Help porting to FreeBSD?

[Ralith]

I'm interested in getting spring working on FreeBSD. It's similar to linux in many respects, so in theory very little should need changing; it's an astronomically simpler prospect than windows -> linux, for example. However, in beginning this effort, I've run into problems straight off; the build system appears to for some reason have hardcoded behavior for the supported platforms, and the fallback measures all fail badly. Even after having hacked at rts/build/scons/config.py for half an hour I can't get past the jni.h check, despite its presence on my system in /usr/local/jdk1.6.0/include/ , which I've tried to inform the build system of a wide variety of ways. Beyond this, the system assumes that headers are generally located in /usr/include. On FreeBSD all non-base-system headers are in /usr/local/include. Easy enough for me to hack around in a temporary manner, but I don't know the python to get all this working properly in a clean fashion that won't break any of the other platforms.

Suffice to say, I'm eager to put in the majority of the work here, and I can probably handle most issues in the meat of the code, but this build system is stopping me from going anywhere. Anyone want to volunteer aid?

[smoth]

I am absolutely no help to you but I wish you luck.

[Ralith]

Your wish did its job.
http://spring.clan-sy.com/mantis/view.php?id=934

[Forboding Angel]

O_o

SMOTH IS MAJIK!!!

/me rubs smoth

MAEK BLOOM FILTER NAO!!!!


/me waits for *poof*

[clericvash]

That is pretty cool, nice work fella, looks like the wiki will need updating soon for FreeBSD setup as well :D

[Ralith]

That is pretty cool, nice work fella, looks like the wiki will need updating soon for FreeBSD setup as well :D

I dunno, it should be pretty much the same procedure as for Linux, once both the build system and source code patches are applied.

O_o

SMOTH IS MAJIK!!!

/me rubs smoth

MAEK BLOOM FILTER NAO!!!!


/me waits for *poof*

Offtopic much?

[clericvash]

That is pretty cool, nice work fella, looks like the wiki will need updating soon for FreeBSD setup as well :D

I dunno, it should be pretty much the same procedure as for Linux, once both the build system and source code patches are applied.

Well there should be a mention of it, and i am sure someone will eventually build installer packages for it, so it should go in the wiki, just because it's "pretty much the same" doesn't mean it should get left out

[Ralith]

Er, maybe you don't understand the nature of systems like FreeBSD. A skilled admin generally installs everything by either A. compiling from source, B. compiling from ports, or C. installing a binary package compiled by the FreeBSD people from ports. An installer of any kind would probably never be used.

[Dragon45]

BSD is black magicz

its a historically important OS that's not supported by most popular things.

[imbaczek]

I personally don't use it, but having a working spring on it can't hurt.

[Ralith]

BSD is black magicz

its a historically important OS that's not supported by most popular things.

BSD is a long dead piece of history. FreeBSD is a very much alive and well supported modern unix.

[REVENGE]

So, I am assuming we need a lobby port now? AFLobby for starters perhaps?

[Ralith]

Any of the lobbies which work on Linux should (theoretically) work fine here, too; iirc, SpringLobby works without any changes. Now all that remains to be done is multiplayer sync testing of the new code.

[REVENGE]

How is 3D acceleration handled on FreeBSD? Support for major vendors?

[Ralith]

FreeBSD generally uses Xorg for graphics, just like most linuxes. In theory this means identical hardware support, but because most vendors don't release driver source code, that tends to fall apart in reality. Luckily, nVidia supplies proprietary drivers for 32-bit x86 FreeBSD, and I expect that once the open source 3D ATI drivers have been released, those will work too.

[Wiledar]

It is great that you are working on porting Spring to FreeBSD!

Unfortunately i didn't find a way to start single player in fbsd's Spring. I hope it will be possible and easier some day.

Thanks for your work =)

[panzeriv2]

Why are you rezzing this thread?

Sorry, wrong person.

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