Fixing ogre v1.7.3 build on MacOS X 10.6

[marin.saric@…]

I applied the fix suggested by mmoll in ticket #30688 and ogre built successfuly on my 10.6.8 machine.

After adding the SDK root to the Portfile, things build without errors.

[marin.saric@…]

The patch suggested by mmoll to fix the SDK root

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Setting macosx_deployment_target should be irrelevant, since MacPorts base already sets that for you.

Setting configure.sdkroot is presumably the relevant part, since without that, I get:

error: There is no SDK with the name or path '/'

But surely then the problem is not unique to Snow Leopard; surely Lion, Leopard and Tiger Intel users would see the same error; MacPorts only sets configure.sdkroot on Tiger PowerPC.

I wonder what is generating the error message; it does not appear in the ogre source. I think it's something in Xcode itself. It's confusing to me then that we haven't run into this problem with other ports.

[marin.saric@…]

This file is the only file that attempts "multiple inheritance" (kind of) by specifying two PortGroup directives, one after the other.

I am getting this MacPort in proper shape right now. I have ported an important dependency, OIS, so that the Samples can be tried out.

The OIS port is in ticket #31974.

I converted the project to a cmake only project. Right now, it's in DYLD hell. In a sandbox it builds, uses OIS and runs Samples more/less correctly at a high fps.

I am working to port every part of it properly and to support both the dynamic and static linking variants.

[marin.saric@…]

Status report:

The OIS port is now checked in as r87081 (thanks RyanDesign!)

I've gotten static building to work. Even though the generated library is huge @ ~350MiB, the Sample application which pulls in just about everything you can think of ends up being at a much more acceptable 18MiB.

The current port applies patches that force the Unix-style RPATHs and even hardcodes one of the directories in macUtils.cpp . This effectively removes the ability to ship an Application Bundle that runs outside of MacPorts. I am trying to remedy that.

I am aiming for light patches that do not break the functionality offered by the official non-MacPorts MacOS X distribution. I'll probably have something this weekend..

[marin.saric@…]

Reposting from ticket #30688:

I submitted a new static-linking-based port of OGRE as a ticket #32302.

The new port builds without XCode and runs on MacOS X 10.6 and MacOS X 10.7 . I am using my new port in a Computer Vision/Robotics application where it also interacts with OpenCV and even successfully links itself into a MATLAB plugin(!).

The new port's name is ogre-static, because it cannot as of now coexist with the currently present ogre and it is not a simple variant.

[marin@…]

Resolved by #32302