OSX compatibility

Posted by Flynsarmy on Sat 09 May 2015 10:35 AM — 3 posts, 19,045 views.

#0
What is the major issue stopping a native OSX build? I'd absolutely love an OSX MUD client of the quality of MUSH.
Australia Forum Administrator #1
It uses a heap of Windows MFC libraries.

However it runs quite well under Wine.

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Please read the MUSHclient FAQ - point 16.


Also see: http://mushclient.com/forum/?id=11157

Example of it running:

USA Global Moderator #2
That's just not how application programming works. In order for a program to be natively built for multiple operating systems, you have to have that goal from the very beginning and work with intermediary frameworks (like Qt) that can translate your commands into OS specific implementations. MUSHclient just wasn't written that way.

But it doesn't really matter these days. MUSHclient works perfectly on Mac OS and Linux using WINE. I have some information about it at https://github.com/fiendish/aardwolfclientpackage/wiki/Mac-and-Linux

These days I recommend just downloading the latest compatible "vanilla" Wine.app build from the second half of the page at http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/downloads