Mac build using Xcode fails

[ryandesign]

I want to build Aerofoil 1.1.2 from source on macOS 10.15.7 using Xcode. First I had to disable the code-signing stuff. Then the build failed with:

AerofoilMac/Resources/Houses/Titanic.gpf: No such file or directory
AerofoilMac/Resources/Houses/Teddy World.mov.gpf: No such file or directory
AerofoilMac/Resources/Houses/SpacePods.mov.gpf: No such file or directory
AerofoilMac/Resources/Houses/Slumberland.mov.gpf: No such file or directory
AerofoilMac/Resources/Houses/Titanic.mov.gpf: No such file or directory
AerofoilMac/Resources/Houses/SpacePods.gpf: No such file or directory
AerofoilMac/Resources/Houses/The Asylum Pro.gpf: No such file or directory
AerofoilMac/Resources/Houses/Teddy World.gpf: No such file or directory

In Aerofoil/Resources there is a README.TXT which says

Extract resources from the Windows build

but it is not explained how to produce the Windows build.

Ideally, it is desirable to be able to produce the Mac build without needing any files from elsewhere.

[elasota]

The main way to build the Windows build is to install WiX Toolset and build the ReleasePackageInstaller project in the solution, which will also generate the game data.

If you want to do this without VS then the batch file that generates the game data is ConvertResources.bat. Getting that to work will also require porting most of the command-line tools (at minimum, MiniRez, gpr2gpa, FTagData, MergeGPF, GenerateFonts, ConvertColorCursors, hqx2gp, and HouseTool all need to be ported, and for most of those, WindowsUnicodeToolShim also needs to be ported).

Most of those should be self-explanatory, except for WindowsUnicodeToolShim which is basically just a wrapper of some functions for porting the tools. Since macOS uses UTF-8 for arguments and file paths natively, most of what's in that just has to be single-line functions there, except for the directory scan which I know nothing about off-hand.

[ryandesign]

Thanks for the explanation! Porting those tools to UNIX looks like a good project for another day.