The Exploits of Plouj

This is documentation of how I used Yukon and Seom to video capture a Google Earth trip for a recent video project in Fedora 10. I used the official installation guide as a starting point.

Compile the Seom library

I choose to install both Seom and Yukon in a custom prefix /home/plouj/yukon, rather than the system wide /usr or /usr/local.

$ svn co https://devel.neopsis.com/svn/seom/branches/packetized-stream seom
$ cd seom
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/plouj/yukon --arch="x86" --cflags="-W -Wall" && \
make CC="gcc -m32" && make install LIBDIR="lib"

Note that “–arch=”x86″ and “-m32″ are only necessary for me because my operating system is 64bit and I need 32bit versions of seom and yukon (to work with 32bit Google Earth).

Compile and install Yukon

$ svn co https://devel.neopsis.com/svn/yukon/branches/rewrite yukon
$ cd yukon
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/plouj/yukon/ --libdir="lib" --arch="x86" && \
make CC="gcc -L/home/plouj/yukon/lib -I/home/plouj/yukon/include -m32" && \
make install

Install Google Earth for Linux

Obviously get it here: http://earth.google.com/

Modify the Google Earth startup script

Since I chose /home/plouj/bin/ as the “Binary path” for Google Earth I was editing /home/plouj/bin/googleearth. All I had to do was to add yukon/seom library and executable paths at the end of the script:

...
cd "${GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH}/"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/plouj/yukon/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH \
PATH=/home/plouj/yukon/bin:$PATH exec yukon "./googleearth-bin" "$@"

instead of the original:

cd "${GOOGLEEARTH_DATA_PATH}/"
exec "./googleearth-bin" "$@"

Capture

Finally, the capture process is well documented on the Yukon website.

Introduction

In this post I’ll document the steps I had to take to build DXX-Rebirth (a modernized Descent game engine) for Windows using MSYS and MinGW.

MinGW, MSYS

From  Pantokrator’s blog:

• install MinGW
  • choose a lowercase install path: c:\mingw
  • choose to download and install current version
  • enable g++ (for physfs)
• install MSYS
• install msysDTK

SDL and SDL_mixer

Also from  Pantokrator’s blog:

• download the SDL source
• in the MSYS shell, compile it with

./configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install

• download the SDL_mixer source and in a MSYS shell, build it with the same command:

./configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install

PhysicsFS

• Download the physfs 1.1.0 source.

• Compile with the same command again:

./configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install

SCons and Python

From Globulation2 MinGW instructions:

• install Python 2.6
• install SCons
• add:

PATH=$PATH:/c/Python26:/c/Python26/Scripts

• to the end of /etc/profile in MSYS so that SCons can run from the MSYS shell.

Subversion

• install TortoiseSVN

DXX-Rebirth

• checkout DXX-Rebirth from https://dxx-rebirth.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dxx-rebirth
• change the SConstruct script to call sdl-config as ‘sh sdl-config ‘:

...
Flags and stuff for all platforms...
env.ParseConfig('sh sdl-config --cflags')
env.ParseConfig('sh sdl-config --libs')
env.Append(CPPFLAGS = ['-Wall', '-funsigned-char'])
...

• finally, in the MSYS shell, built with:

scons sdlmixer=1

Final Remarks

I had trouble with the latest version of PhysicsFS (1.1.1) because it uses cmake. For some reason it failing to find some prerequisites in MSYS. I also had trouble with version 1.0.1 of PhysicsFS (this is the version the official d1x-rebirth_v0.55.1-win.zip is built with) because the built failed with the following error:

warning: cannot find entry symbol _DllMainCRTStartup@12; defaulting to 00401000
...
undefined reference to WinMain@16

If you notice any problems or mistakes in this post, please mention them in the comments.