So, I was bored today and decided to check out Ogre3D. Being more of an artist then programmer, jumping into this whole world of graphics engines was a little bit confusing at first. First of all, I haven’t touched C++ in ages, and even back then it was merely doing simple arithmetic. So, I downloaded the latest release of Ogre3D from www.ogre3d.org (which was 1.6.0). Being lazy, I decided to take the “Prebuilt SDK” route. Well, everything went great until I tried to compile the sample applications and I got an error “You can’t open the application ‘Application’ because it’s not supported on this architecture.” I assumed the XCode file was setup to build for the Intel architecture, so I checked to make sure but it’s set to build Universal Builds. I poked my head around the forums a bit and found out that the OSX Prebuilt SDK available for download is only for Intel macs.
So now it’s time to stop being lazy. I decided to compile the SDK myself and downloaded the Ogre3D source code for the SDK. However, to save some time in compiling every single dependancy, I found the Universal Binary’s for them instead. I slapped them in every spot on my drive that made any logical sense (i.e. /Library/Frameworks, /System/Library/Frameworks, etc.) and it still wasn’t recognizing the dependancies. By coincidence, I hovered my mouse over one of them and noticed they were pointing to “ogre/Dependencies/…”. Since the directory in the SDK source didn’t even exist, I would have never thought to put it there. To make a long story short, I discovered if the dependency displays in red text in XCode, then it can’t find it. *sigh*.
Now that all the pieces are in the puzzle, I started the long compiling and linking process. Everything seemed to be going well, aside the 160 warnings, until this error occurred:
error: The file “OctreeZone Plugin-Info.plist” does not exist.
The file is clearly there, so I don’t know what XCode is throwing a fit about. So in frustration, I’ve set aside my interest in Ogre for now. I’ll come back to it again some other day.
EDIT (27 November 2008): I’m pretty well known to never give up on something, so I’ve looked into the issue a little further after sleeping on it last night. I found that the OctreeZone plugin is using an absolute path which is set to “/Users/steve/projects/Shoggoth/ogre/Mac/Ogre/./plist/OctreeZone Plugin-Info.plist”. To fix it, it needs changed to “./plist/OctreeZone Plugin-Info.plist”. If you’re looking to change this yourself, you can find the setting by clicking on the OctreeZone plugin under the Target group > Get Info > scroll under the Build tab and you’ll find it listed in there.
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