RIP David Lynch

It's always sad to be reminded that an artist's body of work will always be finite, but if we take good care of that work the body of art inspired by it can go on forever.

I think it was Mark Frost that confirmed that Link's Awakening was inspired by Twin Peaks, so that's what I'll be doing this weekend. It's as good an excuse as any to finally back up these Twin Peaks Blu-Ray disks.

Last Year's Releases

Eets 1 Maintenance Update, Linux port
Shank 2 64-bit Linux/macOS Maintenance Update
Closure Maintenance Update
dxvk-native ABI, now shipping in Steam Linux Runtime 3.0!
SDL 3.0 ABI, including...
- SDL_Storage
- SDL_GPU
More...?

These projects are possible via a combination of studios willing to hire me for game-specific work (you can too!), as well as my GitHub Sponsors program.

flibitBuild

Want to replicate my build machine? Grab a RHEL8-based OS and have a look!

"RHEL-based" OSes include RHEL for Developers, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux.

Your OS minimum will be "glibc 2.28+, 64-bit only".

# Update base install before doing anything else
dnf update
# Add EPEL
dnf install epel-release
crb enable
# SDL2 dependencies
dnf builddep SDL2
# All the base build tools!
dnf install bzip2 bzip2-devel chrpath clang cmake freetype-devel gcc-c++ \
    git gtk3-devel libstdc++-static libuuid-devel libvorbis-devel \
    libxml2-devel meson ninja-build ocl-icd-devel openal-soft-devel \
    opencl-headers openssl-devel patch perl-IPC-Cmd svn unix2dos zlib-static
# MinGW toolchain, not available on aarch64
dnf install mingw32-gcc-c++ mingw64-gcc-c++

# Use latest meson instead of the packaged version
git clone https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson

# libdecor
curl -O https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libdecor/libdecor/-/archive/0.2.2/libdecor-0.2.2.tar.bz2
tar xvfj libdecor-0.2.2.tar.bz2
mkdir libdecor-0.2.2/flibitBuild
cd libdecor-0.2.2/flibitBuild
python3.11 ../../meson/meson.py setup .. --libdir=lib -Ddemo=false
ninja
su -c 'ninja install'

# PipeWire
curl -O https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/archive/1.2.5/pipewire-1.2.5.tar.bz2
tar xvfj pipewire-1.2.5.tar.bz2
mkdir pipewire-1.2.5/flibitBuild
cd pipewire-1.2.5/flibitBuild
python3.11 ../../meson/meson.py setup .. --libdir=lib -Dsession-managers= -Dpipewire-v4l2=disabled -Dv4l2=disabled -Draop=disabled
ninja
su -c 'ninja install'

# Also:
# Configure SDL with PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure
# The CMake config provided by SDL2-mingw is terrible, delete the block
#  that starts with "if(NOT TARGET SDL2::SDL2)".

flibitBuild AArch64

This VM works fine on the latest Fedora. The OS installation process is the same as above, except it will be text-based rather than graphical.

# On Fedora...
dnf install qemu-system-aarch64
dnf group install --with-optional virtualization
virt-install --name rocky8_aarch64 --os-variant rhel8.10 --arch aarch64 \
    --vcpus 8 --ram 3072 \
    --disk path=/home/flibitijibibo/Programming/aarch64/rocky8-aarch64.img,format=raw,size=32 \
    --cdrom ~/Downloads/Rocky-8.10-aarch64-minimal.iso

flibitBuild Next

When SDL3 is tagged, I'll be moving to using the Sniper SDK since I can use it on Fedora easily and the glibc version is lower than RHEL9's.

Your OS minimum will be "glibc 2.31+, 64-bit only". When deploying to Steam, you are encouraged to set the Sniper runtime via App Admin > Installation > Linux Runtime.

# On Fedora...
toolbox create -i registry.gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/sniper/sdk sniper
toolbox enter sniper

Unity Linux Editor Fix

I keep forgetting to write this down, so I'm putting it here:

./202x.x.x/Editor/Data/Tools/Roslyn/csc.runtimeconfig.json
./202x.x.x/Editor/Data/Tools/Roslyn/VBCSCompiler.runtimeconfig.json
# After System.GC.Server, add "System.Globalization.Invariant": true

Wait, a "plan"?

Well, this is a .plan file, so here's my TODO. Expect nothing from it, ever.

In Progress
    Codename a l'Orange
    SDL3 Console Bringup

Waiting Room
    SDL_ActionSet
        - After 3.0 :(
    Codename Line-o-tron
        - Waiting for wrap-up
    TBP load frame refresh
        - Will also revisit after SDL3
    Coding History
        - On call throughout development
    Anodyne FNA Console
        - Waiting on a handful of external things
    VVVVVV 2.5
        - Mostly staying hands-off again