[Tutorial] How to compile WiiFlow on Mac OS X

Post by **Ayatus** » Wed 20 Feb 2013 23:00

During a conversation on the #wiiflow channel, a member mentioned having trouble compiling WiiFlow on Mac OS X, which intrigued me, so I set out to deploy this OS in a virtual machine to see what's going on.

Not being particularly keen on installing Xcode, I found a way to get access to the compilation and versioning tools.

OSX GCC Installer for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion which will allow using the command make
Subversion 1.7.8 for OSX 10.8.x which will allow using the command svn

Once downloaded and installed, let's get to the serious stuff.

Setting up the environment:

The whole procedure will be done from a terminal.

We start by making sure we're in our user directory:

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cd ~

Then we create the development directory and move into it:

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mkdir WiiFlow && cd WiiFlow

Downloading and extracting libogc and devkitPPC:

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curl -O https://open-wiiflow-mod.googlecode.com/files/libogc_svn_r4902.zip
curl -O https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/devkitpro/devkitPPC/devkitPPC_r26-osx.tar.bz2
unzip libogc_svn_r4902.zip -d devkitpro
tar -xjf devkitPPC_r26-osx.tar.bz2 -C devkitpro

Creating and saving the environment variables:

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echo 'export PATH=/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH
export DEVKITPRO=/Users/$USER/WiiFlow/devkitpro
export DEVKITPPC=$DEVKITPRO/devkitPPC' >> ~/.profile
. ~/.profile

Creating a working copy of the WiiFlow sources

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svn co https://open-wiiflow-mod.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wiiflow-src

Compiling:

We start by moving into the directory of our working copy:

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cd wiiflow-src

Since Mac OS X doesn't like -u, we'll need to edit two files so that the compilation goes well.

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sed -i -e 's/@mv -u/@mv/' Makefile
sed -i -e 's/date +%Y%m%d%H%M -u/date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M/' scripts/svnrev.sh

All that's left is to run the compilation:

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make

Going further:

Miscellaneous.

Cleaning up between two compilations:
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```
make clean
```
Speeding up compilation by running several processes in parallel with a multi-core processor, here a quad-core:
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```
make -j5
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Updating the working copy:
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```
svn up
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Reverting the changes made to the working copy's files:
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svn revert -R .
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Updating the working copy to revision n:
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svn up -r n
```

And finally, a script to place at the root of the working copy:

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#!/bin/bash
make clean
svn revert -R . && svn up
sed -i -e 's/@mv -u/@mv/' Makefile
sed -i -e 's/date +%Y%m%d%H%M -u/date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M/' scripts/svnrev.sh
d1=`date +%s`
make -j5
echo -e "\033[00;31m compilé en $((`date +%s`-$d1))s\033[00m"

Post by **Oops** » Thu 21 Feb 2013 14:13

It's so beautiful that for once I'd run out and buy a mac to test

[Tutorial] How to compile WiiFlow on Mac OS X