terminal.app, that will in turn launch df.
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Re: DF Mac problem
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2010, 09:05:07 am »
and if it opens the df file in a program other than terminal, right click and do 'open with' and select terminal.

Someone has brewed up a application launcher for DF, in the d## thread. I'm sure he'll update it to DF31, and then we can go back to point and clicking on shiny icons.
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Re: DF Mac problem
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2010, 05:32:52 pm »
Damn, I'm on a University computer and Terminal access is restricted. Guess I'll have to continue to wait!
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Re: DF Mac problem
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2010, 06:23:58 pm »
Actually, the .exe ending was my doing.

..what? It's an executable, it's not the executable you're supposed to run, therefore it's .exe. What makes people think .exe means PE executables, anyway?
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Re: DF Mac problem
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2010, 10:07:02 pm »
Habit mostly.

Need to make the df stand out more. DWARF_FORTRESS_LAUNCH would probably get the clue across ;)
An app bundle would do wonders.
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Re: DF Mac problem
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2010, 11:17:42 pm »
For the record, my mac doesn't open df with the terminal, it just gets annoyed and does nothing.

But Dwarf Fortress works perfectly well if I open the terminal (under utilities in Apps), cd over to the correct directory, and just type "sh df" manually.

It took me a while to figure out, so I figure it needs to be posted more often.
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