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Packaging and installation?

by Markus Nuebel · in Torque Game Engine · 09/13/2004 (2:26 am) · 2 replies

Hi guys.

I recently ported our game to Linux.
Since I am new to Linux I would like to know, how the complete game should be distributed.

For Win32 we have an installer, that installs the game executable, the scripts, the game content, OpenAL/opengl2d3d/glu2d3d libs and then places a shortcut on the desktop.

- Do I have to distribute third party libs like OpenAL for Linux? (It's not like placing a dll in the game directory as for Win32)
- Do I have to package all the game content and executable as an rpm?
- Is there a free installer, that helps with doing Linux installations?

Thanks.
-- Markus
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#1
09/13/2004 (3:17 am)
OpenAL is not a standard component in many Linux systems so it would be a good idea to distribute the OpenAL library with the game.
There is a installer tool called, lokisetup I think (many linux games uses it).

btw, is it a torque game?
If so, you have all you need I think.

And also, you said "It's not like placing a dll in the game directory as for Win32"... you are only partly right there.
You can place the "dll" (.so) in the game directory and then create a startup script that fixes the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable so that the system finds that "dll" (if you have torque, check runtorque.sh).

One final note, don't use rpm because not all linux distributions uses that format.

Torque Owner Markus Nuebel
#2
09/14/2004 (1:36 am)
Hey thanks Alexander.

I never thought of installing the Linux TorqueDemo, to checkout the setup. Great advise.

Yes it's a Torque based game.

I will get lokisetup an play with it a bit.

Thanks.