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'''1 - You'll need, of course, Wine installed.'''<br> | '''1 - You'll need, of course, Wine installed.'''<br> | ||
Just use the version included with your distribution.<br> | Just use the version included with your distribution.<br> | ||
You can | You can compile from source but that is generally unnecessary. | ||
'''2 - Be sure to have 3D hardware acceleration enabled.'''<br> | '''2 - Be sure to have 3D hardware acceleration enabled.'''<br> | ||
Spring is a fully 3D game and will require | Spring is a fully 3D accelerated game and will require this. This usually means you have to install the nVidia/Ati commercial drivers. | ||
Install the package from you distribution. | |||
If you're having problems installing these, you'll also probably find better help at their web sites. | If you're having problems installing these, you'll also probably find better help at their web sites. | ||
The Spring forums are not really for general linux help, so refer to your distribution's forums - if they have any. | |||
To know if you have 3D acceleration working, you can execute | To know if you have 3D acceleration working, you can execute the following command: | ||
glxinfo | glxinfo | ||
If it shows the line: | If it shows the line: | ||
direct rendering: yes | direct rendering: yes | ||
You probably have | You probably have it working. | ||
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* If you already have Spring installed in Windows, make sure that partition is accessible in Linux, use a comand line to change directory (cd) into it and execute: | * If you already have Spring installed in Windows, make sure that partition is accessible in Linux, use a comand line to change directory (cd) into it and execute: | ||
wine TASClient.exe | wine TASClient.exe | ||
* If you don't have Spring installed yet, install it executing in a | * If you don't have Spring installed yet, install it executing in a command line where the installer file is located: | ||
wine taspring_0.73b3.exe | wine taspring_0.73b3.exe | ||
(or whatever else the installer might be called) | (or whatever else the installer might be called) | ||
Then, change directory to where you installed it to, generally: | Then, change directory to where you installed it to, generally: | ||
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/TASpring | cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/TASpring | ||
(the comand line only accepts " " spaces in paths if they have an "\" before, like: cd Program\ Files) | (the comand line only accepts " " spaces in paths if they have an "\" before, like: cd Program\ Files) | ||
And, similarly, execute: | And, similarly, execute: | ||
wine TASClient.exe | wine TASClient.exe | ||
Suse Linux 9.3 installs Wine by default and had the option, through the YOU auto-updating tool, to automatically install the commercial drivers. If your distribution also has such options, it can save you much work. | |||
It should be noted that in the multiplatform code releases of Spring (0.7x) you may need to run Spring in fullscreen or the mouse will not work. Only spring needs to run in fullscreen though, so you can have wine emulate a virtual desktop and run spring fullscreen inside that. | |||
[[Category:Source development]] | [[Category:Source development]] | ||
[[Category:Linux Port]] | [[Category:Linux Port]] | ||
Revision as of 20:51, 2 June 2006
Spring is running on Linux! But it's not ready for a release, networking and sound need love for example.
To compile spring yourself, refer to the SetupGuide.
The Linux release Roadmap is useful if you want to know how you can help.
The Linux porting effort is underway at BerliOS.
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/taspring-linux/
The linux port wiki startpoint is: http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/MultiplatformSpring
The old linux port wiki (which may or may not work at the moment) was: http://taspring-linux.berlios.de/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage
The old location for Linux development was https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/taspring_linux/trac.cgi/wiki
The Linux porting mailinglist can be found at http://lolut.utbm.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taspring-linux a move to the mailinglist provided by BerliOS is posible in the (near) future.
The first sceenshot of Spring running on Linux.
Running Spring via wine
Even though a native Linux port of Spring is progressing well you can play Spring on Linux using Wine:
This is unconfirmed, if it's not working please figure it out and update this wiki page!
And if you had success with these guidelines please let us know.
1 - You'll need, of course, Wine installed.
2 - Be sure to have 3D hardware acceleration enabled.
3 - Install Spring or use an already installed Spring in Windows.
1 - You'll need, of course, Wine installed.
Just use the version included with your distribution.
You can compile from source but that is generally unnecessary.
2 - Be sure to have 3D hardware acceleration enabled.
Spring is a fully 3D accelerated game and will require this. This usually means you have to install the nVidia/Ati commercial drivers.
Install the package from you distribution.
If you're having problems installing these, you'll also probably find better help at their web sites.
The Spring forums are not really for general linux help, so refer to your distribution's forums - if they have any.
To know if you have 3D acceleration working, you can execute the following command:
glxinfo
If it shows the line:
direct rendering: yes
You probably have it working.
3 - Install Spring or use an already installed Spring in Windows.
- If you already have Spring installed in Windows, make sure that partition is accessible in Linux, use a comand line to change directory (cd) into it and execute:
wine TASClient.exe
- If you don't have Spring installed yet, install it executing in a command line where the installer file is located:
wine taspring_0.73b3.exe (or whatever else the installer might be called) Then, change directory to where you installed it to, generally: cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/TASpring (the comand line only accepts " " spaces in paths if they have an "\" before, like: cd Program\ Files) And, similarly, execute: wine TASClient.exe
Suse Linux 9.3 installs Wine by default and had the option, through the YOU auto-updating tool, to automatically install the commercial drivers. If your distribution also has such options, it can save you much work.
It should be noted that in the multiplatform code releases of Spring (0.7x) you may need to run Spring in fullscreen or the mouse will not work. Only spring needs to run in fullscreen though, so you can have wine emulate a virtual desktop and run spring fullscreen inside that.
