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130 lines
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Mega-Glest
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by Titus Tscharntke and Mark Vejvoda
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original Glest linux port
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by Matthias Braun
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1. System requirements
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Developed on Linux with glibc, little endian cpu. The game does currently not
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work on big endian cpus like ppc. There are some unfinished patches floating
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around the glest board, so this might improve (feel free to send me
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updated/finished ppc patches).
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Graphics card + OpenGL libraries that support OpenGL 1.3 and shader extensions
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(=opengl 1.4 or glUseProgramObjectARB and co.)
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The app has been reported to run fine on a 900Mhz Athlon box with nvidia geforce
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3 graphics card.
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It seems that the game also runs on geforce 2 and geforce mx class hardware when
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you disable 3d textures and shadowmaps in the options menu. The game seems not
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to work with the open source (ATI) DRI drivers. It has reported to run nicely
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with ATIs proprietary drivers though.
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2. Building and Installation
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2.1 Prerequesites
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The game depends on some tools and libraries to be present, before you can
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start compiling it. Here's a list of them:
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* normal gnu compiler and additional tools (g++ version 3.2 or later is
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required at the moment)
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* perforce jam 2.5 or later (used as build tool)
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ftp://ftp.perforce.com/pub/jam
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* X11 libraries +headers
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http://www.x.org (or the older http://www.xfree86.org)
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* SDL 1.2.5 or later
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http://www.libsdl.org
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* Xerces-C
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http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/index.html
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* OpenAL
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http://www.openal.org
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* Ogg
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http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis
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* Vorbis
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http://www.vorbis.com
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If the configure script can't find some of the libraries, make sure that you
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also have the -dev packages installed that some distributions provide.
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At this point I'd like to thank all the authors of these helpful libraries
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that made our development easy and straightforward.
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2.2 Building
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To build and install the game use the following commands
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./configure
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jam
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Note: if you got the game from the subversion repository then you have to
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change to the mk/linux directory first and create a configure script:
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cd mk/linux
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./autogen.sh
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2.3 Installation
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Unfortunately there is no real installation mechanism present yet (jam install
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does NOT work correctly). Please copy the executable file named "glest" and the
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example linux config "glest.ini" into the directory where you extracted the
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datafiles and start the game there.
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3. Troubleshooting
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Some hints for troubleshooting.
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In General:
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* Make sure you fullfill the system requirement above
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* Sound is played through OpenAL you might take a look at your openal
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configuration: http://supertux.lethargik.org/wiki/OpenAL_Configuration
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Compiling:
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* If configure fails make sure you have read the Building section above
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* If you don't manage to get it compiled, you can get a precompiled version for
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x86 (32bit) at http://www.lifl.org
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Sound/Audio errors when starting
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* If the game doesn't start because of audio/sound errors:
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Make sure no other application is using your soundcard. Typical problems
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are the gnome/kde sound dameons esd and artsd. You can kill these 2
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daemons with
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killall esd ; killall artsd
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* If this doesn't solve your sound problems try to get an updated OpenAL from
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somewhere, unfortunately there hasn't been an official OpenAL version up to
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now so distributions are only packing some preliminary snapshots. Some
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distributions seem to have bad versions that don't work (SuSE 9.2 is such a
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distribution)
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(The compiled binary from lifl.org has openal included and should not be
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affected by this problem)
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The game complains about opengl1.3 not available, is missing opengl extensions
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or works very slowly
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* Make sure you fullfill the system requirements
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* look at glxinfo and make sure the system is using ATI or NVIDIA driver and NOT the
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mesa drivers ("glxinfo | grep -i mesa" should return nothing)
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The game crashs
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* Fedora3 seems to have problems with the precompiled glest binaries -> compile
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the application yourself
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* There are some bugs related to the font code which I can't reproduce and am
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unable to fix without further input. Someone can help me with this?
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* The game does not work on ppc (big endian architectures) yet
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* Check the forums at www.glest.org
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* It would be nice if you could report any other crashs that are not described
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here yet (or post them to the forum at www.glest.org) preferably with gdb
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backtrace from a debugging enabled build (configure --enable-debug)
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4. Contact
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Original Glest is from http://www.glest.org
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Linux port by Matthias Braun <matze@braunis.de> with help from
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Karl Robillard <krobbillard@san.rr.com>
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Mega-Glest by:
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Titus Tscharntke (info@titusgames.de)
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Mark Vejvoda (www.soft-haus.com - mark_vejvoda@hotmail.com )
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