So yeah it’s been a while since I pushed out a build for OS X, and well I did a fresh install of OS X 10.10 on my MacBook, and this took a while to compile. Â And I ran into my favorite OSS dependancy of glib2 which needs pkg-config to build, and pkg-config needs glib2.
I hate this so much…
So for those who want it, here is the build that I’ve only tested on 10.10 .. And I only compiled the i386 emulator. Â And here is the larger archive with the rest of the emulators.
I’ve included the dylib’s that I needed in /usr/local/lib … And of course you’ll need LibSDL 1.2‘s framework installed.
It runs Coherent!
And yes, I built it to run Coherent, and it runs pretty well. Â The boot time fsck didn’t take 5 minutes to complete.
How did you manage to build glib2? I think about playing with building QEMU for OSX tonight, so I guess I’m gonna have a lot of fun…
It’s very …. complicated. lol from my older notes you need to get pkg-config building, and to do that you need a version with an internal glib… use the flags: configure ––with-internal-glib
I was almost going to document the build steps last night, but then I thought the world at large doesn’t care as they use some package/brew thing and I think I’m the last end user on the planet that builds by hand.
If you still have issues I can shuffle my /usr/local out of the way and re-build. Maybe I should have those steps documented anyways.
Thanks for the hints! For now I went for a quick and dirty solution by using macports. One dependency makes me wonder: pixman. I build QEMU without SDL, GTK, Cocoa and VNC, and still it needs pixman. Strange.
I assume (haha) that it’s how the internal rendering is done, before it’s sent out to SDL or Cocoa… Of course I could be 100% wrong.
$ brew install qemu
Why make your life unnecessarily hard? For pkg-config, try –with-internal-glib.
because I’m old and I dislike magic. Also I usually like to tweak stuff, which any of this magic stuff will no doubt prevent.