Mac: Need help getting started with coding!!

[DarklingGX]

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to pay attention to me. If you are reading this, then hopefully you know how to set up MCP with MCForge and Buildcraft API on a mac. I do not have the budget to buy a new computer either, so please dont tell me that's what i need to do. If you could help, I would be very grateful.

[Zedicus]

[hide]Download MCP - http://www.mediafire.com/?spaiyzpccxkx6cg

Download Forge Source - http://adf.ly/673885/372src

Download minecraft server.jar - https://minecraft.net/download

 

Extract the MCP .zip into some folder, then 'extract here' (7zip) the forge .zip inside the extracted MCP folder, open the 'jars' folder inside MCP and drag a vanilla minecraft 1.4.5 'bin' and 'resources' forces from your .minecraft and copy them in, then grab your server.jar and drag it into the same folder ('jars'); go into your forge folder and run the 'install' file, wait for that to finish, for the external APIs consult this written by 'Dries007'

You start by getting a fresh MCP as per usual. I assume you know you need to make a backup of your src or just start over in another folder. This includes fresh .jars!

 

Get a fresh Forge Source zip, and unzip that inside your MCP folder. Don't run the install script just yet.

 

Inside the 'forge' folder there is a folder called 'src', that's where you need to put the source of the API. Make sure you put the client stuff in the client folder and the server stuff in the server folder!

 

If you run the install script now, the API will get installed along with forge, and when you run 'reobfuscate' or 'getchangedsrc' the API won't be included.

 

If you want to use eclipse, run it and when selecting your workspace choose '/mcp/eclipse' and that'll let you run it, edit it, etc all from eclipse.[/hide]

 

Granted I don't know if it works exactly the same on mac, but it might work.

[DarklingGX]

When i go to run the install files, it opens up as a text file instead of a command file.

[Zedicus]

Can you run it via 'terminal' or some mac mumbo jumbo like that?

[vroominator]

Yeah you need to run them through the terminal, although I'm not entirely sure how that's done. Just google around a bit, you should be able to find it.

[HoBoS_TaCo]

To run shell files on a mac you use:

 

 

cd <folder with .sh files>

 

 

then

 

 

bash <shell file>

 

 

It should look something like this:

 

 

cd /Users/Bob/Minecraft/mcp72

bash install.sh

[DarklingGX]

Thank you all, the problem is solved. I will start coding immediately.