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Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:50 am
by kroddn
Revision 2227 is available as statically linked version.

Note: the typo "lastest" was corrected into "latest" :-)

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2aa56e559314993135b1496bb0f9636f  latest.tar.gz
http://psitronic.de/div/FO/

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:56 am
by Laryllan
Would it be possible to provide packages for the moste commonly used distros?
I use Ubuntu and without your statically linked version I wouldn't be able to start the game at all.
Compiling for myself is quite an issue - I was forced to recompile some python libs and was never sure if the new libs could break my system, so I am just not willing to do this myself.

My guess is: with this version of yours, it should be quite easy to provide some .deb or .rpm packages.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:52 pm
by kroddn
It should be no problem to take the tar.gz and build a deb out of it, containing the statically linked version. This then should work on ever debian-based distro. But - I do not have the time to figure that out for now.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:15 pm
by The Silent One
This version works excellent for Ubuntu 7.04. Thank you for providing it, kroddn!

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:53 pm
by kroddn
Do you have accelerated video-drivers installed?

Please execute:

strace -f -o /tmp/trace ./freeorion

And then upload the resulting /tmp/strace somewhere. Maybe i can find out where your problem comes from.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:46 am
by kroddn
I uploaded revision 2355 as statically linked version.

http://psitronic.de/div/FO/freeorion_re ... tic.tar.gz

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:29 pm
by Tortanick
I tried it out on Debian etch, works beautifully. Thanks! Is there any reason why this isn't the default installation method for Linux, considering that freeorion is too early in development for Distro support.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:20 pm
by Geoff the Medio
Tortanick wrote:I tried it out on Debian etch, works beautifully. Thanks!
Indeed, thanks kroddn.
Is there any reason why this isn't the default installation method for Linux, considering that freeorion is too early in development for Distro support.
There are reportedly compatibility problems between different distros that will prevent this version from running in some cases. See earlier in this thread for discussion.

It seems to work great for debian-like distros though, and there is a link on the FreeOrion download page on the wiki.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:06 am
by kroddn
Some problems occur when using python2.5 - on Ubuntu 7.10 I had to install python2.4 to fix some error-messages appearing on the console.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:56 am
by kroddn

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:33 am
by pht
To my knowledge, static linking means no dynamic library dependencies. As far as I can see, v2379 is still depending on libGL and a few others.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:00 pm
by loonycyborg
It's necessary to link against OpenGL dynamically to use correct implementation(nvidia, ati...). It won't cause problems on different distros because OpenGL API is standardized.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:15 am
by kroddn
loonycyborg is right. With "statically linked" I meant "almost all libs statically linked". The main libs, which should be available on modern distributions, can be linked dynamically.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:20 pm
by kroddn
I released a new Version (SVN FO revision 2450 / GG revision 645):

http://psitronic.de/div/FO/

Now there is a Loki Installer which helps installing the game. Just run setup.sh inside the archive. The installer creates a system-wide symlink "freeorion" and menu-entries, if you wish to.

Read http://psitronic.de/div/FO/README.txt for instructions.

Re: Statically linked Linux-version

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:32 pm
by hagish
current version works perfect out of the box under ubuntu 7.10 gutsy