Reference distribution for the building of Linux on Spring

[Sharkey]

I am working towards getting Spring onto OS X. To do so, requires that I make sure that my development code-base snapshots comes from the most recent build of Spring on Linux; which requires choosing a Linux distribution.

Is there a reference Linux distribution that is primary target of Spring on Linux?

Sharkey

[Auswaschbar]

I am working towards getting Spring onto OS X. To do so, requires that I make sure that my development code-base snapshots comes from the most recent build of Spring on Linux;

svn trunk?

Why do you need linux if you want to develop for mac anyway?

[AF]

OS X is a Unix compliant Operating system, thus the closest OS spring distributes for is Linux. To answer the question posed however, i would say Ubuntu seems the one most targeted for Linux support simply because most Linux users here run Ubuntu.

[lurker]

But I'm not aware of any changes made to help support ubuntu; it's mostly an issue of getting the libraries installed and then spring is pretty happy to compile.

[Auswaschbar]

OS X is a Unix compliant Operating system, thus the closest OS spring distributes for is Linux. To answer the question posed however, i would say Ubuntu seems the one most targeted for Linux support simply because most Linux users here run Ubuntu.

He asked about where he should take the most recent spring source from. If he wants to do serious development, he should checkout the svn trunk, which doesn't need linux to run on.

[AF]

But if you had paid attention to the Mac OS X spring port google group my reply would have made a lot more sense.

I would suggest that you checkout the branch tagged 0.77b5 possibly?

[Auswaschbar]

But if you had paid attention to the Mac OS X spring port google group my reply would have made a lot more sense.

The only discussion is about finidng out dependencies of spring. A simple look at the rts/CMakeLists.txt would give the following two lines:
Linux-specific:

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LIST(APPEND spring_libraries ${OPENAL_LIBRARY} ${OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY} ${OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY} ${X11_X11_LIB} ${X11_Xcursor_LIB} ${GLEW_LIBRARIES})

and all-platform:

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LIST(APPEND spring_libraries  ${SDL_LIBRARY} ${Boost_REGEX_LIBRARY} ${Boost_THREAD_LIBRARY} ${VORBISFILE_LIBRARY} ${VORBIS_LIBRARY} ${OGG_LIBRARY} ${FREETYPE_LIBRARIES} ${DEVIL_LIBRARIES} )

This is a complete list of external libraries spring is linked to.

[el_matarife]

OS X is a Unix compliant Operating system, thus the closest OS spring distributes for is Linux.

I think the closest OS Spring targets to MacOSX is FreeBSD.

[lurker]

Spring works there well enough now that it's less picky about the fpu state, doesn't it?