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Build Warcraft II on PowerPC Mac OS X Leopard (Wargus + Stratagus)

Prebuilt PowerPC binaries and the build recipe for running Warcraft II via the open-source Stratagus engine and Wargus data importer on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, PowerPC (G4/G5). Built and verified on a Power Mac G5.

This is, as far as we can tell, the only PowerPC-Leopard build of the Wargus/Stratagus stack in existence: modern Wargus needs SDL2 + CMake 3.25, neither of which works on Leopard PPC, so this uses the legacy SDL 1.2 stack (Stratagus V2.3.0 / Wargus 2015) rebuilt with a modern toolchain.

You supply your own legally owned Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (or Battle.net Edition); wartool extracts it into the engine format. No game assets are included here.

Binaries (in binaries/)

Each tarball extracts over a /usr/local prefix.

Tarball What
sdl-1.2.15-tiger-ppc.tar.gz SDL 1.2.15 (Quartz/Cocoa video)
lua-5.1.5-tiger-ppc.tar.gz Lua 5.1.5
kit-toluapp-1.0.92-tiger-ppc.tar.gz tolua++ 1.0.92 (Lua binding generator)
kit-pkgconfig-0.29.2-tiger-ppc.tar.gz pkg-config 0.29.2 (internal glib)
kit-cmake-3.16.9-tiger-ppc.tar.gz CMake 3.16.9
kit-stormlib-be-tiger-ppc.tar.gz StormLib (MPQ reader) with the big-endian build fix
kit-stratagus-2.3.0-tiger-ppc.tar.gz Stratagus V2.3.0 engine
kit-wargus-tools-tiger-ppc.tar.gz Wargus wartool / wargus / pudconvert

Toolchain

  • GCC 10.5 for Tiger/Leopard PPC (see ppc-compilers / ppc-tiger-tools) for everything C++.
  • Apple system gcc-4.2 (/usr/bin/gcc-4.2) for SDL 1.2 and Lua (SDL's Darwin path uses Objective-C and -fpascal-strings, which mainline GCC rejects).

Build notes (the walls, and the fixes)

  • gcc-10 ABI vs Leopard's system libstdc++: gcc-10 C++ binaries crash under the old system libstdc++. Fix: export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/gcc-10/lib (set it in ~/.bash_profile), and note that sudo strips DYLD_*, so installs need sudo env DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=... make install.
  • CMake: missing #include <memory> in cmMachO.h (gcc-10 is strict); add it.
  • Stratagus: gcc-10 reads "fmt"_C_ (the #define _C_ , vararg idiom) as a C++11 user-defined literal. Fix: insert a space ("fmt" _C_) tree-wide. SDL 1.2 needs the full macOS framework set at link: -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-framework OpenGL -framework Cocoa -framework ApplicationServices -framework Carbon -framework AudioToolbox -framework AudioUnit -framework IOKit -framework CoreFoundation". Copy gameheaders/*.h to /usr/local/include.
  • Wargus: make GTK2 optional (find_package(GTK2) with no REQUIRED/component, then -DNOGTK) to skip the GUI wizard. ranlib the installed StormLib (it is built ar rcS, with no symbol table).
  • Display over SSH: an SSH-launched SDL app cannot reach the console WindowServer. Run it inside the Aqua session with launchctl bsexec <Finder-pid> ....

Running

  1. Extract all tarballs over /usr/local.
  2. export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/gcc-10/lib
  3. wartool /path/to/warcraft2/DATA /usr/local/share/games/stratagus/wargus
  4. wargus (or stratagus -d /usr/local/share/games/stratagus/wargus)

Built by Elyan Labs on real PowerPC hardware.