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FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

I'm trying to port FreeSynd (reimplementation of engine for the classic Bullfrog game, Syndicate).
Freesynd depends on various SDL libraries: libSDL-1.2, libSDL_mixer, libSDL_image; the last two seem to be outdated in the maemo repos, so I managed to compile the game commenting some lines of code, the game runs but it is unstable, is someone interested in helping with this?

Re: FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

Search the forum for sdlmixer, Aapo started a thread, though it was mostly about not playing ogg and such and only mp3, error I'm getting atm:
error: ‘Mix_LoadMUS_RW’ was not declared in this scope
There also is sdl1.3 package in repos, have you tried it? (gave me quite a lot of errors when compiling with 1.2 went ok, some time ago, not sure if this is good advice, but trying won't hurt)

Re: FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

There are newer sdlmixer, libsdl-mixer1.2.8-dev

I made for testing purpose newer sdl-image (1.2.10), not yet sure how it should be renamed so it can be installed parallel with old version (as there might be some differences).

Download debs: http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/maemo5/

Code:

apt-cache policy libsdl-mixer1.2.8-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev

libsdl-mixer1.2.8-dev:

  Installed: 1.2.8-6maemo4

libsdl-image1.2-dev:

  Installed: 1.2.10-2.1

Code:

wget Freesynd-0.6

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

make

There were lots of warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
Give this link to upstream: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/docs/faqs/signedchar.php

Re: FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

kudos
edit: if you can think of a way/script to perform testing if they are backwards compatible, count me in

Re: FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

Aapo: just so you know Gigalomania fell prey to newer mixer (also couple of webos games sadly)

Re: FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

You can also use libsdl-mixeroggwav1.2-dev instead of libsdl-mixer1.2-dev.

Re: FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

Quote:

Originally Posted by szopin (Post 1188535)

Aapo: just so you know Gigalomania fell prey to newer mixer (also couple of webos games sadly)

No sound? Or crash?

Re: FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

Quote:

Originally Posted by AapoRantalainen (Post 1188530)

Code:

apt-cache policy libsdl-mixer1.2.8-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev

libsdl-mixer1.2.8-dev:

  Installed: 1.2.8-6maemo4

libsdl-image1.2-dev:

  Installed: 1.2.10-2.1

Code:

wget Freesynd-0.6

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

make

There were lots of warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
Give this link to upstream: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/docs/faqs/signedchar.php

Thanks!, it compiles with those libs, but when I try to build the deb package it fails with:

Code:

dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 (used by debian/freesynd/usr/local/bin/freesynd).

dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/freesynd.substvars debian/freesynd/opt/freesynd/freesynd debian/freesynd/usr/local/bin/freesynd returned exit code 2

I think this is because of the package name.

Re: FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

Disabling test-data made it run for me, sound intro mission choosing all works (not sure how to shoot yet), ctrl-c resulted in a megahalt though. Battery-forced reboot required. Very good-looking (especially as this game rocked)

Re: FreeSynd (Syndicate open source engine) port to maemo

Quote:

Originally Posted by szopin (Post 1188554)

It shoots with right mouse button, I'll try to emulate this holding a key.