Hello,

I was wondering: What do the developers think of making Evidyon run natively on Linux and/or other UNIX-like operating systems? I assume that all use Windows, or else there would be a discussion about other OS already.

Thanks.

Sounds like a great idea! It actually wouldn't be hugely difficult; Evidyon's graphics run purely through the Fixed-Function shader pipeline that could be ported to OpenGL. Additionally, the networking library ENet wraps everything nicely, and rewriting its functions to drop Windows sockets shouldn't be hard. In fact, someone might have already done it.

That's great to hear! Unfortunately I cannot do any programming to make this port happen, so I mentioned the need for a porter in a blog post.

Regarding enet: I only know that the cross-platform http://sauerbraten.org/ uses enet.

I really hope someone comes through and can do a port, I'd love to see Evidyon run on Linux. Where abouts did you make this post?

Posted here.

Trying to compile the server on FreeBSD 8 with gcc 4.2.1 these are the problems I have met so far.

Source/common/kg/array.h|53|error: there are no arguments to '_CRT_WIDE' that depend on a template parameter, so a declaration of '_CRT_WIDE' must be available|

Source/shared/client-server/evidyonpacketserializer.h|50|error: pasting "READPACKET" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token|
Source/shared/client-server/evidyonpacketserializer.h|50|error: pasting "READPACKET" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token|
Source/shared/client-server/evidyonpacketserializer.h|50|error: pasting "READPACKET" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token|
Source/shared/client-server/evidyonpacketserializer.h|50|error: pasting "READPACKET" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token|
Source/shared/client-server/evidyonpacketserializer.h|50|error: pasting "READPACKET" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token|
Source/shared/client-server/evidyonpacketserializer.h|50|error: pasting "READPACKET" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token|
Source/shared/client-server/evidyonpacketserializer.h|50|error: pasting "READPACKET" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token|
Source/shared/client-server/evidyonpacketserializer.h|50|error: pasting "READPACKET" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token|

Source/shared/actor/actorsyncflags.h|39|error: 'Evidyon::Actor::ActorSyncFlags::PARAMETER_BITS' may not be static because it is a member of a union|
Source/shared/actor/actorsyncflags.h|40|error: 'Evidyon::Actor::ActorSyncFlags::MINIMUM_DURATION' may not be static because it is a member of a union|
Source/shared/actor/actorsyncflags.h|41|error: 'Evidyon::Actor::ActorSyncFlags::MAXIMUM_DURATION' may not be static because it is a member of a union|

Source/server/encodepackets.h|40|error: use of enum 'ActorState' without previous declaration|
Source/server/encodepackets.h|47|error: use of enum 'RequestActionResult' without previous declaration|

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trapdoor

Some more errors:

Source/server/globaldatabasemanager.cpp||In member function 'bool Evidyon::GlobalDatabaseManager::create(const char*)':|
Source/server/globaldatabasemanager.cpp|432|error: template argument for 'template<class _T1, class _T2> struct std::pair' uses local type 'Evidyon::GlobalDatabaseManager::create(const char*)::Field'|
Source/server/globaldatabasemanager.cpp|432|error: trying to instantiate 'template<class _T1, class _T2> struct std::pair'|
Source/server/globaldatabasemanager.cpp|432|error: template argument 4 is invalid|
Source/server/globaldatabasemanager.cpp|432|error: invalid type in declaration before ';' token|

Majority of the work so far has been fixing the use of non-standard (ie Microsoft) functions such as strcpy_s and sprintf_s. Not even sure why C strings are even being used so widely on a cpp project.

I am making progress but it is slow going.

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trapdoor

Great! Sorry it's taking so long, and good luck.

Working on porting the threading on the server now.

Also started porting some of the client to OpenGL.

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trapdoor

Trapdoor, any luck on progressing this further? I was going to attempt his feat myself before I stumbled upon this thread. Do you want/need any help? I'm far from a 3d graphics programmer, but I may be able to help.