I decided that using the Windows starter pack on Mac, through Wineskin, instead of an actual Mac release of DF was just too much. I repeated the process of downloading and extracting things in the right place Too Many Times, so I wrote this script.
It downloads various packages and puts them together. It currently filters the available Mac downloads for the following packages, and lets the user choose a version for each:
- Dwarf Fortress: http://bay12games.com/dwarves/older_versions.html
- PyLNP: https://bitbucket.org/Pidgeot/python-lnp/downloads/
- PeridexisErrant's Starter Pack, for the graphics: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=7622
- DFHack: https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/releases
- TWBT: https://github.com/mifki/df-twbt/releases
It generates a 'df' folder with everything in the right place. I rename PyLNP.app to 'Dwarf Fortress LNP.app' because that's the way it works better with my own Mac launcher, and I additionally create an AppleScript-based app for running dfhack directly, without the LNP, which just uses the options that were used by the LNP the last time.
The script relies on HTML scrapping and name matching for most packages, which could break at any moment.
For GitHub repos, rate limiting for unauthenticated requests hits pretty quickly, so I made it work with a personal access token. You should create an account and add a token at https://github.com/settings/tokens. Then, copy config.yml.example to config.yml and enter the token there.
I'm currently using PeridexisErrant's Starter Pack only for its collection of graphic packs, I may change this to actually retrieve them from their source.
I am not retrieving any utilities at the moment. In the future I expect to download all utilities currently provided by PE's starter pack that have a Mac version.
The script depends on the curl, unzip, tar and bzip2 system utilities, and the Nokogiri Ruby library, which is currently handled by Bundler.
For installing it, you need to run
bundle install
You start the script by running
bundle exec dfdl.rb
It will provide a list for different versions of each package, you choose one by entering its number and pressing enter.
I'm currently using the latest 64 bit versions of all packages, which works perfectly on my High Sierra installation.