GearHead for Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X) updated

[michalis]

Hi

http://michalis.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~michalis/gearhead_ unix/

contains newest GearHead binaries, for GH2 0.460.

It also includes new platforms --- Mac OS X (Intel), and Linux-x86_64 (GearHead is 64 bit now ), in addition to Linux-i386 and FreeBSD-i386. 64-bit version was done partially to test (and fix) jedi-sdl for x86_64, in case someone is interested the patch to jedi-sdl is submitted here.

[Erathoniel]

Nice work.

I'll try to test it on a Mac later today. Dunno if it's Intel.

[Joseph Hewitt]

I've stickied this post, and I'll upload everything to SourceForge when I get a chance.

[MCP]

Hi,
I got fink for os x 10.5,
but how do I install/download SDL?

Posting that probably simple one line command will help a lot.
Thanks.

edit:
I still needed to do
fink selfupdate

NOW, it lists all of the available packages.

edit2:
Run gearhead application after sdl installed:
dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.0.dylib

ls /sw/lib/libSDL*
/sw/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.11.2.dylib   
/sw/lib/libSDL.dyl ib
/sw/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib   
/sw/lib/libSDL.la
/sw/lib/libSDL.a      
/sw/lib/libSDLmain.a

any suggestions?

edit3:
Needed to install SDL image, SDL ttf, and well I installed the rest as well.
Now it works when I start it from X11.

[michalis]

Hi,

http://michalis.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~michalis/gearhead_ unix/

now contains newest GearHead2 binaries, GH2 0.511. For Linux (32-bit and 64-bit), FreeBSD, Mac OS X. Enjoy!

Note: if you have a Unix-specific problem, like running GH under Linux, and I don't answer on this forum, feel free to bug me through email (michalis.kambi AT gmail.com). Admittedly, I do not watch this forum all the time, that's why sometimes forum questions (like above by MCP) may get unanswered.

(Alternatively, if someone can tell me how to get notifications from this forum through rss or email, such that I can know about new posts without visiting the forum by www browser, I'll be very happy ).

[Boyce]

The mac osx builds you put up are only for the i386 architecture.  Would it be possible to make a build for the power pc architecture?  Or even better if you could point me in the right direction to make my own build?  Thanks.

[Tripsky]

hi all,

massive fan of the game, massive fan of michalis' work. just wondering if there's going to be any more packages for mac? haven't been able to get the pc version to work on any emulators and am considering putting windows (sob) on my mac just so i can play the new versions of gh2. if anyone has had luck with this please let me know!

[michalis]

Latest GearHead2 0.628 binaries are available at the usual place:

  http://michalis.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~michalis/gearhead_unix/

As always, have fun!

@Boyce: Unfortunately, I cannot produce PowerPC executables, since I don't have access to any PowerPC mac.  Your only hope may be to compile it yourself, both FreePascal and SDL support PowerPC without problems as far as I know.

[Tripsky]

michalis, thanks for the update!

sadly i'm having a problem running the 0.628 OSX console version. terminal gives me this error:

logoutandled exception occurred at $00057105 :
EInOutError : File not found
[Process completed]
57105
$00057998

is anyone having the same problem or have any ideas why this might not be working?

[michalis]

EInOutError : File not found

You must run the game from it's directory. That is, open a Terminal, and type

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cd <...path where you unpacked gearhead tar.gz...>/GH2/
./gearhead

That's because gearhead looks for it's data files relative to the current directory.

Eventually, I may prepare some day a nicer package for Mac OS X (using the "boundle" on Mac Os X), this would allow you to just double-click on it to run. But for now...