RoboCup Soccer Simulator 2D Server on Mac OS X

After the Windows version, i tried installing RCSS 2D on OS X Mountain Lion. This is also undocumented, while it’s probably easier being OS X someway similiar to Linux OSs.

This time I compiled everything from source, so I’m sure it’s using the newer versions; to compile it you need MacPorts, a simple package manager, and XCode, which comes with building tools that MacPorts needs. You can get XCode from the App Store for free 😀

You need then the Robocup Soccer Server source: from this page you have to download rcssserver, rcssmonitor and rcsslogplayer (i’m using lastest versions, 15.2.2 server and 15.1 monitor and logplayer). Extract the archives in a folder that’s easy to access with the command line.

• Open XCode, then open Preferences > Downloads and install Command Line Tools.
• Download here the right version of MacPorts for your system and install it.
• Open terminal and install boost libraries with
  

  sudo port install boost

  This will install boost and all its dependencies. It compiles from source so it will take a while depending on your hardware.

• Now you can install RCSS Server: cd into the folder you extracted before, compile and install the server.
  

  cd [rcssserver folder]
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

  Test it by running the rcssserver command (run it twice because the first time it just creates config files)

• Now you have to install other packages to compile the monitor
  

  sudo port install pkgconfig
  sudo port install qt4-mac

• Compile and install rcssmonitor
  

  cd [rcssmonitor folder]
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

• Compile and install rcsslogplayer
  

  cd [rcsslogplayer]
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install