Linux build instructions

[keturn]

It's been a while, but there was, at one point, a Linux build.
Are build instructions for that still around?

[Smilex]

I've made a build script that does successfully compile and run the game. It has rough edges though, for the time being

https://github.com/Smilex/CCOSS/tree/linux

[neuromancer]

Neat!, which game data you used? The one from steam should work right?

[Smilex]

On Linux, you need to enable proton for the game, because the linux version has no files, then opt in for the beta branch, and then copy the run executable that you get from my branch, into the game folder under Steam, and run it!

Then you get to see the intro, but notice that it crashes if you try to start a scenario

[neuromancer]

Can we use the old game data?

[Smilex]

I don't know, but I'd guess not
I'll first focus on making my linux build less rough

[Smilex]

Oh no! I very much managed to confuse myself. There is no beta branch for Linux, and I think that's the reason why it crashes.

[Newk77]

can't we use the data files from the windows version in the linux build?

[Smilex]

By the sound of #2 it looks like the windows users don't have access to the beta branch either

[Newk77]

i remember i had to use a password in Steam to access the beta
googled it and found: rocket100000

(edit: this way i could use the linux build that was also in the OSX build 30 branch.. old version and only got it to work on a 32bit machine)

[Rathlord]

I'd love to help getting latest running on OS X and Linux as well. Not sure where we're at progress-wise, though, so if someone wants to get me up to speed and pointed at a starting point I'd be happy to jump in and see what I can do.

[Smilex]

I'd love to help getting latest running on OS X and Linux as well. Not sure where we're at progress-wise, though, so if someone wants to get me up to speed and pointed at a starting point I'd be happy to jump in and see what I can do.

The intention is to provide precompiled dependencies for different platforms, but that isn't the case yet, so first you'll need this - https://github.com/liberated-cortex/CCOSS_dependencies - and to run the "prepare.sh" script. Hopefully it just works, if not, it's a bug.

Then you'll need to compile this - https://github.com/liberated-cortex/CCOSS - by opening the build_linux.sh file, finding the PREPARED_DIR variable and pointing it to the CCOSS_dependencies/prepared directory on your system, then run that file.

Now you should have a linux executable called "cortext", it needs to be copied into the Cortex Command root directory, but you'll need the newest branch, which you can get from steam, by going into the games options on steam and selecting the ccoss branch.

Yes I know this is too much, it'll be simplified in future.
Expect audio issues

[basxto]

Fast copy and paste version:

git clone https://github.com/liberated-cortex/CCOSS_dependencies.git
git clone https://github.com/liberated-cortex/CCOSS.git
cd CCOSS_dependencies
./prepare.sh
cd ../CCOSS
sed -i -e 's|PREPARED_DIR=""|PREPARED_DIR="../CCOSS_dependencies/prepared/"|g' ./build_linux.sh
./build_linux.sh

But it does not work for me.
objs/LuaMan.cpp.o, objs/libluabind.a and ../CCOSS_dependencies/prepared//libogg.a are missing.

[Smilex]

@basxto Thanks for testing it! I had made a mistake from the start, where I committed some generated files for CCOSS_dependencies. I have no gone through and removed those, could you try it again? Hopefully that fixes the libogg.a issue

as for libluabind.a, I'd need to learn what the compile issue is

[basxto]

The errors from build_linux.sh are those: https://gist.github.com/basxto/25f7436f288e0d903803bbebde0086f7

EDIT: I fixed libluabind.a, the headers weren't included. LuaMan.cpp still has build errors, though.

I get this erro for a couple of different lines:

external/sources/luabind-0.9.1/luabind/object.hpp:546:37: error: no matching function for call to ‘operator==(const luabind::detail::basic_iterator<luabind::detail::basic_access>&, const luabind::detail::basic_iterator<luabind::detail::basic_access>&)’                     
  546 |       return boost::operator op(x, y); \                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
      |  

EDIT2: I have boost 1.69.0-2 and boost-libs 1.69.0-2 installed.
EDIT3: The AUR package has patches for luabind https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/luabind, but I get reference errors after applying it.