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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Darkmage on April 11, 2004, 01:28:30 am

Title: Sourcecode/data modifications in LINUX
Post by: Darkmage on April 11, 2004, 01:28:30 am

can someone please repackage the media.vp file and all the other media files into a linux friendly package such as a .zip or a .rar, or even god forbid a .tar.gz... I can't get any of the .exe's to run under wine. this is a major showstopper for FS2_open on *NIX

Title: Sourcecode/data modifications in LINUX
Post by: Kazan on April 11, 2004, 01:42:29 am

um..... .vp is FS2's internal format - why exactly do you need it repackaged

you shouldn't be running under wine - you should be running under taylor's linux builds

Title: Sourcecode/data modifications in LINUX
Post by: Drew on April 11, 2004, 01:46:52 am

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Originally posted by Kazan
um..... .vp is FS2's internal format - why exactly do you need it repackaged
 

i think he means like uhh instead of .rar use .zip instead?

Title: Sourcecode/data modifications in LINUX
Post by: Kazan on April 11, 2004, 01:47:55 am

.zip, .tar, .tar, .gz, .bz and a million other formats are supported by linux

Title: Sourcecode/data modifications in LINUX
Post by: taylor on April 11, 2004, 01:53:30 am

I think he means that the media VPs are exe's.  This isn't a problem actually, they are just self-extracting rar's and can still be used with unrar.  So "unrar x mv_core.exe" would extract it and give you the VP and the readme.  You could even rename the files from exe to rar and they would extract in a GUI.

This probably needs to be mentioned somewhere, maybe wiki.  The self-extracting files are good for Windows users but still being RAR means that it's still usable on Linux and OSX.

Title: Sourcecode/data modifications in LINUX
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 11, 2004, 02:00:20 am

I think he means the self-extracting exes the VPs are in...

Have you tried decompressing them with the Linux version of RAR (http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm)?

Title: Sourcecode/data modifications in LINUX
Post by: mrduckman on April 11, 2004, 07:29:20 pm

I downloaded the Icculus' CVS tree and compiled it without a problem. I didn't test playiing because I've no GL card here at work. Perhaps this week I'll try it.