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- Dudeman - 2008-01-29 07:50
rokawa206 Wrote:I know i have the .profile file set right. well atleast i think i do. the xbmc dir is on my desktop and i did not have the .profile file in my user/rr dir so i created one. tell me if im wrong but all i have to do is open a text edit and put: export XBMC_HOME=/Users/rr/Desktop/XBMC. and just save it as .profile and put it in /Users/rr.
after that i restart and try to open xbmc and it keeps saying that xbmc_home is not set.
i have all the libs installed with macports i just dont understand why it keeps saying its not set.
Please help and thanks in advance
More than likely your .profile file is actually named .profile.txt. You need to rename it to get rid of the .txt extension. Get Info on it, then rename it there. The OS will warn you that .profile files are reserved for the system, but just click on "use .profile" anyway.
One way to tell if it's .txt, is the icon, it will have a TXT in the icon, whereas a .profile file has a completely blank icon.
Dudeman
- rokawa206 - 2008-01-29 09:20
Dudeman Wrote:More than likely your .profile file is actually named .profile.txt. You need to rename it to get rid of the .txt extension. Get Info on it, then rename it there. The OS will warn you that .profile files are reserved for the system, but just click on "use .profile" anyway.
One way to tell if it's .txt, is the icon, it will have a TXT in the icon, whereas a .profile file has a completely blank icon.
Dudeman
thanks for the reply. however, that is not the problem. i could tell its a system file cause its greyed out and yes i made sure. ive read all post and im almost 100%sure that its set right and thats whats trippin me out. is there suppose to be any other code in the file?? well i dont think i will get this figured out cause im sure its set correctly the only other thing i can thik of is do i have to set permissions on the any files??
Thanks
- Dudeman - 2008-01-29 09:46
rokawa206 Wrote:thanks for the reply. however, that is not the problem. i could tell its a system file cause its greyed out and yes i made sure. ive read all post and im almost 100%sure that its set right and thats whats trippin me out. is there suppose to be any other code in the file?? well i dont think i will get this figured out cause im sure its set correctly the only other thing i can thik of is do i have to set permissions on the any files??
Thanks
The only other thing I can think of is rebooting the Mac. When you create the file, it does not automatically get appended to your environment. You need to restart the Mac.
Once you restarted it, open up a Terminal windows and type env. See if the XBMC_HOME line is listed.
Beyond this, I don't know...
Dudeman
- rokawa206 - 2008-01-29 10:33
Dudeman Wrote:The only other thing I can think of is rebooting the Mac. When you create the file, it does not automatically get appended to your environment. You need to restart the Mac.
Once you restarted it, open up a Terminal windows and type env. See if the XBMC_HOME line is listed.
Beyond this, I don't know...
Dudeman
well when i type in env i dont see xbmc. also im not sure when this happend but everytime i open terminal i get this at the top:
-bash: {rtf1ansiansicpg1252cocoartf949: command not found
-bash: /Users/rr/.profile: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
-bash: /Users/rr/.profile: line 2: `{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}'
so now im thinking this has something to do with it
Thanks again dudeman
Strange error after trying to run - robbiesullivan - 2008-01-30 03:33
Hello all, first off I have to say I'm a long time fan of XBMC and used it on my xbox for years. THe fact that its coming to the mac made my day this morning.
I installed everything as per the instructions in this forum thread. I receive the following error:
dyld: Symbol not found: _clock$UNIX2003
Referenced from: /Applications/XBMC/XBMC
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
I've got the path set in my .profile file that I created and verified that I had everything installed with port install.
Any ideas,
THanks
Rob
- Dudeman - 2008-01-30 07:24
robbiesullivan Wrote:Hello all, first off I have to say I'm a long time fan of XBMC and used it on my xbox for years. THe fact that its coming to the mac made my day this morning.
I installed everything as per the instructions in this forum thread. I receive the following error:
dyld: Symbol not found: _clock$UNIX2003
Referenced from: /Applications/XBMC/XBMC
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
I've got the path set in my .profile file that I created and verified that I had everything installed with port install.
Any ideas,
THanks
Rob
Frankly Rob, this is a question for the coders like Elan. Most of us here are just end-users.
I know next to nothing about Linux and Unix, but a quick search on line, some cross referencing and an educated guess, tells me that you might have some sort of mismatch between the Xcode tools and your OS.
What versions of the OS and XCode Tools are you running ?
Dudeman
- robbiesullivan - 2008-01-30 12:46
I'm running tiger. I applied the xcode tools from the CD.
- CosyCat - 2008-01-30 14:18
I think Leopard is needed for installing XBMC on Mac.
Leopard and Xcode 3.0(on Leopard DVD or download from web)
- robbiesullivan - 2008-01-30 14:24
ooooooh its lepord only.... missed that..
- gurkburk - 2008-01-30 21:20
Just one question about the .profile thing, I have set it to be export XBMC_HOME=/Desktop/XBMC/ and its named right .profile, but I still get errormessage after reboot that my home enoviroment variable not are set.
Should it be export XBMC_HOME=/Desktop/XBMC/XBMC again?
My path to XBMC looks like this:
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