Alright, this should be the final test of the Linux code tree before it get merged into CVS. Both Linux and Windows users are needed to point out any last minute bugs.
First the Windows (doesn't have speech support, sorry) build:
20040519-win32.zipWindows users have three things to test:
1 - Make sure that everything works in general. No random crashes or new bugs.
2 - Make sure that the end-of-mission CTD doesn't show up in this build.
3 - Do some network play over a LAN to make sure the new networking changes don't break anything.
The Linux release (source for Linux and Windows):
20040519-fs2_open-linux.tar.bz2 Just make sure it builds and doesn't have any weird problems. There is so much new and fixed in here that I've long since lost count. Some basic notes though:
- The DevIL configure option has been renamed to "--enable-devil" rather than the capital "IL" before.
- Text to speech doesn't work right although there is a configure option for it. You would need speechd (/dev/speech) for it to work. This is less than half way done since I can't decide exactly how I want to impelment this.
- You now have to "./autogen.sh" before running "./configure" or just include your options with the autogen.sh command. If you are running Fedora Core 2 and get a bunch of automake messages, just ignore them as they won't hurt anything.
- The "-timerbar" works if you want to try that out. This is more of a developers option though.
- This is basically a 3.6 Linux release and will be rebranded as such unless problems are reported.
- Linux/PPC networking between x86 machines still isn't complete but is 99% done.
- Some basic help is printed to the command line if you use an invalid option (such as -h or --help).
- The executable filename has changed to match the Windows version: "fs2_open_r" for a normal/release build, "fs2_open_d" for a debug build.