Spring on PowerPC in Linux -- Noob Q

desertlynx · Post by **desertlynx** » 26 Jul 2006, 10:30

My apologies for asking the obvious, I was wondering, would spring work on linux on my mac?

More specifically, I was considering installing Kubuntu or some other distro on my G5 so I would be able to run spring.

Unfortunately, I do not have the new Intel processor but the older (dual) PowerPC processor. Other than that, it has a GeForce FX 5200.
Since I'm a total linux noob (experienced XP and intermediate Mac user) I don't know if this will work.

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 26 Jul 2006, 11:03

I don't think anyone has tested this.

One issue you will get is the endianness of network code - you won't be able to play against linux i386/amd64 peeps (tho that wouldn't be possible anyway due to sync errors).

Endianness for loading data should have been fixed already because someone is working on spring on PowerPC IIRC (but some Mac OS, not linux).

So if you got a binary powerpc nvidia driver you could just try and see if it compiles/runs...

desertlynx · Post by **desertlynx** » 26 Jul 2006, 11:29

Thanks for that. A pity... I will still try it out though. Just have to wait until Spring is ported to mac properly.

I'm truly looking forward to having 23" screen running Spring

own3d · Post by **own3d** » 29 Aug 2006, 12:12

The major problem with power pc linux is that it lacks good 3d drivers, if you have a radeon 9700 you could try the r300 driver, its now been merged into cvs on freedesktop.org i don't know whether it would work but it might.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 29 Aug 2006, 17:07

Seems to me the (linux) source code compiled for OSX works fairly well.

Shadowfury333 · Post by **Shadowfury333** » 25 Sep 2006, 00:35

P3374H wrote:Seems to me the (linux) source code compiled for OSX works fairly well.

Sorry to bump, but would you be so kind as to host this compiled app?

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 25 Sep 2006, 03:39

It wasn't me...I just heard it somewhere...either #main or this forum, I can't remember.

pheldens · Post by **pheldens** » 25 Sep 2006, 12:03

own3d wrote:the r300 driver, its now been merged into cvs on freedesktop.org i don't know whether it would work but it might.

Yes I use r300 on x86 linux on a PCIE X700 (more or less on principle.) I made a portal for it on freedesktop to group some info, with benchmarks and other info.

If you want to add your powerpc experience somewhere, that would be nice.

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R300_20Portal

abompard · Post by **abompard** » 31 Jan 2009, 11:20

Hi all,

I'm bringing back this thread, do you know if there's news on the Power PC port ?
Currently, it does not build.
Is anybody interested in porting the code and testing it ?

Thanks

Spring RTS Engine

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