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cwblanch
June 24th, 2015, 07:16 PM
Hey,

I wasn't too sure where to post this, but since I'm not actually asking for a way to do it I decided on the Cafe.

How do people port games into Linux to work natively?
I'm a loong way off from being able to do something like that so I just want to know what the general process is and if it's really difficult or depends on the game/system or what.

Do you have to rewrite all the code for the game or is there a program you can run it through?

This is something I'm pretty interested in cause while I'm learning code a mental goal for me is to be able to make a cross platform game of some kind.

mips
June 24th, 2015, 09:07 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/14j9ed/how_difficult_is_it_to_port_a_game_from_windows/
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-games-dont-get-ported-to-linuxa.html