Xenia for Mac?

[1NEGROUP]

Is there a way to Compile for Mac?

[Razzile]

macOS doesn't meet quite a lot of the requirements for xenia.

Until it gets an updated openGL driver to support 4.5 or vulkan support (unlikely right now) xenia cannot run on mac.

Your best bet would be to dual boot and run xenia on windows.

[Razzile]

even with that, there is still a huge amount of porting work needed. For example xenia currently relies on quite a few windows API calls

[MrSapps]

moltenvk isn't even free..

[Razzile]

^ that too

[MrSapps]

seems unlikely

[MightyElemental]

xbox means DirectX box. Macs do not have DirectX so I doubt there will ever be a version for Mac.

[Razzile]

@Gamedev1909 Are you sure about that?

@MightyElemental but they can write OpenGL/Vulkan driver so it could work on Mac, it is possible, but not worth at actual state of xenia.

[gibbed]

There is nothing stopping a OSX build from existing, other than a contributor who would make the necessary effort to get it building on OSX. The main contributors don't develop on OSX.

[Razzile]

@gibbed the problem with OS X (at least for now) is awful graphics support. No vulkan and the max OpenGL version is OpenGL 4.2.

If mac gets proper graphics drivers I'd be more than happy to attempt to port the rest

[Fraxul]

Not even 4.2, it's 4.1 on the latest Mac OS. Being a graphics developer on Mac OS is a hard life.

Metal definitely has the features to host Xenia, but it'd be better to get the graphics subsystem closer to feature-complete/working before trying to port to yet another hardware backend.

[Margen67]

You have no idea what you're talking about. Just stop.

[hlide]

So just contribute to porting Xenia upon OSX. Less wording, more coding.

[D1SMBD1D]

C'mon, no one has worked on the emu in a month and you want someone to rewrite craploads of code so it runs on a mac?

[petmac]

Does Xenia definitely require features from OpenGL 4.5, or is that the minimum requirement because it's more convenient?

Maybe it would be possible to support 4.1 or 4.2 with some smaller scale reworking.