FreeOrion

http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/V0.4 ... Play_Guide

This guide is also quite useful to get started.

Perhaps you can just modify that CmakeList.txt to refer to a different directory tree, where the current svn information is present? I have to patch CMakeList.txt anyway because FreeOrion's upstream source and Debian's debian directory are separated. I checkout the whole svn repository at revision ...

I guess i know what the problem is. Auto-updating only works if we build inside SVN but as soon as all the hidden svn directories are removed, there is no log history anymore and this and other code in CMakeList.txt no longer works. if (NOT result) string(REGEX REPLACE ".*Last Changed Rev: ([0-...

Hmm, strange. The last commit for CMakeList.txt before the official release 5771 was 5362 http://freeorion.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freeorion/trunk/FreeOrion/CMakeLists.txt?revision=5362&view=markup&pathrev=5362 Version is 0.4.1 and svn revision ??? Also, the particular svn revision number...

To build the official Debian package for the last stable release of FreeOrion, 0.4.2, i have checked out svn revision 5771. If i build the package, then there is a version string displayed in-game that does not match the official release. I see 0.4.1 rev ??? but it should be 0.4.2 rev5771. It's easy...

Nice!

Also nice to see that FreeOrion builds on i386. Do you know by chance which platforms are officially supported or on what other platforms FreeOrion has already been successfully built?

I have uploaded the sources and the deb packages to a ftp server. You can download the sources with dget -x ftp://46.182.19.209/freeorion/freeorion_0.4.2+svn5771-1.dsc amd64: ftp://46.182.19.209/freeorion/freeorion_0.4.2+svn5771-1_amd64.deb ftp://46.182.19.209/freeorion/freeorion-data_0.4.2+svn5771-...

I will upload the deb packages and the source version of FreeOrion to a ftp server tomorrow. I think that's the easiest solution.

Thank you both for your reply. So in short that means you are in the same situation as any other user of FreeOrion. From my point of view i see the benefits of source files, preferably in a standardized open source format. In general it is then much easier to export files to different file formats. ...

Hello, I'm working on an official Debian package for FreeOrion at the moment as i have already pointed out in this thread: http://www.freeorion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=7434 In Debian people care a lot about building everything from source. There are even some contributors who think that a...

Hello and thanks for testing! I have seen no issues so far and the game compiles here. I wonder about the following lines you have posted: dpkg-source: info: building freeorion using existing ./freeorion_0.4.2+svn5771.orig.tar.gz Not a big issue but why did you change from xz compression to gz compr...

Work on the official Debian package is still ongoing but for everyone who is interested in an already working package of FreeOrion, here is the link to Debian's git repository. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/freeorion.git git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-games/freeorion.git You can obtain...

Thank you for pointing this out. Indeed using FindBullet.cmake, that comes with Debian's cmake package, solved my problem.

Hi all, I have recently packaged Bullet for Debian and i'm aiming at bringing FreeOrion to Debian and its derivatives now. So far i'm at stage 1, compilation. I had a recent success and now the game builds here on amd64, i can already play it, but cmake can't find the official Bullet package and i h...