Build the StepMania Source in Mac OS X

Install Xcode

Install the latest version of Xcode, either from your Mac OS X DVD or by downloading it from Apple. You will need a free Apple Developer Connection to download Xcode.

Unpacking the Frameworks

After getting the StepMania source, open the terminal and cd into stepmania/PBProject/Frameworks and run
$ tar jxf Frameworks.tar.bz2
to decompress the Frameworks.

Building

• Using Xcode
  • Open the stepmania.pbproj file in the stepmania/PBProject directory.
  • Set the active target to stepmania and the active build configuration to
    • Debug, if you wish to build a debugging build,
    • Native, if you wish to build StepMania for your computer architecture only (ppc or i386),
    • Universal, if you wish to build a Universal Binary.
• Using the command line
  • cd to stepmania/PBProject
  • Run one of
    • xcodebuild -target stepmania -configuration Debug
    • xcodebuild -target stepmania -configuration Native
    • xcodebuild -target stepmania -configuration Universal
  • Optionally, you can run strip -x StepMania.app/Contents/MacOS/StepMania from the terminal to potentially reduce the size of the binary.