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Hello,

 

I have browsed the wiki, searched the forum, but I couldn't find an answer: Is it possible to use the editor under Linux?

 

Checking out DarkRadiant from SVN worked - I just made the mistake following the instructions on the sourceforge page, and wondering why it took so long - I ended up getting about 2.3 Gigabyte :)

 

Now I have Doom3, DarkRadiant, and what now? Are there any tutorials for getting stuff to work under Linux? There doesn't seem to be a README or INSTALL file in the source as far as I can see.

 

I guess darkradiant/trunk/darkradiant is the current branch and I can get rid of everything else. It also seems that "scons" is needed, so I installed that. What now? *puzzled look*

 

Thanx in advance,

 

Tels

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Lets just try scons:

 

# scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
scons: building associated BuildDir targets: build/debug
gpp -o build/debug/plugins/archivezip/plugin.os -c -pipe -DPOSIX -DXWINDOWS -W -Wall -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wreorder -fPIC -g -D_DEBUG `xml2-config --cflags` -fPIC -Ibuild/debug/radiant -Iradiant -Ibuild/debug/include -Iinclude -Ibuild/debug/libs -Ilibs -Ibuild/debug/include -Iinclude plugins/archivezip/plugin.cpp
include/itextstream.h: In member function ‘virtual int TextInputStream::underflow()’:
include/itextstream.h:58: error: ‘assert’ was not declared in this scope
scons: *** [build/debug/plugins/archivezip/plugin.os] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

 

The gpp above is actually g plus plus, but the forum server really doesn't like when I insert this :/

 

So, something seems to be missing, but I have no idea yet what.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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It's definitely possible. Crispy, Orb and some others have more experience in running it under Linux. Proving a linux port is also on our list.

 

Ah good. Hopefully the people named can get in touch with me or point me in the right direction :)

 

All the best,

 

Tels

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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You can use DarkRadiant under Linux just fine, but you'll need to compile from source. For Ubuntu, I assembled this list of needed packages and attached it to the DarkRadiant Compilation Guide. Scons is of course required to compile it too.

 

As you guessed, the trunk/darkradiant is the branch to use here. The other branches are just for intermediate development steps, some get deleted after a while, some are still there - just ignore them.

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You can use DarkRadiant under Linux just fine, but you'll need to compile from source. For Ubuntu, I assembled this list of needed packages and attached it to the DarkRadiant Compilation Guide. Scons is of course required to compile it too.

 

As you guessed, the trunk/darkradiant is the branch to use here. The other branches are just for intermediate development steps, some get deleted after a while, some are still there - just ignore them.

 

Thanx, thats exactly what I was looking for. I will see how far I get after installing all this.

 

All the best,

 

Tels

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Thanx, thats exactly what I was looking for. I will see how far I get after installing all this.

 

All the best,

 

Tels

 

It seems that include/itextstream.h is missing #include <assert.h>, and after installing all the required libraries and making this modification, it seems to compile now.

 

So, where do I send the patch in? Is there a mailinglist somewhere? Or someone I need to send the patch to so it can be checked into svn?

 

All the best,

 

Tels

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"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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What environment are you using? I never had to include assert.h anywhere, isn't it provided by the compiler by default?

 

Good question. I am using g+ + 4.1.0 under Suse 10.1 (GAH! Everytime you use g+ + (without the space), the forum server cries :-)

 

Using simple "scons" makes it throw up that error about assert, a short googling lead me to some talk about "including assert.h", so I just included it and this fixed it.

 

At least "man assert" on my system says assert() is a macro defined in assert.h.

 

Anyway, I will try a release build soon and report tomorrow how far it did go (as it will take a while).

 

thanx a lot so far,

 

Tels

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"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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It seems you're really asking about the editor, not the Mod itself, but just to be clear: Several of us already have the Dark Mod compiled and working under Linux. I even do all my mod development under Linux. There are a few caveats; the lightgem isn't hooked up properly yet, for example; but we hope to have those ironed out before release.

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It seems you're really asking about the editor, not the Mod itself, but just to be clear: Several of us already have the Dark Mod compiled and working under Linux. I even do all my mod development under Linux. There are a few caveats; the lightgem isn't hooked up properly yet, for example; but we hope to have those ironed out before release.

 

Oh, I wouldn't mind about the Mod but as non-member I have only access to the editor - so I figured I start with that and see how far it goes :)

 

Speaking of that:

 

build/release/libs/libgtkutil.a(clipboard.o):(.data.rel.ro._ZTV17BufferInputStream[vtable for BufferInputStream]+0x30): undefined reference to `std::basic_streambuf<char, std::char_traits<char> >::seekoff(long long, std::_Ios_Seekdir, std::_Ios_Openmode)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
scons: *** [build/release/darkradiant] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

 

As far as I can see all the relevant libs are installed, so that error puzzles me. Since I am unfamiliar with scons, will have to dig a bit to see what lib could be missing. Does that ring any bell with someone familiar with linux?

