OpenTTD on Linux

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 07 Mar 2004 15:49

For those who are interested and using Linux: I tried to compile it. Luckily, most work was done to get OpenTTD platform-independent, i.e. #ifdefs. After correcting the Makefile (removing unavailable files from it), and a minor bugfix, it compiled successfully. But then the linker came ... seems that an .c-file for OS specific routines for Linux doesn't exist

For Windows it's win32.c ...

To Ludde, when do you think have an linux.c ready and working?

Post by **orudge** » 07 Mar 2004 15:51

Can sdl.c not be coaxed to work?

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 07 Mar 2004 16:08

SDL causes no problems so far ... the problem is that win32.c also encapsulates things like file I/O, and so there's no file I/O for Linux at the moment ...

GoneWacko · Post by **GoneWacko** » 07 Mar 2004 17:44

if anyone ever gets it working, please make a tarball of the compiled binary...

I don't really know enough about compiling/linux to do it myself

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 07 Mar 2004 18:13

Compiling with Linux is easier than installing with Windows

When you have the tarball (when it's finished with linux.c

), just cd into the directory and type "make install". That's all

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 07 Mar 2004 19:07

Surely it would be better to put stuff like file I/O etc. into one file, and then get *that* to include the platform-specific bits.

Which platform-specific functions are in use there anyway?

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 07 Mar 2004 21:15

Ehm, wait a moment ... there are functions for palette, cursor, keys, windows, filesystem things, sound and exception handling.

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 08 Mar 2004 13:33

Ehm, wait a moment ... there are functions for palette, cursor, keys, windows, filesystem things, sound and exception handling.

I think that is possible to make cross platform is the right libraries are used. The question now: what library makes it possible

MadEgg · Post by **MadEgg** » 08 Mar 2004 13:35

It already is.. Look at the 'new release' thread by Ludde for a new release which should work on *nix

Slace · Post by **Slace** » 15 Mar 2004 10:21

so does OTTD work under linux? I really want to be able to use it on my laptop, which runs linux and I don't wanna mess around using WINE or anything

MadEgg · Post by **MadEgg** » 15 Mar 2004 13:32

Yup it works fine here. The 0.1 release does anyway, without any music. The latest release should have a working music-system. I'm gonna try that right now

GoneWacko · Post by **GoneWacko** » 15 Mar 2004 15:45

bah i'll just try
But i'll prolly never get it to work -_-

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 15 Mar 2004 18:34

What doesn't work - music or OTTD?

GoneWacko · Post by **GoneWacko** » 15 Mar 2004 19:08

Well I just tried it again this afternoon.

I did exactly what you told me to. I replaced sdl11 with sdl in the make file, and all that. First it gave me errors about GCC.

Then I reinstalled all GCC stuff I could find in YaST.
typed make again.
That wored. No more GCC errors.
But now it gives a hole load of SDL errors about a header file (SDL.h and SDL-Threads.h or something) being missing. I tried just about everything. Downloading the source of SDL and placing the .h file in the openttd dir, in some subdirectories, etc.

Nothing worked

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 15 Mar 2004 19:39

*wah* never reinstall GCC, it could end up dangerous ...
And which version do you want to compile? My last one is the 0.1 with unix.c (the second release here), because I have no SVN client ... You need the SDL development headers*, if you don't have them yet. Also try

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ls /usr/bin/sdl*config

on the shell. If no files are found, you don't have the headers. If a file was found, you need to write it in the Makefile, instead of sdl-config or sdl11-config.

*) this is not the same as downloading the SDL source. You may try to make and install SDL, if you don't get a package with development headers from your distribution.

GoneWacko · Post by **GoneWacko** » 16 Mar 2004 11:44

hmm. Well I am famous for messing up my system. (Prencher says)

Anyways, why would it be dangerous to reinstall GCC. If it would be dangerous, then why would it be in YaST ?

Whatever.
I'll try it again when I get home (at school now)

Slace · Post by **Slace** » 16 Mar 2004 11:50

since I'm confused on how to get it working does someone wanna point me to a guide of what to do, or post a version i can unrar and use?

MadEgg · Post by **MadEgg** » 16 Mar 2004 13:32

http://www.pointpro.nl/ttd.tgz

That's the binaries and other stuff you'll need.
The only thing you need to do is everything in the gm/ folder of your TTDX for Windows installation to the gm/ folder created after you unpack this file, and copy sample.cat and *.grf from your TTDX for Windows installation.

I would like to add 'm for you but I'm not gonna risk all the legal stuff, so you'll have to do that yourself.

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 16 Mar 2004 14:02

GoneWacko wrote: Anyways, why would it be dangerous to reinstall GCC. If it would be dangerous, then why would it be in YaST ?

Because GCC is a bit complicated and sensitive for different versions of it's main package, the compiler modules, the library, and so on. And then it's very difficult to find the source of your problems, because the compiler messages get microsoftified: they don't point to the right problem - the wrong library for example!

Anyway, the kernel is in YaST too, or isn't it?

I don't have SuSE, I hate it, it's like Windows ... it don't even lets you set the rights of your files, or edit something in /etc!

For the future: you never need to reinstall GCC. The worst thing is, that you need to update some special libraries, because they are outdated on your system.

Hajo · Post by **Hajo** » 16 Mar 2004 14:46

It isn't that bad - I compiled my own gcc versions in the past, and often even had different gcc versions installed in parallel.

It worked.

But I must admit, I don't have experience with the latest gcc versions, maybe it became more troublesome nowadays?

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