Welcome to the ZDoom Forums!

Can ZDoom output the version information when you start it? Since I have to do it all from source, I can lose track of which version I have and getting ZDoom to start up all the way to the console can sometimes be pretty tricky.

I'll see if I can do it myself since nobody seems to care about the Linux branch.


Well, here's a quick patch for a couple changes I made. It does 2 things:

1. ZDoom tells you a little about itself as the first thing it does. That way you can know what version etc it is.
2. The pick IWAD thing tells you that you can exit by selecting "0" and I just couldn't stand how there wasn't a colon after the "Which one?" prompt

Anyway, here it is:

Spoiler:

---

Code: Select all

diff -ur zdoom-old/src/sdl/i_main.cpp zdoom/src/sdl/i_main.cpp
--- zdoom-old/src/sdl/i_main.cpp	2006-05-11 20:14:40.000000000 -0700
+++ zdoom/src/sdl/i_main.cpp	2006-11-20 01:07:09.000000000 -0800
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@
 
 int main (int argc, char **argv)
 {
+	printf("ZDoom v%s - SVN revision %s - SDL version\nCompiled on %s\n\n",DOTVERSIONSTR_NOREV,SVN_REVISION_STRING,__DATE__);
 	{
 		int s[4] = { SIGSEGV, SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGBUS };
 		cc_install_handlers(4, s, "zdoom-crash.log", DoomSpecificInfo);
diff -ur zdoom-old/src/sdl/i_system.cpp zdoom/src/sdl/i_system.cpp
--- zdoom-old/src/sdl/i_system.cpp	2006-09-19 19:00:19.000000000 -0700
+++ zdoom/src/sdl/i_system.cpp	2006-11-20 00:59:27.000000000 -0800
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
 {
 	int i;
 	
-	printf ("Please select a game wad:\n");
+	printf ("Please select a game wad (or 0 to exit):\n");
 	for (i = 0; i < numwads; ++i)
 	{
 		const char *filepart = strrchr (wads[i].Path, '/');
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
 			filepart++;
 		printf ("%d. %s (%s)\n", i+1, IWADTypeNames[wads[i].Type], filepart);
 	}
-	printf ("Which one? ");
+	printf ("Which one?: ");
 	scanf ("%d", &i);
 	if (i > numwads)
 		return -1;

Also, here's it attached in case you don't like inline.

Done - except for the ':' after the '?'.