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This just does not make sense. There is an outdated libespeak.so that was compiled against outdated other libraries, and that's why Oolite needs to be shipped with outdated libraries? Now knowing that libespeak has not even be customized in any way what is the point of sticking to that binary? I ag...

It is good to have a platform agnostic professional IDE. If that work it should get a mention in the developer's corner in the wiki. For the build tool: I guess the makefile complexity is already there. Both a Makefile and a Gnumakefile are in effect, and they may spawn more such files IIRC. If some...

Here's what I've boiled the required lib mess down to. libespeak.so.1 ( choice of libespeak.so.1.alsa libespeak.so.1.pulseaudio ) Presumably because of the static reference to the espeak-data/intonations. libgnustep-base.so.1.28 libicudata.so.70 libicui18n.so.70 libicuuc.so.70 libpng14.so.14 Oolite...

another_commander wrote: ↑Tue Jul 08, 2025 9:25 am

the external libs source modifications document

Where is that hosted?

But then I tried something else: I turned off 'spoken messages'. And performance was stable, even with high traffic. So whatever the root cause for the effect, it is connected to the TTS engine. Wondering: is it possible for voice output to reckognize it is taking too much time for the events comin...

Next test: Oolite 1.91.0.7712-250703-6477e4d Flibble behaves mostly like the previous version 1.91.0.7710-250627-93a1322. But then I tried something else: I turned off 'spoken messages'. And performance was stable, even with high traffic. So whatever the root cause for the effect, it is connected to...

I just tested the legendary Oolite 1.90 release on my Ubuntu 24. It runs way better than 1.91. What did we change? What improvements might I be missing? AFAIK there is the HDR change - which only plays a role on capable Windows systems. Then there is phkb's keyboard update. I am using the keyboard f...

So I pressed Ctrl-F to activate the FPS display. After launching from the station I get between 60 to 75 FPS. But when times get hot, it can drop down to 20. This is where it gets unplayable. The rate drops intermittently - just when I am ready to shoot. Sometimes small corrections (even with pressi...

Looks like I already removed that, so you'd have had to install it anyway. viewtopic.php?p=301103#p301103 Another one to try might be SDL. Try: cd ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite-deps/lib/ mv libSDL-1.2.so.0 libSDL-1.2.so.0.hidden apt install libSDL-1.2-compat If we can figure which libraries ...

But there is a drop of bitterness: Sound output can get stuttery, and that impacts controlling the ship. Not good when lots of bad guys are around. So assuming you're on a test system, please try: rm ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite-deps/lib/libopenal.so.1 If you get a bunch of fail, you may ne...

Are you using my latest pre-release? If you are, I'll roll up an Ubu 24 to find out what's occurring. libgnustep-base.so.1.28 should appear in ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite-deps/lib. If it's built with 1.28, then bundling 1.28 should sort it even if a newer version is installed locally, or n...

:roll: The good news on the Linux front is that the release here https://github.com/OoMrFlibble/oolite/releases works. Is that qualifyable? Where did it work? I tried on my Ubuntu 24 LTS and it did not come up. Some required library (libgnustep 1.28) is not present. Well Ubuntu comes with 1.29 and h...

Oh one more thing: Touching the code would be so much easier if we knew what it's supposed to do. Could especially those with knowledge share that by adding comments? Preferrably in the form of Doxygen comments that can be monitored looking at the documentation coverage report? https://ooliteproject...

Today Oolite is already a mix of C/C++ and Objective C. Just take Oolite core (Objective C), the main classes for the various operating systems (C++, Objective C) and classes contained in dependencies (C/C++). If functionality were transported class by class, method by method we could have that smo...

Good to get a perspective on the scale of the task from an expert in the code. From what you've said, it sounds like the code could be getting to or past the point of no return where it might be more productive to start again than to try to bring it up to date. Is the best approach to try to keep i...