Support for Mac OS X and other operating system plugins

[optic delusion]

Learner, here's a text file of the terminal you requested.

I still haven't done anything to the build with client disabled, not even "make" on a plugin. I don't have to, right?

[learner]

(as nothing can be 100% stable)

Hehe, sure it can. It's just incredibly insanely expensive and complicated to the point of utter impracticality to guarantee 100%. But.. it is possible.

It's also not fun. Fly by the seat coding is much more rewarding..

[optic delusion]

Well, bzfs works from the good CVS, I thought I had a pretty good Idea of how to load a plugin, but now they've been moved, renamed, re-typed (now dylib) and I still don't know if I need to rum make on them.

I've tried about sixteen ways to load a plugin from within a 2.0.0 client, it looks to me that the command would look like this for me, but it doesn't load.... do I need underscore?

/loadplugin bearded/cvs/bzflag/plugins/airspawn/.libs/libairspawn.dylib

[optic delusion]

Now I read alot of posts over again and come up with
/loadplugin /usr/local/lib/libairspawn.dylib
plugin loaded

thirty minutes later, the first time I ever had to use force quit on the terminal.

[optic delusion]

I think the crash was at least partly due to the fact that I had not restarted my machine in several days, and had half a dozen terminals open.

Now I put some more plugins in the conf and start the server

Plugin:/usr/local/lib/libairspawn.dylib loaded

Plugin:/usr/local/lib/libroguegenocide.dylib found but does not contain bz_Load method, error dlcompat: Symbol "_bz_Load" not found
WARNING: unable to load the plugin; /usr/local/lib/libroguegenocide.dylib
Plugin:/usr/local/lib/libplayhistorytracker.dylib found but does not contain bz_Load method, error dlcompat: Symbol "_bz_Load" not found
WARNING: unable to load the plugin; /usr/local/lib/libplayhistorytracker.dylib
Plugin:/usr/local/lib/libshockwavedeath.dylib found but does not contain bz_Load method, error dlcompat: Symbol "_bz_Load" not found
WARNING: unable to load the plugin; /usr/local/lib/libshockwavedeath.dylib
./bzfs: can't map file: /usr/local/lib/ ((os/kern) invalid argument)

[learner]

A new build style was just checked in for the sake of the plugins that should hopefully take care of the "Symbol 'something' not found" load errors. It should be available in a couple hours from the date of this posting.

There is now no longer a "lib" prefix on the plugins, and all platforms use a .so extension (e.g. shockwavedeath.so now). They should still be installed before using them, but they should also work uninstalled from the .libs directory now too. If it doesn't work, make sure you can fully build and sucessfully install before complaining that they don't work please..

Enjoy

[optic delusion]

A first glance it looks exactly the same. I still have to ./configure --disable-client and only the airspawn plugin loads.
With all the changes, I'm not sure exactly how to install the plugins.
....reading....

OK they all loaded....forgot to "sudo" with make install. I wonder why only airspawn worked without being installed. I guess it was still there from yesterday, but then it was a dylib file. Hmmm...
Now on to the racetoseven plugin...

Learner, can you please help me compile the racetoseven plugin on macintosh. I'm guessing here...as usual...is this how it would go?
1. Download a copy of the entire source tree.
2. Place racetoseven in the plugin folder.
3. Continue compiling.

I need to wait for RPG to release a racetoseven build for the current API,
He said it would be ready today.

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OK-- Now 36 hours later, Its been running trouble free with airspawn, roguegeno, playhistory, and shockdeath. Double WOOT!

Toughshooter has done a compile of racetoseven......