Setting up camp at LinuxTag
Hello from Wiesbaden, Germany, where this year’s LinuxTag takes place.
So far I’m tackling the booth single-handed, but thanks to a couple of nice people in the surrounding booths, I can get some time off the booth from time to time. Andor and Lennart are going to join me on friday, so we’ll be fully prepared for the rush of people expected for the weekend. So far it seems like there are less people around than last year, but it’s the middle of the week, so you never know.
On the technical side, I’ve discovered that I really like the updates to sear since the last time I played it, and I updated my dislike to compiling CEGUI/Ogre… Oh well. Hopefully we’ll be able to sort out my ember build problems soon so I can demo that program, too.
May 4th, 2006 at 8:28 am
What version of Ember are you trying to build?
Doesn’t the autopackage packages work?
May 4th, 2006 at 9:34 am
I’m building current CVS ember, as I’m lacking the 32bit compat libs for SDL_image, so the autopackage doesn’t work. I figure I could set up a 32bit chroot instead…
Updating OpenAL fixed the compile issues though. Now ember crashes in
#1 0×0000000000453c74 in EmberOgre::EmberOgre::configure (this=0×7fffffaa6040) at EmberOgre.cpp:495
495 SDL_WM_SetIcon(IMG_Load(iconPath), 0);
Looks like I didn’t set the paths right.
May 4th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Ah, yep, building Ember cvs requires Ogre 1.2. And with this version of Ogre they’ve changed the default platform on *nix system from SDL to GLX. Ember uses SDL for its input system, and I haven’t yet had time to make Ember work with the GLX backend. The only solution right now is to compile Ogre with the configure flag “–with-platform=SDL”. It shouldn’t trigger a complete recompile of the whole Ogre, just the platform part.