qvm and dll confusion

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hi All,

I have been doing some reading on the Quake 3 model and have found out 
that it implements a QVM approach with effectively is like a byte-code 
interpreter if I understand everything correctly. This approach allows 
the MOD's to run on multiple platforms without recompiling which is a 
good approach in many ways.

My concern is that, for the specific project that I am trying to develop 
a small MOD for, I need a way not to run through the interpreter and 
from a standard DLL perhaps since I will be adding some non standard 
gaming code and even embedding a scripting language interpreter myself 
which will have a particular purpose.

Yea, I know that some of you are asking yourself "why would this guy 
want to do that?"  Well, it's because the project that I am working on  
is utilizing the icculus Quake 3D engine for a non-gaming purpose and to 
build a "proof-of-concept" demo for a 3D environment with some very 
special features and which will be running on the Linux platform.

This why I was asking in the past if someone on the list could help 
guide me with setting up a "special" MOD that is basically a stripped 
down mod of the standard Q3 SDK and which would not have the Bot, and 
gaming components but would have a few other components that I am trying 
to work on as well.

Anyway, back to the basic question, ok. 

Could someone please tell me a little more  as to if it is even possible 
to just have standard DLL's (.so files on Linux) for my MOD so that I 
can include other non-standard code?

Also, if anyone is a little more interested in this project then please 
let me know since I could use all of the help that I can get and also 
the sources will be releases to the public in the Open Source model 
after the Alpha or Beta version are running well.

Thanks again for all of the great help from the forum.
Cheers,
Lonnie