IRC logs for #opendune on OFTC at 2011-06-16
⏴ go to previous day
11:38:24 *** TrueBrain is now known as Guest4825
11:38:24 *** TB is now known as TrueBrain
13:49:01 *** fjb is now known as Guest4833
17:45:18 *** Alberth has joined #openDune
17:50:43 *** TigerP has joined #openDune
18:01:27 <TigerP> how do I run the setup program or fix that opendune does not give the message "The setup program must be run first"?
18:03:56 * Alberth guesses by installing the game data
18:04:25 * TigerP has copied the files to the data directory
18:05:59 <Alberth> 'game data' includes the exe file
18:06:14 <TigerP> the dune2.exe is in the data directory
18:07:01 <TigerP> I used the amd64 static build
18:08:13 <Alberth> there is such a file? oh, ok :)
18:08:16 <TigerP> when I try to run the opendune from svn build ... it says Program must be run from the source directory
18:08:56 <Alberth> cd trunk ; ./opendune is what I do normally
18:09:56 <TigerP> that's when it says to run from the Program dir
18:10:52 <Alberth> I don't know what the Program dir is, sorry
18:12:08 <Alberth> can you pastebin the directory layout and files somewhere? this seems to become very complicated without going anywhere, imho
18:14:40 <Alberth> both messages seem to come from the original program
18:14:56 <Alberth> ie not added in the conversion
18:15:36 <Alberth> one other possibility is that you have the wrong original version
18:16:15 <TigerP> I use the files that are mentioned in the wiki (for linux development)
18:16:38 <Alberth> no., I mean dune2.exe version
18:17:10 <Alberth> several versions were released, opendune needs a precise match to work.
18:19:05 <Alberth> hmm, another user seemed to get crash dumps, not your kind of messages
18:19:41 <Alberth> (and he had the a wrong dune2 version)
18:21:11 <TigerP> I did everything again (in a new directory) and now it works ...
18:21:39 <TigerP> the only difference is that I now run it from X instead of a console
18:22:26 <TigerP> is it possible to skip the movies?
18:23:03 <Alberth> I am not sure you can do anything useful at a console, without becoming root first
18:23:28 <Alberth> so I'd recommend using a window :)
18:24:15 <TigerP> thnx for the support so far
18:25:31 <Alberth> you did the most work :)
18:26:12 <TigerP> you gave the right suggestions :-)
19:19:52 <glx> TigerP: the message is for missing dune.cfg
19:20:05 <glx> but dune.cfg should come with sources
19:21:25 <TigerP> glx: which message? about the setup program?
19:22:20 <TigerP> that explains, because I first moved my own data files to the directory which gave me some problems and then moved the data directory away
19:22:41 <TigerP> and forgot to replace the dune.cfg in the directory
19:23:00 <glx> we provide dune.cfg because running setup is not easy :)
19:26:22 <Alberth> could it be useful to add these things to a wiki?
19:26:54 <Alberth> or the readme, or so?
19:27:57 <Alberth> somewhat, you are the first persn asking it :p
19:34:57 <Alberth> have we run out of things to convert from decompiled yet?
19:35:17 <Alberth> and what to do with the other things?
19:37:14 <Alberth> or should there stuff be done at other parts of the code?
19:51:56 <TrueBrain> I think best to do now is to remove all Tools_Malloc
19:52:10 <TrueBrain> if that is done, we can remove 90% of 01F7
19:52:17 <TrueBrain> the other 2 big chunks are sound and music and voice driver
19:52:21 <TrueBrain> you can ask glx if you can help with that
19:52:42 <TrueBrain> removing all Tools_Malloc won't be easy
19:52:46 <TrueBrain> others not so much :P
19:52:58 <TrueBrain> (as it replaces 16bit pointers with real pointers)
19:54:11 <Alberth> I'll have a look around first :)
19:54:51 <Alberth> I seem to stumble on many emu_ax usage bugs from 'ack emu_ax src' :)
19:54:53 <TrueBrain> specially the widget stuff will be hard
20:12:11 <DorpsGek> SVN: alberth (r1791) -Fix (r1067): Use drawn random number for starport supply.
continue to next day ⏵