ZGE under WINE and games under Linux

kattle87 · Post by **kattle87** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:35 pm

Actually, I have discovered a STRANGE behaviour under wine, but I was able to work on my project using the WINE layer 1.0-ReleaseCandidate on Ubuntu linux, and this is a big win for me

The point is: when i want to add a new component, if I right click then choose "Add a new component" the chooser is shown then the entire GUI locks in, and i have to start a terminal to kill WINE. If I press "ctrl+a" the chooser works perfectly!!!!
I am wondering: WHAT THE HELL?????

The only reasonable answer is that popups are not handled very well by wine...

Finally, I can't get my games working under Linux: I build a Linux game then when I try to start it i get the message "OpenGL could not be loaded". What packets do I need to have installed exactly?

Post by **VilleK** » Thu May 22, 2008 6:24 pm

I'm glad to hear you got it working under Wine!

ZGE-runtime looks for "libGL.so".

I'm no Linux expert but I know you can make links in the filesystem, so if you have OpenGL installed as "libGL.so.2" you can type this to make a link:

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sudo ln -s libGL.so.2 libGL.so

Please let me know if you encounter any more problems.

kattle87 · Post by **kattle87** » Fri May 30, 2008 11:51 am

I have a question regarding MacOsX (I'm updating the wiki).
Is the support for MacOsX limited to x86 intel CPUs? Because I noticed something similar giving a look to the ZGE source yesterday...

Post by **VilleK** » Fri May 30, 2008 12:48 pm

Yes, ZGE Mac OSX support is limited to x86-processors. The reason for this is both that there are short snippets of x86-assembler (math-routines) in the source, and also that the binary data streaming of ZGE is not written to handle the different byte-ordering of PowerPC. It could be fixed but I'm not sure it would be worth the effort now when all new Mac-computers are Intel-based.

kattle87 · Post by **kattle87** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:06 am

Is linux support also limited to x86 CPUs?
Because I was going to buy a Neo FreeRunner which is linux based, (should have) 2D/3D acceleration but is ARM-based.

Post by **VilleK** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:57 am

The binary for Linux that ZGE generates is Intel-based. Freepascal can compile code for ARM so a port of the player should be possible with only a little bit of effort. I'll help you if you want to try.

diki · Post by **diki** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:15 pm

kattle: did you need to install any native dll's / perform any tricks to get zge working in wine? i'm at a loss regarding the wall of debug that wine throws at me ;) ... running games made with zge works nicely, though.

kattle87 · Post by **kattle87** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:10 pm

last time I checked I had to do nothing but fire up the exe.. It complained a lot but in the end worked (BTW: if you get stuck when opening a dialog, try pressing esc before powering down your PC)
I might give it a try with the latest vers to see what happens