FreedroidRPG - my first COMPILED game :-D

[dfreer]

Originally Posted by Beren Camlost He is just compiling it. And he is proub of it I was too the first time I managed to compile a program. I like this tread and his input here, and also his efforts of making a .deb of it. I have a lot to learn in that department

See, now I thought it was the OP's first program, and then I go to look at the screenshots... Definitely not the "Hello, world" I remember!

Nice job on compiling and making your first .deb!

[perixx]

ldd ./freedroidRPG

MANY THANKS, dfreer!!
This command is really a hot piece of hint! =)))

With this little helper, I can go for more soon...
Btw., what can I do if I have some dependency-collisions with different versions of installed and needed packages? Do I need a cross-compiler for that?

Oh and, how and where can I upload a .deb package for others to share it? Using the forum's attachment function doesn't work somehow...


perixx

[Vadi]

Look into Launchpad.net's PPA (Personal Package Archive) program.

[perixx]

Thx Vadi, for the hint - I'll do that anytime soon!

Here's another good forum link on solving dependency problems along the hard compilation way:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=ubuntu+upload


perixx

[perixx]

I've been successful in compiling the Subversion/SVN (formerly CVS) developer's version in the meantime:

1. subversion has to be installed via Synaptic.

2. the following command at a terminal is needed:

svn co https://freedroid.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freedroid ~/SVN/FD

It will 'checkout' (download) the latest source files from sourceforge to the stated folder: ~/SVN/FD (can be changed of course).

3. in the terminal, go to ~/SVN/FD (or folder where freedroidRPG-files reside) and type:

sh autogen.sh

now wait till it's finished.
NOTE:You may need to install 'autotools', along with some other packages, via Synaptic; refer to this link here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...56&postcount=3

For additionally required dependencies, see post #16 below!

4. Next type this command and wait till it's done:

./configure

Afterwards you type and wait for

make

Should you get some weird warning message like mentioned here, simply ignore it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=643548
NOTE: The game should already run by now, when going into the /src folder and running 'freedroidRPG'!

5. If you like to install it and create a .deb package, run

checkinstall

Note: if there are several different versions named, type the menu-number that refers to the stored versions and re-type it, so it only shows up once in the 'checkinstall' menu. Commence.

After finished, you should have a new .deb package availible, along with an installed new version of freedroidRPG! You should be able to find the binary in /usr/local/bin/freedroidRPG and make a starter to there, the actual game files reside in /usr/local/share/freedroidrpg.

Happy gaming / creating levels for the devels
perixx

[stedevil]

I posted this to the FDRPG maillist a while back, but I guess it cant hurt to repeat it here.

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Compile FreedroidRPG from source
Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron. (Should work on other versions as well, do let us know)

1) First lets ensure you got the required Ubuntu packages for compiling FreedroidRPG.

Open a terminal window/console and:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libsdl1.2-dev libjpeg62-dev zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev

For sound you also need

sudo apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2-dev

2) Download latest sources (freedroidrpg-*.tar.bz2) and extract/unpack it.

https://sourceforge.net/project/show...ckage_id=58238

3) cd to the folder you just extracted in a terminal window/console and

./configure
make

4) To play just

cd src/
./freedroidRPG

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Instead of step 4, one can also sudo make install , but usually it's more convenient to just run from the source location since you might update often and you dont risk problems with your package manager installing conflicting versions. The above mentioned checkinstall tool works too.

For SVN, add the relevant sections (1-3) from the post above mine (installing SVN, checkout of the source and ./autogen.sh). You will however need to also install autotools for compiling the SVN version.

sudo apt-get install autoconf

If you try this with other versions of Ubuntu than 8.04, please post your success including any modifications to above procedure you might have needed to make it work.

[perixx]

A little off-topic, but related to use FD under Ubuntu (localized):

Quoting from the README in your FD folder:

Changing language in game will not work by default since Ubuntu does not ship with standard ISO locales, only UTF-8 versions. You will have to manually add them to make language selection work. Procedure: 1) In commandline write sudo nano /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local 2) Add the locales you are interested in, 1 entry on each line, e.g. de_DE ISO-8859-15 fr_FR ISO-8859-15 sv_SE ISO-8859-15 ru_RU.cp1251 cp1251 and then exit with ctrl+x and yes to saving the changes.

Now run your game and choose your preferred language in the Options menu.

NOTE: In the current version 0.12rc1, all localization support has been disabled. You'd need to manually compile a SVN revision prior to rev1819 or wait till this gets fixed again.

Happy gaming!

[stedevil]

Originally Posted by perixx NOTE: In the current version 0.12rc1, all localization support has been disabled. You'd need to manually compile a SVN revision prior to rev1819 or wait till this gets fixed again.

Slightly incorrect. 0.12rc1 DOES have localization (translations) included. They were however cut from 0.12 Final mainly because in general not being anywhere near release ready.

Once the translations get properly up to date we will add downloadable language packs. Before that, even while using SVN, the game experience will be quite lacking compared to English (the text stings missing will be falling back to original English, creating a mixed language situation, and the translated parts might in some cases be completely wrong due to changes in the game).

Assistance with translations is of course gladly accepted to speed up this process.

PS For having access to the half finished translations in latest SVN, recompile after removing the "// disabled-v0.12" at the start of the lines in src/vars.h for the language(s) you are interested in.

// disabled-v0.12	{ .code="fr_FR", .name="French", .font_class="", .encoding="ISO-8859-15" },
// disabled-v0.12	{ .code="de_DE", .name="Deutsch", .font_class="", .encoding="ISO-8859-15" },
// disabled-v0.12	{ .code="sv_SE", .name="Swedish", .font_class="", .encoding="ISO-8859-15" },
// disabled-v0.12	{ .code="ru_RU.cp1251", .name="Russian", .font_class=".cp1251", .encoding="cp1251" },

[stinkyfishheadisred]

For the latest version in the Ubuntu repositories (as of this post it was 0.10.3-3 for Ubuntu 8.04) you can always use the apt packages. If you are running Ubuntu with Firefox, all you have to do is open apt:freedroidrpg in the browser and it should start a graphical download process.

[stedevil]

Sadly FreedroidRPG is not backported, so older *buntu versions have really outdated versions. Even brand new versions are rarely up to date, due to the time lag introduced from the long winding process of:
New package in Debian -> Debian release freeze -> Debian stability test -> New package in Ubuntu -> Ubuntu release freeze -> Ubuntu stability test.

This creates a very stable and well tested system, but is very bad for a non system critical software like eg a game that is under heavy development.