Porting library to Linux

GamerSg · 2005-04-16T06:30:27

Well ever since i started working on a Game Framework library, i had 1 important goal in mind which was to make it cross-platform. This was one of the main reasons for me to choose C++/OGL from the start. Ive tried 2 times now and have just gotten frustrated by the way things screw up for me in Linux. I admit i have little to no knowledge about how linux works but even compiling the CodeBlocks ide seems to be an impossible task. I want to use the CodeBlocks ide because it can import MSVC dsp/sln files and appears to be a good ide. I dont know how to use the other linux ides because i dont know how to work with makefiles. I have made an effort to make sure that my code will compile with gcc by compiling it in DevC++ on windows, so i suppose that as long as i use the linux version of the libraries, i shouldnt have any problems compiling it in linux. I tried Mandrake earlier but dependancy problems drove me to delete the whole linux partition and give up. I just tried ubuntu and still seem to have problems compiling the wxwidgets library let alone the ide. Any advice/reccommendations on what i should do? Any other ide's out there which will make my work easier?

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Started by GamerSg April 13, 2005 10:11 AM

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April 15, 2005 09:03 AM

Quote: Original post by GamerSg
Im using Ubuntu and the packet manager doesnt seem to have either of these libraries. It didnt even have the famous wxWidgets library which i also had problems compiling.

Add the debian-unstable repositiories to your /etc/apt/sources.list

# Primary
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
# deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
# deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

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April 16, 2005 06:30 AM

Are you sure using debian packages in ubuntu is a good idea? I think it would be wiser to use the "universe" repository instead. DevIL seems to be in "universe" (libdevlil1 and libdevil-dev) but I don't see GLFW.

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