Short version for those short on time: TINS 2007 Linux Package
Patches: 01 02 03

The day after TINS I tried to make all the entries work under Linux (at first compileable and then runnable).
I managed to get all entries to compile under Linux, and I provided SConstruct files for those who hadn't a Linux build script included. Mostly it was renaming files to Upper- and Lowercase and fixing errors with GCC (it's amazing how many syntax errors don't matter under Windows).

When I tried to run the games I noticed that after installing the necessary libraries only 2 games (Allefant, Raabinator) refused to run. Maybe they work for you, but I can't confirm it.

So, after all there are 16 TINS games that are playable under Linux, assuming that you install all the libraries needed (a few examples are OpenLayer, AllegroGL, guichan, GlyphKeeper, alfont, jpgal, loadpng, ..). I used Debian Etch BTW.

Have fun!

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Garbage Man Stan! still hasn't been approved by amarillion. I tried to submit right at the time the competition closed, but the submit page said "Fatal Error: blah blah blah print_too_late() blah blah blah". Obviously, I was a minute after the deadline, but I pm'd him immediately with a link to the game and had a post up here after another 30 minutes.

I haven't heard from him one way or another.

Uh oh, that doesn't look right.

However I think I've been able to find out what the problem is and I think I've fixed it. I can't test on linux, but you can someone try this (attached)patch for me?

Included are two files, basically in Map.cpp change

  if((fp = fopen(mapName.c_str(),"rt")))

to

  if((fp = fopen(mapName.c_str(),"rb")))

And use the new attached test.map. I have no idea why I was saving the map in text format... I think it's becuase I was having trouble with loading the map in Java and I did that for some particular reason (the map editor I used was written for Java) but that's really weird.

I know I shouldn't have waited until the last minute to write this.

Also good job! Us Windows users are not usually too considerate of the linux population when we write out code

[edit]
Also do you have a list of changes that you needed to make to GWARA if any? If not thats okay I can do a quick diff of all the files, but if you do it would help.

This is great work! By the way, there is a proper Linux friendly package available for Ballz: http://darkbits.org/ballz-1.0.tar.gz

Better now?

Great! Are there any changes besides the bugfix?

Yep, cool thanks!

Good job again.

Yeah I made all data install properly in $prefix/share/ballz. I also included the Dumb source, added a README file (giving credits to Dumb) and added a license notice to each source file. Ballz should only be dependent on Allegro >= 4.2 now.

Edit: Ballz never has been dependent on linkage with Guichan libraries as the Guichan source is included.

Interesting. To my knowledge, not the entire guichan code was included. There were a few important widgets (e.g. Button) missing. Try compiling it with no guichan installed.

My bad, I had Guichan installed when I tested the source package so I never noticed the missing files (references were missing in an Makefile.am file). I hope it's fixed now.

What could have caused this??

Whoops. My fault. I didn't realize that there was data in the Bin/ folder. After making it accessible to my Linux executable by also moving it in the Bin/ folder, your game worked with no problems.

The memory protection fault was because you didn't check if the data was loaded properly. I thought it was something more serious.

Your entry is fixed now in my package (Patch 02).
Same goes for ho2go's entry which had images located somewhere in the source code folder. Just move the executable into the "Britney/" folder and start it from there. Updated build script to do just that (Patch 03).

ah, that's nice to hear .

Onewing: Amarillion is on a work/holiday trip right now. Didn't know that myself till yesterday :-) I'm quite sure your entry will be approved. We'll just have to wait until he is back I guess.

Hey I'm back.

Yes, Onewing did send me that entry one minute after the deadline, so I'll accept it. I didn't check my PM inbox just before I left (My bad, last Monday was a very busy day for me).

Now I'll start playing those games...