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Hi Torqu3, I'm the author of Chocolate Doom. Sorry to hear you're having trouble.

 

It would help if you could provide some information. Firstly, are you able to build the program (ie. run through the whole compile stage) or does it fail there? Secondly, what version of OSX are you using?

I am running in OS X 10.5.2 Leopard. The problem is with the building and compiling process. I follow the directions on the chocolate doom website and use Terminal. The Terminal command...

 

curl http://www.chocolate-doom.org/build-chocolate-doom | sh

 

...can be entered into terminal, but the outcome that the site says will occur doesn't happen.

just do us a favor before i decide to stop reading this thread and COPY AND PASTE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE TERMINAL.
There's no need to get upset. I'm just trying to gather information. It's not always obvious to non-programmers that it helps to have as much information as possible when trying to debug a problem :-)

the curl program is unable to connect to the chocolate-doom.org web server it seems. are you behind some sort of firewall or have a firewall setup (like littlesnitch)?

 

are you able to go to the website (http://www.chocolate-doom.org) in safari or firefox? if so just download that file to your desktop, and you should be able to start it with

 

sh ~/Desktop/build-chocolate-doom

 

in your terminal.

If curl doesn't work from the command line, the script itself probably won't work either, because it uses curl as well.

 

It looks like there's some kind of problem with your networking setup. Like sg said, you don't have any firewalls running at all, do you?

 

Also, and this is a stupid question, but you are doing this from a machine that has Internet access, right? :-)

Yes. I Have internet, but I live in a dorm, which has the most annoying firewall. Is there any other way to build Chocolate Doom?

 

I assume you're probably accessing the web through a proxy server? You need to get the proxy server settings out of your browser - where this is stored will vary depending on which browser you are using. In Firefox, for example, there is a button called "Configure how Firefox connects to the Internet". You need to get the proxy server address, and username and password (if there is one). Then you need to type something like this:

 

export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy.server.address.com:portnumber

 

For example, if the proxy server was at "proxy.example.com" port 8080, with the username "proxyuser" and the password "proxypass", it would be:

 

export http_proxy=http://proxyuser:proxypass@proxy.example.com:8080

 

If the proxy doesn't have a username/password, you can leave that bit off, eg.

 

export http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:8080

 

Then try running the build-chocolate-doom command line again. You must do these two commands in the same shell: don't close the window after setting the http_proxy variable.

 

Hope this helps!

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