[EBuild] TA Spring (a futuristic RTS in full 3D)

midget · n00b Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 33

Oke! Thanks for the heads-up!
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Pythonhead · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:25 pm Post subject:

bobobo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 122

I'm getting sandbox violations when trying to compile taspring-linux-svn-0.72-r3 , using scons-0.96.1
Here is the end of the log :

suicidal_orange_II · Apprentice Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 299

Wow I would never have expected a port of TA

. Just compiled and tested on amd64 and it runs fine (though Zeus's dont attack? maybe they want an enemy first)

Thanks alot for your effort on this it looks great

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bobobo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 122

I reemerged scons , and could compile taspring fine, so something must have broke somehow, in scons. (so my post from 2 posts above is solved)

al-Quaknaa · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: Could not lock config

Hi everybody,
I've got a problem with TASpring, when I try to execute it, I just get XWindow saying:

poulpillusion · n00b Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 3

Hello,

I REALLY want to play this game, which looks very interesting (and it's an occasion for me to learn stuff about gentoo

) !

Unfortunately, I can't manage to launch the game !

I tryed the taspring-linux-release-0.72-r1.ebuild ( from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4358 ), but were not successful with it because I use a x86_64 gentoo.
As I have been advised on bugs.gentoo.org I created a 32bits chrooted environment
( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2 )

I have been able to compile the game. But when it's time to start, i get :

user@localhost ~ $ spring
Warning: DotfileHandler
Could not read from config file
spring is using data directory: /usr/share/games/taspring-linux-release
Warning: ERROR
Could not set video mode

I can create an empty ~/.springrc in order to avoid the "Could not read from config file" error message, but I don't know what to do for the "Could not set video mode" error message...

I use nvidia-drivers, and glxgears runs fine in my 32bits chrooted environment.

Now I don't know what else I can do. Please help me

poulpillusion · n00b Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 3

Ok, 32bits chroot was useless... I have been able to emerge taspring-linux-release-0.72-r1 directly on amd64.

I don't know why it doesn't work in the 32bits chroot, but at least I can play.

Anyway, taspring-linux-svn-0.72-r3 can't get emerged. It complains about missing zlib headers... but I have tried re emerging zlib and it doesn't work.

Enverex · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:05 pm Post subject:

Any chance of getting this into one of the overlays that Layman supports?

Mben · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:32 am Post subject:

I'm running a mostly up to date ~x86 install, and can't get taspring to build using either of the current ebuilds: taspring-linux-release-0.72-r1 or taspring-linux-svn-0.72-r3

The configure script fails with:

speeddemon · Apprentice Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 162

Enverex · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:21 am Post subject:

hollowsoul · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 31

Been busy lately i try & get ebuild updated tomorrow. Also got a few changes & fixes for UnityLobby i gonna get uploaded tomorrow. Broke my svn will updating Gentoo :/

As for 64bit spring should run as tvo a dev has it working.

There were a few bugs regarding the .springrc file in older releases that looks like u got bitten by.
If u want configure it by hand http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Config

Try using latest svn ebuild i.e https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4358
Also if u want add the UnityLobby flag its a pygtk app for Lobby Chat & setting up Single Player Games & for configuring spring options via ~/.springrc

As for getting spring added into portage be lovely, had a quick glance but unless u can maintain a single ebuild. The test to get to be an ebuild maintainer is way outof my league. Would be nice to get it in & would prob need few peep to have access to update it though

hollowsoul · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 31

@ pythonhead Afraid not atm.
No support for Lobby Chat to inform clients on OS / Client been used. As for lobby protocol telling other clients what client person is using is unneccasry & potentially a security risk. But inform clients on OS been used has been talked about. Prob get it added in when i get multiplayer working, hadnt had much time lately. But back now & getting help from Kloot aswell, so hopefully get it done soon.

edit:- nm about OS support in Lobby Protocol, next release prob be tomorrow has support for Windows Versus Linux (if built with gcc4 or higher)

sonicbhoc · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:07 am Post subject:

I think I'm doing it wrong... when I run spring after emerging it, what is supposed to happen? I get a menu, but I can't make sense of any of the options...

onlinepancakes · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:31 am Post subject:

troyboy162 · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Fort Drum NY

when i run

hollowsoul · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 31

@ sonicbhoc
Thats spring u got running & starting game via scripts. Its very basic
Basicly developers for engine work on the engine online. Leaving AI & 3rd party clients to other people.

For Windows u got

For Linux u got

onlinepancakes · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:26 am Post subject:

Any one wanna update the ebuild for 0.74b1 since it came out?
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hollowsoul · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 31

edit:- nm Radtoo working on ebuild & got some nice plans for them aswell

Rad · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject:

Almost done. Here is a snapshot of the almost finished (working) ebuilds.

The ebuild has been renamed from "taspring" to "spring", in order to reflect the fact that the project dropped the "TA" part as well. While the ebuild doesn't require you to, you should consider unmerging older ebuilds, and possibly delete ~/.spring and ~/.unity-lobby before reinstalling the new ebuild to get rid of old files and outdated configs associated with the old name. Otherwise running the game or unity-lobby may not work.

Another change is that I also tried to separate the things with as-of-yet unclear license status from the main Spring ebuild. The idea behind this is to get the main Spring (release/non-svn) ebuild into shape for inclusion into Gentoo's Bugzilla, and, ultimately, the official portage tree. This means that to get a mod that works with either an AI, or TA-style units, you'll have to pull in spring-mod-xta (which will install spring-base-ota), or manually install a different spring mod, which will likely also require you to install spring-base-ota.

Misc info:
A properly packaged release and topic update will follow as soon as I have verified a few things and talked to hollowsoul.
Official release notes for spring 0.74b1 are available here.

sonicbhoc · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject:

evert_ · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 37

When i saw this game , i thought it would be a very nice RTS game , so I'm trying to install this game.
I did everything what the first post says , but it's failing in step 7 : Emerge.

Here's my error log :

Rad · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject:

I think re-emerging openssl, neon and subversion (in that order) before spring might fix this. Maybe even just neon...

hollowsoul · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 31

Damn forgot about that problem when i am committing to spring svn.

Try Rad idea first, but if it doesnt work i had todo the following..

I had to to downgrade to lower version of svn & libneon / neon. Then i was able to grab off svn.
Dont have my gentoo box setup & working atm, so cant check the versions. But it be lower one.