 

PS: This is a 64bit environment, although most of the 32bit libs are also installed. However, I have no idea on wether scons attempts a 64bit or 32bit build - hopefully it leaves a log or something telling me what it attempts to build.

 

All the best,

 

Tels

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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The error suggests that the STL implementation is missing, but I assume google can give you some clues on what's missing.

 

Whether the build is 64 or 32 bits depends on your compiler installation. I had a 64-bit DarkRadiant build working on my AMD64 Ubuntu a few months ago, so it should work.

 

Maybe there are some gcc 64 bit libraries missing? I can't remember but maybe I installed something like that additionally to the packages mentioned on the wiki. Sorry that I'm not much of a help here, I haven't installed Linux on my laptop yet.

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The error suggests that the STL implementation is missing, but I assume google can give you some clues on what's missing.

 

Whether the build is 64 or 32 bits depends on your compiler installation. I had a 64-bit DarkRadiant build working on my AMD64 Ubuntu a few months ago, so it should work.

 

Maybe there are some gcc 64 bit libraries missing? I can't remember but maybe I installed something like that additionally to the packages mentioned on the wiki. Sorry that I'm not much of a help here, I haven't installed Linux on my laptop yet.

 

The STL should be installed, but I am still trying to figure out whats exactly the problem is. Google wasn't that enlightening so far. (I generally only have the 64bit versions of everything installed, with only a few 32bit compat libraries).

 

In related news, I noticed a lot of compiler warnings, should I created patches to silence them? And if, where should I send them?

 

All the best,

 

Tels

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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In related news, I noticed a lot of compiler warnings, should I created patches to silence them? And if, where should I send them?

 

Assuming that by "silence" you mean "fix the code" rather than "disable the warning", you are welcome to send patches to either me or Greebo in a PM or through the forum. If you wanted to get more involved in development you could be set up as a contributor and have access to the coding forums as well.

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Bit ot, but >>

just dl'd dark radiant sources via subversion and

started compile with command scons BUILD="release".

I get an error almost immediately with message:

 

scons: Reading SConscript files ...

Command line: BUILD="release"

scons: done reading SConscript files.

scons: Building targets ...

scons: building associated BuildDir targets: build/release

scons: *** [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/usr/src/darkradiant2/darkradiant/libs/string'

scons: building terminated because of errors.

 

How can I fix this problem/error?

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That error happens with the newer version of Scons (0.97 I think), with 0.96 it does not occur. I think Greebo had a fix which involved changing the SConscript, but I can't remember what it was.

 

Maybe it is not such a good idea having a directory "string" in the include path, when <string> is also a standard include name. It should probably be called "stringutil" or similar.

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Yes, that's some scons weirdness. I could fix it this way:

 

@scons: I encountered that issue as well and could resolve it by adding a 

module_env.Dir('libs/string')

at the module_env = g_env.Copy() statement to force scons somehow into this. If you're building on an AMD64 it's also necessary to add the -fPIC position-independent code switch as standard, otherwise the linker will throw up.

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Assuming that by "silence" you mean "fix the code" rather than "disable the warning", you are welcome to send patches to either me or Greebo in a PM or through the forum. If you wanted to get more involved in development you could be set up as a contributor and have access to the coding forums as well.

 

Of course, "silence" means either "fix the problem" or tell the bloody compiler "there is no problem", as appropriate :) For now, I am trying to get it to compile first :)

 

Bed time now, I will get back tomorrow.

 

All the best,

 

Tels

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Bed time now, I will get back tomorrow.

 

Bah, empty threats! :ph34r:

 

In the meantime my computer suffered a CPU update (failed due to missing BIOS support for the shiny new dual-core :( ), a rescue BIOS update, that failed, a power-failure while trying to backup data, corrupting the ReiserFS in my original encrypted install :angry:, an intermidiate windows installation on a third HD just to update the BIOS, an finally updated BIOS, a memory stick failure, leaving my system with only one GB, and finally three Kubuntu 64 bit installations until I got it working properly with encryption. :wacko:

 

Apart from half the main memory missing, all is well now system-wise. :D

 

Right now Adept pulls down all the required packages for compiling DarkRadiant, and I still need to install Doom 3, import all my email, and do tons of system tweaks.

 

So, it might take a while longer until I report back for duty :)

 

Thanx for your patience,

 

Tels

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Urk! How annoying. I hope you didn't lose any important data.

 

Good luck with getting up-and-running again. :)

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Urk! How annoying. I hope you didn't lose any important data.

 

Good luck with getting up-and-running again. :)

 

Got the email, the pgp-key, the photos, my firefox data, guess the rest wasn't important :) But then, maybe I can repair my old partition and access the rest of the data.

 

Related good news:

 

scons: done building targets.

 

Yeah! (But you should have warned me that it takes a small cluster to finish the compile in under one day....)

 

Now I just need to figure out how to install Doom 3 under Kubuntu...

 

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showtopic=6572&hl=

 

All the best,

 

Tels

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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