BUILDING THE UR-QUAN MASTERS ON MAC OS X ---------------------------------------- Starting with 0.7.1, it is possible to build and run The Ur-Quan Masters with the brew system (https://brew.sh). This is much easier than building a redistributable package, and personal builds should probably rely on this. See the main INSTALL file for instructions there. To create a .app file that will work on most Macs, you will need to create an app bundle with custom copies of its libraries. To do *that*, you will to build most of them yourself: SDL2: https://www.libsdl.org The development libraries for macOS available here already work fine and do not need any extra work. Ogg Vorbis: http://www.xiph.org You will need to build frameworks out of libogg and libvorbis, which will be named Ogg.framework and Vorbis.framework. libpng: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html You will ultimately need to create libpng.framework. These frameworks should be built as "archives" in Xcode with a macOS deployment target of 10.6. Copy the framework directories out of the archives into /Library/Frameworks. With these in place, copy the content packages that you intend to undle with the app (at minimum content, but potentially also voice and 3DO music or even remixes) into a subdirectory under this one named "dist-packages". You are now ready to actually build and package the application: DEPS_PATH=/Library/Frameworks ./build.sh uqm build/unix_installer/copy_mac_frameworks.pl This should produce a working app bundle named "The Ur-Quan Masters.app". For proper redistribution this app should be put in a disk image with the Disk Utility. If you are running on a version of macOS later than 10.12, don't forget to make sure you use HFS+ instead of APFS, or your disk image won't be mountable on any version of macOS 10.12 or earlier!