Oolite Bulletins

Off the top of my head I'm pretty sure IRIX has strlcpy() but I'll have an answer either way tomorrow morning and I'll adjust the *BSD and IRIX packages accordingly. I can also have a bash at the makefile, although I've not messed with GNUmake that much it can't be radically different to the standar...

Good question, I don't have any machines with Intel graphics to test with. I have a few ATI cards kicking about though and I'll have a bash at those this afternoon. It works with Mesa just fine, obviously performance is appalling.

Celkins: A few observations of my time doing prebuilds on *BSD. I stayed away from the ports version of SDL due to the changes in location and sdl-config renaming. It doesn't really affect anything but I find it a pain in the arse. A single filesystem structure makes it simpler to do regular builds ...

Being a network manager and fully payed-up BOFH I have a few favourite acronyms - PEBCAC, LART, STFUARTFM and P45

Spooky stares longingly at his Onyx running SGI's fabulous OpenGL Performer environment. http://www.sgi.com/products/software/performer/ It gives you the capability to scale easily to multiple processors and multiple graphics pipelines, deploy to a wide range of systems and price points, and be read...

I have a functional NetBSD 3.0 x86 build of Oolite. However there seems to be a complete lack of decent accelerated OpenGL support for any hardware (NVidia, ATI or otherwise. I've tried the LKM hacked Nvidia module and it's incredibly unstable). I feel that without this there's little point maintain...

I've got the 5.X package done and tested it on a few machines. It seems to exhibit the same requirement for a link between Oolite/oolite-deps/GNUsetp and /usr/GNUstep as the IRIX build did. Again I've solved this with a check and link in the installer. This has to be something I'm doing as I am now ...

(That's the Evil Genius Grin(TM), I presume?)

Yeah why not... if it makes you happy

(That's the Evil Genius Grin(TM), I presume?)

You jest, but I'm working on a NetBSD 3.0 build too... so if anyone has a GL equiped toaster they could lend me I'll give it bash

Sorted :twisted: There are some serious issue with threading libraries in FreeBSD. A quick change to the GNUmakefile to switch to -pthread instead of -lpthread and it looks like we're laughing. I'm gonna run it through gdb tomorrow morning just to make sure everything is tickeyboo and then it's onto...

I agree with TGHC. If people want Oolite-lite then let them work on it. Your valuable time can be better spent elsewhere.

3 *cough* 4 edits, and complete rewrite later... you wouldn't think english was my first language at all

Ahhh, the wonders of GNUstep... I was wrong to point the finger at SDL it was merely a ruse. After a long and productive period with gdb I can confirm that GNUstep is having a serious falling out with libpthread during __objc__init_threadsystem(). Yay! Once again this may inhibit the timescales on m...

According to gmemusage and top the 190M is pretty much all for Oolite, with a small shared componant. I guess the architectural differences are greater than I thought. As for the framerates I'm not entirely sure what to ascribe the differences in performance too... I guess the XBOW / hub based desig...

Currently I'm just emulating what the stand alone Linux package by Winston does. I have no intentions of integrating this into the FreeBSD ports tree for primarily time and responsibility reasons. I can provide installation notes and diffs for any changes if you are volunteering

I play on a variety of machines and one of them is an SGI Indigo2 workstation. It has a 195Mhz processor, 512 M of RAM and Maximum Impact graphics set with 27M of framebuffer and 1M of Texture memory (In terms of raw performance numbers far inferior to an original GeForce). It just about manages 15f...

I'm almost there :wink: I'm trying to run a slight segmentation fault in SDL to ground then I'll get it to winston to host. Currently I have two seperate packages for FreeBSD 5 and FreeBSD 6. The only difference between the two builds is the links to the core system libraries. Is it worth me buiding...