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116 lines
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MegaGlest
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by Titus Tscharntke and Mark Vejvoda
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original Glest linux port
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by Matthias Braun
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1. System requirements
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Developed on Linux with glibc, little endian cpu. While MacIntel builds exist,
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the game does not currently work on big endian CPUs like PPC. There are some
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unfinished patches floating around the glest board, so this might improve (feel
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free to send updated/finished PPC patches).
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Graphics card + OpenGL libraries that support OpenGL 1.3 and shader extensions
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(=OpenGL 1.4 or glUseProgramObjectARB etc.)
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The app has been reported to run fine on a 900Mhz Athlon box with Nvidia GeForce
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3 graphics card.
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It seems that the game also runs on GeForce 2 and GeForce Mx class hardware when
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you disable 3D textures and shadow maps in the options menu. The game seems not
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to work with the open source (ATI) DRI drivers. It has reported to run nicely
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with ATIs proprietary drivers though.
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2. Building and Installation
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2.1 Prerequesites
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The game depends on some tools and libraries to be present, before you can
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start compiling it. Here's a list of them:
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* normal GNU compiler and additional tools (g++ version 3.2 or later is
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required at the moment)
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* Kitware CMake 2.8 or later (used as build tool)
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* X11 libraries +headers
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http://x.org/ (or the older http://xfree86.org/)
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* SDL 1.2.5 or later
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http://libsdl.org/
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* Xerces-C
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http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/
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* OpenAL
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http://openal.org/
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* Ogg
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http://xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/
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* Vorbis
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http://vorbis.com/
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If the configure script can't find some of the libraries, make sure that you
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also have the -dev packages installed that some distributions provide.
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At this point I'd like to thank all the authors of these helpful libraries
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that made our development easy and straight forward.
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2.2 Building
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To build the game simply invoke the build script:
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./build-mg.sh
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2.3 Installation
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We provide MojoSetup based installers for Linux. By default, they install to
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your home directory. There are also community maintained packages available for
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several distributions. Please see the forums and wiki for details.
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3. Troubleshooting
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Some hints for troubleshooting.
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In General:
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* Make sure you fullfill the system requirements above
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* Sound is played through OpenAL - you might need to take a look at your
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configuration: http://supertux.lethargik.org/wiki/OpenAL_Configuration
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Compiling:
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* If configure fails make sure you have read the Building section above
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Sound/Audio errors when starting:
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* If the game doesn't start because of audio/sound errors:
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Make sure no other application is using your soundcard. Typical problems are
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the Gnome/KDE sound dameons esd and artsd. You can kill these daemons with
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killall esd ; killall artsd
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* If this doesn't solve your sound problems try to get an updated OpenAL from
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http://openal.org or a newer repository provided by your distribution.
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The game complains about OpenGL1.3 not available, is missing OpenGL extensions
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or works very slowly:
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* Make sure your system provides for the system requirements
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* Look at glxinfo and make sure the system is using the drivers you want to
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use. Often the proprietary ATI or NVIDIA drivers work better, but for Intel,
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mesa drivers ("glxinfo | grep -i mesa") can work, too (though slowly due to
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limited abilities of these chipsets).
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The game crashes:
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* Check the forums at http://forums.megaglest.org/
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* It would be nice if you could report any other crashes and freezes that are
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not yet described on the forums, preferably with a gdb backtrace from a
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debugging enabled build (cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo)
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4. Contact
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Original Glest is from http://glest.org/
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Linux port by:
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Matthias Braun <matze@braunis.de> with help from
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Karl Robillard <krobbillard@san.rr.com>
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MegaGlest by:
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Titus Tscharntke (info@titusgames.de)
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Mark Vejvoda (www.soft-haus.com - mark_vejvoda@hotmail.com)
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