[quake3] Re: Questions about compile options (ioq3 on Solaris).
vincent at cojot.name
vincent at cojot.name
Fri Oct 28 13:02:49 EDT 2005
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Andreas Kohn wrote:
Hi Andreas/Ankon,
> Well, I didn't announce anything, because I can only play with Solaris
> in the university computer pools.
Ok. I can help with that (lots of high-end SUN systems at work and at
home). :)
> My current state was: compiles with gcc 2.8.1 on SunOS 5.7, both client
> and dedicated.
Do you have a current tarball of your porting work?
> The client has no sound, I used null_snd.c from the dedicated server
> with a small modification. The client crashes somewhere when
> initializing Mesa, which may be related to the fact that mesa was
> forcefully installed by me (non-root) in a non-standard location etc.
> It looks like you are way ahead of me :)
Mesa will be very slow on Solaris. ioq2 uses OpenGL (or XIL, or
Newt/SunRay since SUN contributed some code) and ioq3 should most likely
use OpenGL under Solaris too..
>> What option do you guys/gals like better?
>
> +1 for 3) as well.
I'm currently experimenting with option 2) (USE_SDL_VIDEO and
USE_SDL_AUDIO) since I'm "sound coding impaired" and I'm planning to use
SDL for sound under Solaris..
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