Minor Linux Help

[Baker]

Can someone with Linux recompile the Tyrlite tool after changing a constant in bspfile.h to 8192:

#define MAX_MAP_ENTITIES 2048

And change it to ...

#define MAX_MAP_ENTITIES 8192

Source code: http://www.disenchant.net/files/util...ils-0.4.tar.gz

I'd pull it into Visual Studio and recompile it except that I'd have to mess with it to change some of the gcc-specificness to MSVC friendly stuff and that would take an hour or 2 that I could more usefully use towards other things I am trying to get done.

Thanks to any takers.

/This is for RickyT23 who has made a few Q1 awesome maps like Stark Monstrocity and such and I guess he's hitting a wall with some map he is currently making.

[lennox]

Here ya go:
http://www.disenchant.net/files/util...ils-0.4.tar.gz

[lennox]

my bad pasted the same link on accident, here ya go:
Download tyrutils-0.4-8192.tar.tar.gz for free on uploading.com

[Baker]

Thanks Lennox.

I blew it though. I didn't indicate that I needed Windows .exe compiled from it via Linux.

But it's ok, I managed to do that via Cygwin.

/I really need to someway, somehow get back to having a Linux machine available. Really ...

[dfsp_spirit]

I really need to someway, somehow get back to having a Linux machine available. Really ...

Either use virtualization and install virtualbox under Windows, I can upload a debian image for you if you want (or you can easily create your own, just grab the Debian netinstaller ISO).


Or get (K)Ubuntu, the normal installer CDs support installing linux to a file on your Windows partition.

Both methods are fast, secure and easy. No need to create new partitions and stuff like that.

[golden_boy]

Yes, get Sun Virtualbox. It is very easy to set up and has a wizard which helps you to create virtual machines. You need nothing besides the vbox program.

I have Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala running under Virtualbox in Gentoo, and I'm almost using Ubuntu more now. It installs just like on a real computer. Just keep clicking OK during install.

Ubuntu runs with 384 MB of virtual memory and an 8 GB harddisk image here. No problems. It should even install with 256 MB. You won't be able to run games though, there is no high quality virtual graphics card in Virtualbox ;-)

Ubuntu comes with the gcc compiler. You should also be able to install Wine so you can run Windows apps under Linux under Windows.

Virtualbox is, amazingly enough, free.

The other method is to dual boot Ubuntu. If you still have some space on your harddisk, you can install Ubuntu alongside Windows.

I can recommend plain Ubuntu, the Gnome desktop environment is superb and you have easy access to the very good onboard help and all configuration and maintenance tools from the menu.

When you installed something in Virtualbox, make sure to also install the Virtualbox guest extensions in the guest OS. Virtualbox has a menu option for that. These allow you higher resolutions, fullscreen and the seamless mouse function.

Edit: You can install OSes from CD/DVD images with Virtualbox. No need for burning. You'll just need to edit the VM's settings and point its CD slot to the image. You can install as many OSes as you want, Virtualbox will keep track of all of them. I have FreeBSD, Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu installed atm.

I don't know if you can install Snow Leopard under Virtualbox though.

Edit 2: There is really no more excuse for devs to not test their stuff under Linux now. Both Virtualbox and Ubuntu are FREE.

[Efess]

You both read my mind. Install some kind of virtualization and run linux in windows. Never used virtualbox, I use (FREE!) VMware's Player all the time both at work and home. Its fast, supports hardware virtualization (if you have it), and even supports hardware graphics acceleration.

A lot of distros let you download a vmware disk image that comes with everything already installed.

Dualbooting is a PITA, and computers are fast enough these days to just run a virtual box without any slowdown of the host (especially if you have hardware virtualization)

[Spirit]

VirtualBox has the bonus that a Free and Open-Source version is available.
It too is fast, supports hardware virtualization (if you have it) and supports hardware graphics acceleration (for Windows guests at least).

vmware is only free of cost.

[Efess]

I'll have to give it a shot. Does it use its own disk image format? Can it read VMware images?

[Baker]

I'm going to give VirtualBox a shot. I feel bad because I've neglected, among other things, the Linux version of ProQuake and other types of Linux engine development just due to lack of such a machine.

I'll post any questions I have in the next few days in this thread.

[golden_boy]

I think for games, dual booting is just nicer because you can run the OS at maximum speed with a proper graphics card driver. It's true that having to shut down and restart sucks, though.

Virtualbox was impressive because it's so easy to use.

I'm waiting for the next Ubuntu upgrade before switching from Gentoo, though. I hear there are often problems with those. I'll also have to compare FPS in games with both OSes installed in a dual boot, to allow for a fair comparison. Ubuntu's out-of-the-box runnability combined with the underlying time-tested Debian system is just very nice. I have less and less time to mess with the requirements of running Gentoo (although the current Gentoo/virtualBuntu combo is also pretty nice). The main benefit of 6 years of Gentoo is that I can make a distro such as Ubuntu sing and dance.

If you look at Ubuntu's default configuration and consider the availability of Debian's apt-get and other stuff, like a compiler that's installed by default (unlike on Fedora and SuSE...), it's not really a newbie distro. It's just very accessible. Quite an accomplishment - I could for example switch the language to Danish very simply, and it even changed the friggin' spell checker in Open Office automatically. Impressive.

Fedora is nice, too, and very similar, but the installer is buggy and some other things as well. The default installation isn't as good as Ubuntu's.

[Efess]

Yea dual booting is only necessary if you really need the speed for, like you said, games. Usually you'd just make that OS your main OS anyway, unless you're Bi-OS-polar and need to switch it up once in a while : P

[Dreadlorde]

Ubuntu != Debian.

[Baker]

This so far is going fairly well, I have Damn Small Linux running in Virtual Box but I will posting questions because Mithril helped setup my Linux last time around and I can't compile.

But it looks like I can resume Linux activities again

/Running Ubuntu in VirtualBox seems off limits because I can't allocate the kind of RAM that is required.

[Dreadlorde]

iirc DSL uses a 2.4 kernel. You might want to try TinyCore linux, it uses a 2.6 kernel, and is only 10MB. It's fairly easy to get a full toolchain with it's package manager. DSL also won't have any sound system that is still in use.