Howto apply a patch/diff file

Benbo · Post by **Benbo** » 30 Jan 2006 18:07

See the bottom of my post, above yours.

Leviath.NL · Post by **Leviath.NL** » 30 Jan 2006 18:23

first type cd trunk

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 30 Jan 2006 18:33

Yeah, except that, at least last time I checked, on 98, Cygwin's PATH is ./

Exactly ./, and nothing else. So you have to explicitly specify the path to any binary not in ./

eg /usr/bin/make clean
or /bin/make clean
or something like that.

Leviath.NL · Post by **Leviath.NL** » 30 Jan 2006 20:26

When I download a patch its most of the time a patch/diff file with an exefile what to do with the exe?

for instance:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=23165

I managed to make openttd work with this patch by deleting the old openttd.exe and replacinging it with the one from the link, did the same with the files in the /lang map.

but how to aplly multiple patches with more than 1 .exe file?

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 30 Jan 2006 21:24

Download the source, download and apply the patch files, compile the patched source.

Leviath.NL · Post by **Leviath.NL** » 30 Jan 2006 21:31

but if i got for example 3 opentdd.exe's and 3 times the map lang what to do with them?

webfreakz.nl · Post by **webfreakz.nl** » 30 Jan 2006 21:35

There's only 1 language-map appropriate to 1 openttd.exe (in most cases as the language files are updated frequently).

Just copy your fresh compiled openttd.exe to your C:\$games\openttd (in my case), copy the language files to C:\$games\openttd\lang\ and start your game?

Otherwise, I can't figure out where it goes wrong at yours'

Leviath.NL · Post by **Leviath.NL** » 31 Jan 2006 12:18

ok, one last question is it possible to support png sceenshots in your own compiled (Cygwin) openttd?

egladil · Post by **egladil** » 31 Jan 2006 14:25

Yes, if you have libpng and its headers installed.

Sacro · Post by **Sacro** » 31 Jan 2006 17:17

It used to be no, due to cygwins libpng not being totally compatible, though that might have changed, and the Wiki may need updating.

comrade-max · Post by **comrade-max** » 27 Mar 2006 16:26

i have some experience of modding and patching games and their assosiated communities, first id like to say that ottd is an awsome ideal, as are these patches, but to make them more accesable a simpler way of applying them is needed, whether it be by a batch file or similar or a whole third party program

Brianetta · Post by **Brianetta** » 27 Mar 2006 22:29

Trouble with that is that totally different batch files or programs would be required for every platform that the game is supported by. Batch files only work on DOS and NT based operating systems, for example.

As they are, diffs are about as portable a solution as we have.

egladil · Post by **egladil** » 28 Mar 2006 07:33

And if you meant patching the binaries, that would be even harder as the binaries are completly different on different platforms and would force a whole lot of extra work on the patch author. Then he might as well release binaries directly. (Which some do.) But it really is a lot more work to build a copy for each supported platform than to just type svn diff in the source dir. And as diffs are much more portable and really not that hard to use (Three commands if your computer is setup properly before: svn co, patch, make) it really isn't to much to expect people to manage to do that themselves.

darkpella · Post by **darkpella** » 20 Apr 2006 15:18

Hi,
I'm trying to checkout OTTD to my pc, but when I try connecting to svn.openttd.org I get the following error: "Error: Can't connect to host 'svn.openttd.org': Impossibile stabilire la connessione. Risposta non corretta della parte connessa dopo l'intervallo di tempo oppure mancata risposta dall'host collegato. " It's Italian, and the trasnlation should read as "Unable establish connection. Wrong reply on connected side after time interval or connection timed out".
I can access svn.openttd.org through FireFox and http though.
any idea about hat might be wrong?

Thanks

darkpella

darkpella · Post by **darkpella** » 20 Apr 2006 15:39

I also tried with svn://us.svn.openttd.org/trunk and svn://nl.svn.openttd.org/trunk but got the same error message.

Now another problem is, I tried downloading the latest release src from sourceforge and then tried using Tortoiseto patch it, but it then tries to fetch (from the inernet?) a certain revision of the files to be patched. I get told that it cant retriev such revisions, hence parching is not possible, and that the dir where I put the src i downloaded is not a working copy

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 20 Apr 2006 15:41

you tried "svn://svn.openttd.org/trunk" or "http://svn.openttd.org/trunk" and not only "svn.openttd.org" ?

edit: writen to slow

darkpella · Post by **darkpella** » 20 Apr 2006 15:51

Tried with the proper url (ie. svn://....)

darkpella · Post by **darkpella** » 20 Apr 2006 16:54

Ooops, looks like PerrGuardian blocks taffic to svn.openttd.org

. Added it into an allowed ip list and everything now works fine,excpet that I have to make my way through conflicts

.
Do you know whether I can find good docs about OTTD source (at least the offial src, guess I't will be a bit more difficult for patches)

gigajum · Post by **gigajum** » 20 Apr 2006 17:23

the nightly source doc http://nightly.openttd.org/devs/docs/ but if they are good is another question. The best doc is IMO the source itself with it comments, but the source ist quite big and so you've got a lot to read. But reading the code is not the same like working with the code, at least for me.

Loop · Post by **Loop** » 20 Apr 2006 18:03

When I try to compile the source with cygwin I get this error.

Why? What's the problem?

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