macOS Support

[DarioSamo]

Update

macOS has been added and will be part of the next version update. If you wish to test it ahead of time, follow this comment's instructions.

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Original Post

While macOS is not currently in the roadmap, the project welcomes any effort to add macOS support, as Unleashed Recompiled relies on plume, a rendering hardware abstraction that will be getting support for Metal in the near future. macOS support can stay as part of the main project if a new maintainer is interested in supporting it.

A prototype through the usage of MoltenVK could also be currently attempted, as plume supports Vulkan.

EDIT: A PR for macOS support is in progress here.

[SolarArts]

A MacOS port would be amazing

[squidbus]

Currently seems to be unable to compile because directx-dxc in vcpkg has no macOS support.

[Sonic-Hero]

Currently seems to be unable to compile because directx-dxc in vcpkg has no macOS support.
This command below can install directx-dxc on Mac:

./vcpkg install directx-dxc

Mac kind of supports it from memory. I might test it out to see what issues come up and to see if there are any work arounds

[squidbus]

./vcpkg install directx-dxc

Mac kind of supports it from memory. I might test it out to see what issues come up and to see if there are any work arounds

I checked with --allow-unsupported and it doesn't work, because the formula only knows how to download Linux or Windows versions, and on Mac it just downloads the Windows files: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/ports/directx-dxc/portfile.cmake

[Sonic-Hero]

Ok, that might be a LITTLE issue 😅

[Sonic-Hero]

Could a wine skin or another translation tool help with this? I don't really want to use windows translation tools because they are very recourse heavy, but I might take a look into it to see if any results can come from it.

This might not be a good idea because you would want to make sure the game is running well, but for now figuring out a work around or fix for directx-dxc seems to be the main issue...

[squidbus]

Here's what I think so far are 3 paths:

• Getting Mac builds of directx-dxc; I think this may be supported to some extent by DirectXShaderCompiler itself but they don't provide builds, and by extension the vcpkg package is not configured to work with macOS. It's a bit difficult since the compiler is also used as a tool so it basically needs to be built at configure time to then run on shader source files.
• Running dxc under wine, this may be doable but since XenosRecomp uses it as a library that also may be a problem.
• Running Windows builds of UnleashedRecomp under wine, problem I seem to be facing with this currently is it's hitting shader compile errors with the Crossover bundled MoltenVK, and this code forces wine to use Vulkan, so it currently can't be used with D3DMetal (am trying to build without this constraint):

  UnleashedRecomp/UnleashedRecomp/gpu/video.cpp

  Line 1661 in 9e744ff

  g_vulkan = DetectWine() || Config::GraphicsAPI == EGraphicsAPI::Vulkan;

[SolarArts]

Maybe someday, we’ll get the blessing of Sonic Unleashed. It’s the one port (besides Sonic Generations but I got that in my Switch) that I’ve been DYING to play.

[Saussau083]

I'm on Mac (MacBook Air M2, 8GB, macOS Sequoia). I’ve gone through the install process with Wine, which works perfectly fine. But now, the game doesn’t launch through Wine. If you have any tips, feel free to share :)

[IsaacMarovitz]

I'm taking a look

[Sonic-Hero]

I'm on Mac (MacBook Air M2, 8GB, macOS Sequoia). I’ve gone through the install process with Wine, which works perfectly fine. But now, the game doesn’t launch through Wine. If you have any tips, feel free to share :)

@Saussau083 try deleting the cache or reinstalling the game. This project is new so we don't really know what issues come up when translating the base windows decomp through wine.