Unfortunately, I've hit a dead end with Mac development. Building for Mac requires a Mac, which I do not have access to. I tried a number of workarounds, but none of them seem feasible for me.
Unless my local library gets a Mac, or someone in the community decides to port it, this is currently not on the horizon.
Unfortunately, there's a bit of trial and error involved, and it's not an entirely straightforward processes. Here's the steps to the best of my knowledge, based on my attempts to emulate a mac environment.
1. Download or clone this project https://github.com/asr1/padoof. I use VSCode, but any environment should work for editing.
2. Ensure you have npm and node installed
3. Using a terminal (or VSCode), navigate to the project directory and run `npm install`
4. If all goes well, there are no errors, and you can run `npm run buildmac`.
5. If all goes well here, it's just a matter of finding the build artifacts (which should include the dmg installer file), then that should be that.
6. There are a handful of dependencies that this project has (like ghostscript) that should be relatively straightforward to install on Mac, but I'd need to write a script to grab the correct versions and make it easy to install.
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3b. I would not be surprised if this step fails. If it does, it's probably looking for ffmpeg-static, which should either be removed, or changed in `package.json` from 4.3 to 4.4.1. I would expect that the electron dependency also needs to be changed. Looking online, it looks like maybe `"electron": "^29.2.0",` should be changed to the latest version, by running `npm update electron`.
4b. I've never gotten this far, so if this step fails, I'd need to look at the error messages and see what can be done.
I don't know what your level of experience is, so please forgive me if I either explained things that are obvious, or did not provide enough context. I'm happy to help out where I can, but I suspect this is relatively tricky to accomplish using this approach (asynchronous itch posts :))
Either way, I appreciate the offer and enthusiasm!
