[News Post] New website and nightlies are back

[TrueBrain]

Great! Where are the Linux Nightlies?

There are none! The way we used to create them, turned out to only work on a very few Linux OSes. So someone (not me ) should invest some time creating a Docker for us that produce Linux binaries that run on many more systems. This issue is tracked here: https://github.com/OpenTTD/CompileFarm/issues/22

Any and all contributions are welcome

[leifbk]

I've managed to compile the nightlies as well as the new 1.9.0-beta2 on my Gentoo Linux x86-64 system. I'm just wondering what I need to run it. Is it sufficient to keep the /bundle directory, or do I need some more, eg. the /media directory? I can't find anything about it in the documentation, and the directory structure after "make install" is quite different from what I'm used to from the old generic nightlies.

[Eddi]

you can run the game directly from the place where you compiled with "bin/openttd" or "make run" (the latter also automatically recompiles if you made changes)

[leifbk]

you can run the game directly from the place where you compiled with "bin/openttd"

That's basically what I'm doing right now, or actually I've copied the entire build directory from my /home/leif to /usr/local/games/ and run it from there. I don't like to run executables from /home. That wasn't what my question was about. I asked what parts of the build directory constitutes the actual installation after I've run "./configure; make; make install". The source code and the build files are basically clutter when you're done with building the binaries.

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leif@balapapa ~/projects/openttd $ ls -l openttd-1.9.0-beta2
total 952
drwxr-xr-x  3 leif users   4096 feb.   9 22:41 azure-pipelines
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   1596 feb.   9 22:41 azure-pipelines-ci.yml
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users    160 feb.   9 22:41 azure-pipelines-release-stable.yml
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users    121 feb.   9 22:41 azure-pipelines-release.yml
drwxr-xr-x  7 leif users   4096 feb.  11 15:17 bin
drwxr-xr-x 10 leif users   4096 feb.  11 15:18 bundle
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users 520450 feb.   9 22:41 changelog.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   1751 feb.  11 15:14 config.cache
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users     48 feb.  11 15:14 config.cache.pwd
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users  22990 feb.  11 15:14 config.cache.source.list
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users 113589 feb.   9 22:41 config.lib
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   7566 feb.  11 15:14 config.log
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users      0 feb.  11 15:14 config.pwd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 leif users   6123 feb.   9 22:41 configure
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   9012 feb.   9 22:41 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users  18211 feb.   9 22:41 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x  3 leif users   4096 feb.   9 22:41 docs
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users  12855 feb.   9 22:41 Doxyfile
-rwxr-xr-x  1 leif users   3228 feb.   9 22:41 findversion.sh
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users  24414 feb.   9 22:41 known-bugs.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   7621 feb.  11 15:14 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users    457 feb.  11 15:14 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users  10992 feb.  11 15:14 Makefile.bundle
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users  10992 feb.   9 22:41 Makefile.bundle.in
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   4471 feb.   9 22:41 Makefile.grf.in
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   6742 feb.   9 22:41 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   3537 feb.   9 22:41 Makefile.lang.in
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   1696 feb.   9 22:41 Makefile.msvc
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users   3004 feb.   9 22:41 Makefile.setting.in
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users  11070 feb.   9 22:41 Makefile.src.in
drwxr-xr-x  4 leif users   4096 feb.  11 15:18 media
drwxr-xr-x  6 leif users   4096 feb.  11 15:14 objs
drwxr-xr-x  9 leif users   4096 feb.   9 22:41 os
drwxr-xr-x  2 leif users   4096 feb.   9 22:41 projects
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users  39249 feb.   9 22:41 README.md
-rw-r--r--  1 leif users  22990 feb.   9 22:41 source.list
drwxr-xr-x 25 leif users  20480 feb.  11 15:14 src

Do I really need all this to run openttd? I can of course experiment to find out, but I thought someone here were able to give me a quick answer.

[andythenorth]

Do I really need all this to run openttd? I can of course experiment to find out, but I thought someone here were able to give me a quick answer.

The Mac build has a 'make bundle' target which produces a bundle dir, containing what is needed to run OpenTTD, including media dir etc.

That target is possibly available on other platforms, give it a go?

[jfs]

Nothing outside of bin/ is required to run the game. There are also a few things inside bin/ that aren't required to run it (mainly the regression tests under bin/ai/) but try copying out just bin/.

[planetmaker]

On our servers I run

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make bundle

and copy that dir to where I run the server from. The bundle target is mean to provide just that: everything needed to run the game in one dir.

On my PC I just call make and then start the binary in bin:

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./bin/openttd

[leifbk]

On our servers I run

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make bundle

and copy that dir to where I run the server from. The bundle target is mean to provide just that: everything needed to run the game in one dir.

Thank you very much, that was exactly the kind of answer I was hoping for

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leif@balapapa ~ $ ls -l /usr/local/games/openttd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 feb.  20 19:19 /usr/local/games/openttd -> openttd-1.9.0-beta2-bundle
leif@balapapa ~ $ ls -l /usr/local/games/openttd-1.9.0-beta2-bundle/
total 8276
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 feb.  20 18:40 ai
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 feb.  20 18:40 baseset
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  520450 feb.  20 18:40 changelog.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   18211 feb.  20 18:40 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 feb.  20 18:40 docs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 feb.  20 18:40 game
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   24414 feb.  20 18:40 known-bugs.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 feb.  20 18:40 lang
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 feb.  20 18:40 man
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 feb.  20 18:40 media
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7830712 feb.  20 18:40 openttd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   39249 feb.  20 18:40 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 feb.  20 18:40 scripts

This looks a lot cleaner

[jfs]

There was an issue with the website not being updated for almost a month, so the nightlies didn't pop up for download (despite being built and uploaded), that should be fixed now. Nightlies are back again-again