Terminus Est: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 20:18, 11 February 2007

Terminus Est is John's awesome space shooter. See his Soloforge website.

Mike is hoping to help John build Terminus under linux. We'll need fmod and SDL.

Terminus SDL and fmod under linux (done)

Terminus autotools setup (done)

Terminus Making the code portable to linux (done)

Go to Soloforge for the latest updates!

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 Terminus Est is John's awesome space shooter.  See [http://soloforge.com his Soloforge website].
-I am hoping to help him build it under linux.  Here's John's "getting started" list...
+Mike is hoping to help John build Terminus under linux.
+We'll need fmod and SDL.
- There is some stuff in here on getting set up to build SDL apps with
+[[Terminus SDL and fmod under linux]] (done)
- KDeveloper: http://gpwiki.org/index.php/SDL
- You will need SDL, plus the SDL_image and SDL_gfx support libs.
- Available from: http://www.libsdl.org/index.php
- And the FMOD sound system from http://www.fmod.org.
+[[Terminus autotools setup]] (done)
-Typically I'll be using either Fedora or Gentoo during my porting effort.
+[[Terminus Making the code portable to linux]] (done)
+Go to [http://soloforge.com Soloforge] for the latest updates!
-'''FEDORA'''
-'''1''' Install SDL and fmod, so easy!!
- yum install SDL_gfx
- yum install SDL_image
- yum install fmod
- Mar 19 22:42:01 Installed: SDL_gfx.i386 2.0.13-2.2.fc4.rf
- Mar 19 22:45:23 Installed: SDL_image.i386 1.2.4-1.2.fc4.rf
- Mar 19 23:11:05 Installed: fmod.i386 3.74.1-1.2.fc4.rf
-J: Huh.  Does that yum app go out and get the latest version too?  Slick.
-I will get some source control up and running today.
-M: yep it auto-updates everything to the latest stable versions, including tracking down dependencies.
-'''2''' Grab the source - John is using subversion - very l337!
- yum install subversion
- cd development
- mkdir terminus
- cd terminus
- svn checkout http://xxxxx/terminus/
-and there it is!
-'''3''' Build it
-sdl-config tells you what you need on the gcc command line:
- [m@thedigitalmachine terminus]$ sdl-config --libs
- -L/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread
- [m@thedigitalmachine terminus]$ sdl-config --static-libs
- -L/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread -lm -ldl -lasound -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext