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Tbe Issue

by Chad Hall · in Torque Game Engine · 04/09/2005 (9:54 pm) · 6 replies

Alright there were quite a bit of places I could have put this post... I chose here ;) probably not the right place but anyways...

I bought Torque today and played around on the fpsstarterkit for awhile, but later when I decided I'd try to compile the source I ran into many problems. As I was searching the GG site I came accross the TBE alpha. Downloaded it, installed it, and attempted to run it. I got the following error:

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Eclipse
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JVM terminated. Exit code=1
C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe
-cp C:\TBE\Eclipse\eclipse\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
-os win32
-ws win32
-arch x86
-showsplash C:\TBE\Eclipse\eclipse\eclipse.exe -showsplash 600
-exitdata C:\TBE\Eclipse\eclipse\eclipse.exe -exitdata 98c_184
-vm C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe
-vmargs
-cp C:\TBE\Eclipse\eclipse\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
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OK
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Thanks to anyone who can help me with this... And I'll state now I'm a complete noob to this.
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Associate Chris Calef
BrokeAss Games
#1
04/10/2005 (9:24 pm)
Well, I'd have a pretty hard time diagnosing what Eclipse is deciding to do to you there, but if you'd like to make sure you can compile Torque, try the following method:
1) go to a windows command prompt, and navigate to c:\Torque\SDK (or better yet, a copy of SDK)

2) run the following from the command line:
make -f mk/configure.mk OS=WIN32 COMPILER=GCC3 BUILD=RELEASE

3) type "make"

If all is well, you will see it start to make. It should take up to a goodly number of minutes depending on your system speed, then say "linking torqueDemo.exe", then finish. If it gets this far, you're in business.

Apologies for TBE documentation failing to include this, Eclipse is proving to be quite temperamental, at least in windows environment.

good luck!

chris

Associate Chris Calef
BrokeAss Games
#2
04/10/2005 (9:26 pm)
PS - If the above works, and you wish to continue on to coding, simply use another text editing environment for now to work on your code. As long as it saves with no extra formatting (i.e. don't save .cc files as word documents!) then you can do coding from anywhere. If you like keyboard shortcuts, I recommend XEmacs, it's free and has syntax highlighting. Many options exist.

Associate Kyle Carter
#3
04/10/2005 (9:32 pm)
I like TextPad! :)

(Everyone has their favorite text editor, and there are a LOT of different flavors. Experiment a bit and choose the one you like most. As long as it isn't wordpad, you'll be fine. ;)

Torque Owner Chad Hall
#4
04/11/2005 (2:06 pm)
Wow, thanks alot! That really helps!

Associate Chris Calef
BrokeAss Games
#5
04/11/2005 (3:14 pm)
Excellent, glad to hear it. Don't know why Eclipse is giving people so much grief.

Associate Ron Yacketta
#6
04/11/2005 (3:40 pm)
This strikes me as odd

C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe

MS's JVM blows! try installing SUNs JVM and see what it tells yah

-ROn