How to use on Mac OS?

[Gibitwit]

https://beta.xonotic.org/autobuild/
How do I use the latest builds from ^ on Mac OS for playing Quake?

I tried adding files to the app bundle, like I did for the old Darkplaces build from LadyHavoc's site. And:
Changing the name of the bundle.
Changing the name of the bundle and the executable inside and sdl file inside the bundle.
Launching it from the terminal with the -basedir argument.
Putting the app bundle in the Quake folder.
And various combinations of the above.

[Baker7]

For starters -- and I may be wrong about this --- you will probably have to compile it yourself. Mac Gatekeeper security feature means every binary and dylib have to be signed. None of them are signed and neither are the autobuilds. But compiling it yourself takes part of one part of the issue.

Open source software + Macs are not very friendly these days.

[Gibitwit]

I don't think that is the problem. I told Gatekeeper to allow it, and the program runs. It can't find the game files, it tells me to use the -basedir argunment but it does not work.

[Baker7]

I don't think that is the problem. I told Gatekeeper to allow it, and the program runs. It can't find the game files, it tells me to use the -basedir argunment but it does not work.

The Mac version of DarkPlaces does not support line arguments (because .app files on a Mac do not support command lines, you would need to use "Apple Script"). That makes it impossible to run Quake with the autobuild (because on Windows you would need to add -quake in the command line like xonotic.exe -quake).

It might be possible if you rename the xonotic.app to darkplaces.app, in DarkPlaces if the binary has the name starting with "xonotic" if will be xonotic mode and will not look for the Quake binary.

So rename it darkplaces.app and cross your fingers and it might work.

[Gibitwit]

I did try the renaming method.

For the command line, I had that after the executable inside the app bundle.