My Old School Hex Map Tutorial tells people to use mkhexgrid, if they can. It’s what I’ve been doing for years, now.
On my wife’s laptop we now run Mac 10.9 (”Maverick”) and it no longer builds. As I’ve switched to using Homebrew, I recided to write my own Formula.
If you want to try it, save it as `/usr/local/Library/Formula/mkhexgrid.rb` and run `brew install mkhexgrid`. The only tricky thing is that it requires the GD library to be built with FreeType, apparently. If you don’t have GD installed, great. This Formula will do the right thing. If not, you might have to `brew uninstall gd` before proceeding.
require 'formula'
class Mkhexgrid < Formula
homepage 'http://www.nomic.net/~uckelman/mkhexgrid/'
url 'http://www.nomic.net/~uckelman/mkhexgrid/releases/mkhexgrid-0.1.1.src.tar.bz2'
sha1 '3b8e0be3636f90a3217a5e3556bdaf7bb0c49116'
depends_on 'gd' => %w{with-freetype}
def install
inreplace 'Makefile' do |s|
s.change_make_var! "DESTDIR", prefix
s.change_make_var! "CC", ENV.cc
s.gsub! /install (.*) -o 0 -g 0/, 'install \1'
end
inreplace 'mkhexgrid.cpp' do |s|
s.sub! 'catch (exception &e)', 'catch (std::exception &e)'
end
system "make" # needs to be separate
system "make", "install"
end
test do
# test the example from the man page (but without inches)
system "mkhexgrid", "--output=ps", "--image-width=2448",
"--image-height=1584", "--hex-side=36", "--coord-bearing=0",
"--coord-dist=22", "--coord-size=8", "--grid-thickness=1",
"--coord-font=Helvetica", "--grid-grain=h", "--grid-start=o",
"--coord-tilt=-90", "--centered", "-o", "test.ps"
end
end
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These days, it’s part of Homebrew:
alex@Megabombus:~$ brew search mkhexgrid homebrew/games/mkhexgrid ✔ alex@Megabombus:~$ brew install mkhexgrid Warning: homebrew/games/mkhexgrid-0.1.1 already installed alex@Megabombus:~$ brew reinstall mkhexgrid ==> Reinstalling homebrew/games/mkhexgrid ==> Downloading http://www.nomic.net/~uckelman/mkhexgrid/releases/mkhexgrid-0.1. `#``#``#``#``#``#``#``#``#``#``#``#``#``#`## 100,0% ==> make ==> make install 🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/mkhexgrid/0.1.1: 14 files, 214.9K, built in 28 seconds
– Alex Schroeder 2016-04-13 05:41 UTC