The official "ZDoom on Linux" thread.

Doomguy0505 · Post by **Doomguy0505** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:19 am

Why would a program written in a high level language like C++ not work on a 64-bit architechture?

QBasicer · Post by **QBasicer** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:52 am

I guess there's some crazy stuff you have to do to get a 64bit version of ZDoom to link with a 32bit binary library (like FMod). I personally don't have 64 bit, but that's just what a friend of mine says.

Besides, why are we even using FMod, what's wrong with say OpenAL?

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:21 pm

It doesn't support so much audio formats, I suppose.

stevenaaus · Post by **stevenaaus** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:55 pm

Doomguy0505 wrote:Why would a program written in a high level language like C++ not work on a 64-bit architechture?

Umm.. Though C++ is OO, C's pretty low level, and Games ditto. Doing funky things with memory and type casts in a hurry will give you issues pretty quick.

stevenaaus · Post by **stevenaaus** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:59 pm

Some of the mods i've tried out seem to have issues with 2.1.7, So I've
spent plenty of hours messing around with old versions and have zdoom-2.0.94 going ok. Maybe there was already an version that built nicely on Linux ??

Stuff I recall doing are:

hacked together a strlwr.c routine
fixed some typo for "menauctive", removing a reference to WINDOWED (??)
hacked in a_strifebishop into the makefiles (mising objects at link)
changed FindFirst tests from -1 to NULL (game saves were just dying)
finalised PATH formation from "." to "~/.zdoom" (game loads were lost)

Sometime it will go up at http://www.linuxquake.org, or email me for a copy ;>

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:17 pm

Doomguy0505 wrote:Why would a program written in a high level language like C++ not work on a 64-bit architechture?

Hand over the source code of fmod, and all your problems will be solved.

stevenaaus · Post by **stevenaaus** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:17 pm

Grubber wrote:@QBasicer: Make sure you use OSS for sound output (snd_output oss), fmod's ALSA output is ugly.

On my SBLive - in all operating systems (fedora 7 , man9.1) ALSA is great whereas OSS has small latency hangs, and zdoom-2.0.94 won't play anything in OSS. ?!?

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:05 am

I agree that ALSA is better than OSS, but it's fmod that has the problems.

k0da · Post by **k0da** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:23 pm

QBasicer wrote:I guess there's some crazy stuff you have to do to get a 64bit version of ZDoom to link with a 32bit binary library (like FMod). I personally don't have 64 bit, but that's just what a friend of mine says.

I don't think this is currently possible. Why would you want to go to all the trouble of hacking the OS and GCC, or whatever is involved to be able to do this? Linking against the 64-bit Linux version of FMOD Ex with my code is a much easier approach.

Besides, why are we even using FMod, what's wrong with say OpenAL?

You could go to the trouble of implementing OpenAL, but I think it would be wiser to wait to see how my FMOD Ex patch performs on Linux. I will have a new version up as soon as I have net access at home again... hopefully next week as my house mate ordered ADSL today.

QBasicer · Post by **QBasicer** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:19 pm

Unfortunatly, Windows decided to overwrite my MBR, so I can't boot linux ATM.

I will, however, take a look when I get set back up (I need a CD-R, those are hard to come by without some effort)

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:17 am

The drive, or the media? I've never had problems finding the media...

QBasicer · Post by **QBasicer** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:02 am

The media. It requires me to go to a store. Bah! CD-R should just grow on trees.

HeX · Post by **HeX** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:13 am

I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 with complete updates and am following the install instructions on the wiki. I was able to install the libs fine but when I compile I get a weird error and don't know what the problem is. I'm pretty sure I have everything needed to compile as well.

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vulture@vulture-linux:~/zdoom$ make -f Makefile.linux
sh: svnversion: not found
make: *** [updaterev] Error 1
vulture@vulture-linux:~/zdoom$

Anyone know what this is?

I got Skulltag beta4 and Odamex alpha .2a running great but zdoom is being troublesome for me. Also I'm still kinda new to Ubuntu so please go into detail if need be.

Doomguy0505 · Post by **Doomguy0505** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:04 am

You need to install subversion, though I don't see why it's needed.

HeX · Post by **HeX** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:22 am

Well that got rid of part of the problem....now I just get this:

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vulture@vulture-linux:~/zdoom$ make -f Makefile.linux
make: *** [updaterev] Error 1
vulture@vulture-linux:~/zdoom$

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