I downloaded the BasiliskII and SheepShaver source code from CVS and am encountering problems with building SheepShaver. Originally, I tried to use the Xcode project, but I have Xcode 4 installed and it has many incompatibilities with the older project, even with the 10.4 and 10.5 SDKs installed.

Next, I tried to compile using the command line. Using Mac OS 10.6.6 and SDL-1.2.15, I followed the directions at http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/compiling_sheepshaver_basilisk to compile the SDL source. At the line "./configure --disable-shared --prefix=`pwd`", I received an error that the path needed to be an absolute path, so I put it in the home directory with '~/pwd'. That worked, so I moved on to the SheepShaver source. Everything seemed to go correctly; however, the resulting SheepShaver app does not launch at all.

I'm not sure how much information I need to give about my system, so please let me know if there is something more that would help determine the problem. Thanks very much for any help!

Hi,

Can you try to start the SheepShaver application from within the bundle? open a terminal and cd into SheepShaver.app/Contents/MacOS/ and execute SheepShaver from there. Does the terminal give you a hint about what might be wrong?

Can you also copy the settings overview from the end of your ./configure step here?

Best,
Cat_7

This is what the terminal gives from launching the executable inside the bundle:


And here is the summary from the ./config:


I noticed something else that may be useful. After running "make", an executable that is 2.1 MB is created. "make SheepShaver_app" creates an app bundle that is 1.7 MB. Does this indicate that something is missing from SheepShaver.app? Unfortunately, neither one launches.

Hi,

Never saw that error before.

Can you tell us what rom file/boot disk you are using? And can you post your .sheepshaver_prefs file contents?
The app being smaller is due to the "strip" that is done on the executable that is built. Debug info is stripped from it, leading to a smaller size before being bundled.

Best,
Cat_7

Here is the preference file:

The boot disk is a 1 GB image with Mac OS 8.5.1 installed, and the ROM is from the ROM Update 1.0. I've been moving the working version of SheepShaver out of the directory so that my build can use the relative links, but it still doesn't launch.

In OSX 10.6.8 with XCode 3.2.6 on a 64-bit capable Intel Mac, I followed the instructions as they are now in the wiki for compiling using the command line method.

Compiling SDL, I did not see the error you saw about the path when doing:

SheepShaver configuration summery is identical to yours.

Result is a 64-bit only SheepShaver that runs fine here.

The problem seems to be caused entirely by Xcode 4. I tried compiling on another computer with Xcode 3.2.2 and it worked fine. I may just uninstall Xcode 4 and go back to Xcode 3. . .

But the good news is that I seem to be able to get working builds now, so thanks for your help, guys!