[quake3] Compiling ioquake3 with g++

[Chris Bunting]

Hello,

There is a C++ and .NET Version of Quake 2 on the net somewhere. There is 
also infomation about Microsofts new Visual C++ Express Codename Orca that 
also mentions the .Net version as the new Express developer tools and 
supposed to make game building easier. However, the C++ 10 Express will not 
compile regular quake source code as the header files are not the same as 
Express 2005.

There is a lot of information about Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3 but you'll 
not find much on any quake sites. You need to find the released code and 
thesis papers about quake through google like the multithreaded q3 engine 
and so on.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Wichmann" <stefanw at gmx.org>
To: <quake3 at icculus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: [quake3] Compiling ioquake3 with g++


> Hi everybody,
>
> as part of my diploma thesis I am porting Quake to a framework for
> distributed real-time applications, that we have developed at my
> university. This platform is written in C++ and since i have to map the
> existing quake-entities onto classes managed by the framework, I have to
> compile ioquake with some C++-compiler.
>
> After some initial analysis my approach is to replace all relevant
> structs (entityState_t etc.) with classes containing only public
> attributes (This way the code using these structs doesn't need to be
> changed).
>
> The challenge I am facing now, is to compile the source with a
> C++-Compiler. Since Linux is my main development environment this would
> be the g++.
>
> It seems, that this compiler is a little stricter than the gcc and
> doesn't allow implicit casts anymore (as proposed by the ANSI C++
> Standard). Unfortunately these are spread all over the source.
>
> So my questions would be:
>
> Has anybody managed to compile ioquake with the g++?
>
> Do I have to fix every single cast by hand or is someone aware of
> tools supporting this conversion?
>
> Will the replacement of structs with classes break the whole qvm-stuff?
>
> I've read about some C++-Port on quakesrc.org, but it hasn't produced
> any public code yet. Also I'm not planing to convert everything but the
> essential parts to C++.
>
>
> Thanks very much in advance!
>
> cheers
> Stefan