{"author_name":"noffle","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324348320,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"60221","p_author":"noffle","p_authorkey":"7577","p_urlkey":"95974","p_title":"Porting woes.","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324348320","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7577","us_name":"noffle","us_username":"noffle","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"

It’s done!! If you are running Linux, go ahead and play<\/a>. As for the other platforms..<\/p>\n

Two and a half hours after the jam has ended, and I’m still trying to get my game working on the three Big Ones. Ungh — it’s painful. I’m using C++ with Allegro and Chipmunk.<\/p>\n

Linux:<\/strong>\u00a0Done. Not too bad. I didn’t have a statically linked copy of Allegro, so I’m including the Allegro shared lib, hackishly setting \u00a0LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and relying on users to run a “run_game.sh” script that sets the env var and runs the game. Does anyone know how to nicely distribute a game that relies on a shared lib?<\/p>\n

OS X:<\/strong>\u00a0More or less done. Figuring out how to package things into a .app was painful. THEN figuring out how to put the .app inside of a .dmg was even more “fun” (thanks though<\/a>, guys). The other fun news is that Allegro relies on QuickDraw, an older OS X API for doing software rendering. It was deprecated (but functional) in Snow Leopard, but trying to run it on a Lion machine reveals that support was dropped entirely. So, on Lion machines, the game will toss a bus error when run in fullscreen. *grumblegrumble* Fine then. Since I can’t even catch the failure gracefully, Mac users will have to settle for a windowed version.<\/p>\n

Windows:<\/strong>\u00a0About to start on it, but I suspect it will be more of the same awful. I didn’t see any nice binaries for Chipmunk lying around, so I suspect I’ll need to compile that myself using some arcane MinGW IDE like Dev-C++ or Code::Blocks.<\/p>\n

Next year I’m either going to use Java, or invest some time making a set of scripts to automate at least some of these cross-platform chores.<\/p>\n

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