My first compile -- god help me

Mannequin · Post by **Mannequin** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:59 am

Ultraviolet wrote:As for ZDoom, though, I'm still stuck. Hmm, you know, once Vista becomes the necessary version of Windows, I bet THEN we'd win Graf and Randy over to Linux. Then... support.

Is ZDoom still giving you the same errors as you reported in the first post?

As far as Vista goes... Well, I hear lots of good and bad things about it. I won't be buying it for two reasons: I run Linux, and I can't stand how they've reworked things. But, I'm sure one of these days I'm going to get it with a new computer. At least then I can help my Mom and Dad with their Vista troubles... Which has been since the day they started using it.

-M.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:37 am

Mannequin wrote:At least then I can help my Mom and Dad with their Vista troubles... Which has been since the day they started using it.

And unless I miss my guess, almost every trouble is related to drivers or programs that don't support Vista.

Any new operating system is going to have issues coping with the existing software, and vice versa. That's why most people will recommend waiting until the first service patch before switching over.

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:47 am

Ultraviolet wrote:Hmm, you know, once Vista becomes the necessary version of Windows, I bet THEN we'd win Graf and Randy over to Linux. Then... support.

Sorry, Randy's already on Vista.

Post by **randi** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:09 pm

Nah, I'm still using XP. I played with the Vista RC1 a little for testing ZDoom compatibility, but I'm not ready to leave XP yet.

Lamneth · Post by **Lamneth** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:17 pm

I'll probably never switch to Vista unless I absolutely have to. Its too expensive, the system requirements are insane, lots of compatability is broken, and I'm perfectly fine with XP anyways. No point in switching if you don't need too.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:57 pm

Lamneth wrote:the system requirements are insane

Give it a year or two.

Mannequin · Post by **Mannequin** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:59 pm

HotWax wrote:
Mannequin wrote:At least then I can help my Mom and Dad with their Vista troubles... Which has been since the day they started using it.
And unless I miss my guess, almost every trouble is related to drivers or programs that don't support Vista.

Any new operating system is going to have issues coping with the existing software, and vice versa. That's why most people will recommend waiting until the first service patch before switching over.

That's basically what I told them. I told them to use XP until Vista grows up a bit... But being 3000 miles away doesn't help getting people to listen much.

Seriously, I think there was a lot of change just for change's sake in Vista and Office 2007.

I know he got the Vista subject started, but none of this helps Ultraviolet's ZDoom compiling troubles... Maybe just sending him a binary would help?

-M.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:16 pm

http://www.zdoom.org/files/zdoom-2.1.7.zip

Mannequin · Post by **Mannequin** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:47 pm

That looks to me like it could be a Windows binary.

Yeah... I see that smug smile on your face.

-M.

Ultraviolet · Post by **Ultraviolet** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:30 pm

Well, it IS a binary...

I'm getting more and more information on tweaking/securing WinXP lately, though (kinda necessary for my job), so I don't have too much trouble booting to Windows if I have to for this kind of thing.

Mannequin · Post by **Mannequin** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:28 pm

If anything, I or someone can pass along the Linux binary for you. All you have to do is supply the IWADs.

EDIT: Although, it will be for a version I got off of SVN...

-M.