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Thanks Gavan! This is exciting, I've been waiting for this for a while. The code looks super hacky, but that's to be expected :)

Hopefully it gets ported to Mac and GNU/Linux soon. If not, I'd definitely like to try and port it over when I get some spare time. Cheers!

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Your welcome. :) The porting process should not be all that difficult - mainly a few things have to be done:

  1) Create a bash script to replace the batch scripts
  2) Rebuild dependencies for the right platform
  3) Ideally have some sort of cross-platform build generation like cmake
  4) Pray to your gods

I was looking into how to run lzz using gnu make on osx and while https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11186528/makefile-rule-f... gives some nice hints, I agree that cmake might make more sense in the long run, even if it is less "standard" than gnu make.

Also, drop by on Freenode #VoxelQuest sometime. We're still hanging around in there.

I've seen your name in the chat, and I apologize for rarely going in there! User "Talvieno" tells me it is often active in there. I need to automatically log in as I rarely manually fire up most of my chat applications. (PS I am in the chat now http://www.voxelquest.com/chat.html)

Cmake is probably overkill. DJB redo can handle multiple dependencies easily. My implementation only depends on Unix standard utilities like stat and md5sum: http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/redo-sh.html

I've started the process of writing a Linux port. I already have a few shell scripts I can push back into your git repo, but still having a few issues compiling:

    $ g++ -Wall  -I./SFML-2.1/include compiled/main.cpp -I./glew/include -I./freeglut/include -o voxelquest
    compiled/main.cpp:124:19: fatal error: gl/gl.h: No such file or directory
     #include <gl/gl.h>
                       ^
    compilation terminated.

I can't seem to find gl.h anywhere in your project sources. Any ideas where I can find it?

edit: nevermind. It was already installed on my system. Seems to be a few cases where you've used lowercase gl paths in your includes which is breaking on Linux because the paths are in uppercase. Easily fixed with a `sed` script though.

Cool! I am going to work on porting to OSX today

As you seem to use shell scripts to build the game, I suggest to use redo, which provides dependency management for shell scripts: http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/redo-sh.html

Where can I find your code?

I don't speak for M. Woolery, but one can find my code here:

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/redo/

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/redo/grosskurth-redo.html

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/introduction-to-redo.html

Thanks. I thought your web site was permanently offline!

Please do not use Bash, but Bourne Shell (sh). Bash-specific shell scrips are more complex and slower than sh and not portable. Bourne Shell scripts run unmodified in Bash.

will do :)

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