Installing Player/Stage: my OS X 10.6 experiences

First of all, if you have OS X 10.5, I think the MacPorts route should work. Install MacPorts first, then install Player/Stage from a shell by typing

sudo port install
playerstage-player

and

sudo port install
playerstage-stage

(in that order).

For OS X 10.6, this worked for Player, but Stage would not build. I was able to get all the various dependencies for Stage this way, I think, though I'm not sure how many are really required. Instead I followed the advice given here, more or less. A couple of notes, though:

Don't forget to set INSTALL_DIR like I did at first. Using /usr/local works nicely for me since I am going back and forth between Mac and Linux and don't want to get confused, but it doesn't matter much, I don't think.
The fltk link is busted, just go to fltk.org and get the latest 1.3.x snapshot. (Note 1.1 will not build 64-bit in 10.6)
I actually had to manually remove libfltk* in /opt/local/lib that MacPorts had put there earlier, since it was built for 32-bit and I couldn't convince CMake not to look there.

Good luck, ask questions (of me or Google)!

--zjb, 2/15/11