linux port possible help

[elim]

I have been looking around and have noticed that there have been some problems todo with networking, for the linux port maybe the use of sdl_net library is in order http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/

and possibly SDL_gui for the on screen display http://www.newimage.com/~rhk/SDL_gui/

And lastly use sdl to initalise the opengl render

Im not a programmer although i hope to learn to be (java just got myself a book) so please don't take offence just trying to help.

[elim]

I have now got myself a power pc platform and have installed linux and will be happy to test any builds you pass in my direction. Hope i can help.

[jcnossen]

I can remember one of the SY's said that spring would be limited to i386 and above platform. And also isn't PowerPC big endian? The code is currently only for little endian anyway.

[Tim Blokdijk]

A PowerPC user!
Thats great, not that any porting is underway for PowerPC but it will probebly be the next thing after Linux.
After that it would be fun to take it back to Microsoft on the Xbox 360.
Anyway lets see how long the Linux porting effort will take to complete..

[AF]

Wouldnt powerPC just be feeding the linux port code into a different compiler?

[jcnossen]

No it needs to support both endianesses (is that a word? :)
Meaning, files have to be byte-swapped after loading, network messages need to be sended in network byte order (or at least the same order)
This will need some extra code.