Re: [netPanzer-Devel] netpanzerl linux port

[Tyler Nielsen]

Heh,  Missed this one.  This looks like you did some good stuff.  I
can't seem to download the file.  It looks like the webserver is down, I
can't ping it.  Hopefully we can get this up on cvs soon :)

Tyler

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 07:25, Matze Braun wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> 
> > Matze Braun <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > I'm Matthias Braun and I was wondering how far the linux porting
> > > plans of netpanzer are. 
> > 
> > At the moment we are still at the very beginning, aka. not started at
> > all. 
> Ok, as I expected :)
> 
> I already started yesterday to get a bit of the stuff compiling. Now after 
> fixing lots of little msvc and win32 vs. gcc and linux things I've got the 
> stuff inside the Lib directory compiling. (It doesn't link though, because 
> the code there violates the rules and uses classes from the main game :-/)
> 
> I've uploaded my changes here for now:
>       http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uxsm/netpanzer.tar.bz2
> 
> I tried to document what I changed:
> -Added very basic makefile
> -removed #include "Stdafx.h" from all source files, gcc doesn't have 
> precompiled headers like msvc.
> -Added some missing include in several files
> -Removed strange double-include protection from codewiz.hpp
> -Removed DOS-compilation stuff from codewiz.hpp
> -Renamed TRUE to true, FALSE to false, BOOL to bool and removed the 
> definitions
>  for them from codewiz.hpp
> -Removed BYTE,WORD,DWORD definitions from codewiz.hpp these are already 
> defined
>  in Types/LibTypes.hpp
> -Commented memset assembler routines in codewiz.hpp
> -removed special WATCOM/MSVC #pragmas in lots of places in codewiz.hpp
> -changed type of PALETTE_LENGTH to size_t
> -added a SWAP function to codewiz.hpp, couldn't find one elsewhere in the
>  project. Also added a SWAP function with an explicit temporary variable 
> which
>  is used at some places in the project (does this bring speed?)
> -made destructor of Surface, Component, SpritePacked virtual
> -changed usage of zeroMem to memset
> -use memcpy instead of memcpyB
> -Added a stub of RDTSC function to cTimeStamp.cpp, need an implementation 
> there.-Added a dummy GameTemplateView.hpp. Needs investigation why the Lib 
> includes
>  files from the main game.
> -copied KeyScanCodeDefs.h from main game
> -removed #if _MSC_VER > 1000 #pragma once #endif randomly from several 
> files...
> -removed /= (const float&) in fXYZ class (/= (float) is enough)
> -gave up with the Lib/Main Game dependencies and added include paths to 
> the maingame in the Makefiles...
> -removed "aliasdef.h" from several files (it contained yet another 
> definition of  a boolean type...), several renames again :-/
> -added int return type to getUnitInfoDrawLayer in GameConfig
> -changed iRect constructor to use const types
> -disabled all joystick code
> -casted several floats to ints in ColorTable.cpp to avoid warnings
> -Commented out several uses of _splitpath (which is win32 only) at 
> FileList.cpp
> -fixed some upper/lowercase errors in #include statements
> -commented out code that uses _findfirst in Surface.cpp and 
> PackedSurface.cpp,
>  this is a win32 only function
> -casted some floats to int in Palette.cpp to avoid warnings
> -commented out several assembler routines in Span.cpp
> -removed custom memcpy from Surface.cpp
> -changed a MessageBox to fprintf(stderr, ...) in Surface.cpp
> -added implementation of MIN and MAX to codewiz.hpp
> -renamed stricmp to strcasecmp in UtilInterface.cpp
> -made some functions in SpritePacked and Sprite const-correct
> -commented out lots of code in DirtKickParticle2D, because a variable 
> didn't
> to be defined. Did teh same in GroundExplosionParticle
> -some more const-correctness fixes in GroundExplosionParticle and
> TrajectoryParticle.
> -made some functions in WorldViewInterface const-correct, same in 
> ViewCamera
> -commented out some direct sound code in ParticleInterface.cpp
> -renamed some occurences of NULL to 0 in ParticleSystem2D
> -commented out isRolloverEnabled in AbstractButton.hpp, this variable 
> doesn't
> seem to exist.
> 
> ----------------------------
> 
> This is a list of things which we have to look at in the Lib dir:
> 
> -Fix or completely remove the Joystick code. (IMO we should remove it, 
> because
>  controling this game with joystick isn't a good idea)
> -Fix FileList.cpp to use only ANSI-C functions, so that we don't need the 
> win32
>  _splitpath anymore. The same is in UtilInterface.cpp
> -Fix PackedSurface.cpp, Surface.cpp to not use _findfirst anymore...
> -Write new timercode the assembler cTimeStamp.cpp isn't portable
> -Write new code instead of the assembler in Span.cpp and Surface.cpp
> -ParticleInterface.cpp contains some DirectSound code which needs to be 
> replaced-GroundExplosionParticle, RadarPingParticle2D and 
> DirtKickParticle2D seem to
>  miss some Surface variables, where are these defined?
> -PUFF_PARTICLE_TYPE isn't defined in SmokingTrajectoryParticle
> 
> Greetings,
>       Matze
> 
> 
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