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Tge On Freebsd?

by Luke Dean · in Torque Game Engine · 12/09/2007 (12:52 am) · 2 replies

I am looking for a cross-platform 3D game engine.
My development platform of choice is FreeBSD.

I have downloaded the Linux demo for TGE, but it reports an error during the post-installation phase (with no details whatsoever) then when I attempt to run it, it brings down X with a signal 11. I suspect there's some key Linux component that I'm not emulating well enough for it, but without any more information than that, I may not be able to figure out what the real problem is...

So I have three questions:
1) Any idea how to troubleshoot this problem?
2) Even better, is there a native FreeBSD demo for TGE?
3) If "no" to #1 and #2, then can somebody at least assure me that I should be able to compile and run TGE from source under FreeBSD after I purchase a license? In which case I suppose I could scrounge up a Windows machine to evaluate the demo with... :grumble grumble:
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Luke Dean
#1
12/09/2007 (1:06 am)
Rebuilding my video driver fixed my problem with the demo. I had installed some other linux packages when the demo complained about not being able to find them, but apparently the video driver needed to be rebuilt for me to get the full effect.
So that's working now.

But I'm still interested in the possibility of building and using a native FreeBSD installation if anybody's got any information on that.

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David MontgomeryBlake
#2
12/09/2007 (7:56 am)
The linux development of TGE is community based, and I am not sure about the status of a BSD port. I am guessing that it wouldn't be a friendly "out-of-the-box" solution, though. I'm sure some of the Linux community could shine more light on this than I.