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Hi,

I read the INSTALL.md on how to compile on macOS, but i found the "make" command to not produce the correct result. In order for me to build a mac app i have to use the following command: "make mac-app-tiles APPLE_GCC=y NO_PKGCONFIG=y CONTRIB_SDL=y TILES=y". Would it make sense to add this to the INSTALL.md file perhaps?

Later,
Erlend

Can you explain in more detail how the suggested commands fail, and how you figured out the above command to run?

According to INSTALL.md i need to run "make -j4 TILES=y" after i have installed dependencies. I tried that, and it seem to build ok, but no mac app is built. I get the following output:
"Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C rltiles all ARCH=x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0 NO_PKGCONFIG=Yes TILES=y"

In the "Makefile" you have a "mac-app-tiles" build option, which builds using "mac/Makefile.app-bundle". This creates the mac app archive in the "mac-app-zips" folder.

I cant remember how i came up with the exact options i was using, since it was some time ago, maybe the INSTALL document has changed. But whoever makes the mac release builds now and upload them to the webpage could maybe chip in?

Thanks for the info. I submitted a pull request based on this feedback: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/1554

I tried to build according to your pull request "make -j4 mac-app-tiles". This builds the zips, but the application does not run. Did you test that it work?

I guess some of this was clarified in the PR thread, but this command in particular isn't intended to build an app version. Rather, it builds a binary that you can run at the command line that will start tiles (called `crawl`, so just run `./crawl` from the source directory).