Oxidizer Wiki: OxiSource

This assumes you've downloaded and installed XCode from apples connect.apple.com site.

First get hold of the source, there are two ways to do this...

Each proper release has an associated Source download.Go to Sourceforge click on the version you want to download and than choose the oxidzer_source*.zip file

Get it fresh from CVS, this is more complicated but will get you the very latest code and is the only way to get the code for the sneak previews.

To get the code from CVS...

Start Terminal.
Go to or make a folder where you want to put Oxidizer, say ~/Source

cd ~/Source

Type the following command then press enter

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@oxidizer.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/oxidizer login

You'll get a prompt for the CVS password, just press enter again.
Then enter the following command

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@oxidizer.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/oxidizer co -P oxidizer

Either way after a few seconds you should get a folder called oxidizer in the Source folder, This will contain everything you need to build Oxidizer, including all the frameworks and libraries that Oxidizer users
Double click on the xcode project file oxidizer.xcodeproj and XCode should load the project.
Select Compile and after a while you should have a compiled Oxidizer ready to run.

Note that if while Compiling you get an error message :-
Command /bin/sh failed with exit code 1
You can fix it by following these instructions.

In the XCode tree view there's an item called Targets.
Open that up and there should be a child item for Oxidizer.
Open that up and double click on the "Run Script" item You should get a window with a CLI script that starts like this....

cd LuaObjCBridge

#xcodebuild -configuration Release

cd ../libpng
echo "Building libpng"

Remove any # characters at the start of any line, like the xcodebuild line above, and build again. This is something I do to speed up the Oxidizer building process by not building the open source libraries that rarely change.

Oxidizer Wiki : OxiSource