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I had the same issue under Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 and I was able to solve it by using sigonasr2's post. First, make sure your deb-src sources are enabled. Issue this in the terminal: sudo apt-get build-dep bzflag Then, we need to grab the source code. Anomaly's comment about corruption may be true becau...

Ah, thank you for this post! :) While I find Linux and its tools a neat thing to play around with, much of my work done for college application projects is done within the Windows environment. This is great as I don't have to give up my favorite IDE either. Sticky this or update it in the wiki. One ...

If one were to develop for bzflag, would there be any specific software requirements? Do the gcc & g++ versions have to be exactly the same, or can it just be version 4.x.x?

It's possible that configure is looking in the wrong place for your libraries. There's a way to tell it to point to a different path, but I can't remember how to do that at the moment.

Make sure you have ALL of the SDL libraries and the libcurl library with it.

I can't find the source for it. The link is broken & beta.bzflag.bz doesn't have a tarball. Is there a problem with the source?

:( That would be my last choice. Everything else works quite good. Well, since you don't seemed inclined to upgrade, I've heard the not only is 10.3 faster than other versions but the package manager is much improved. Back up your stuff, install 10.3 & I think you'll be a happier person. :) Per...

It'll take you a little while to get up to that speed. I would grab a copy of Sam's Teach yourself C++ In 21 Days and see if you like it afterwards.

More than likely, it's the Matrox driver that's giving you issues. 10.1's a bit old, so the current driver for your distro probably isn't up-to-date. openSuSE 10.3 was just released, so I would try that & see if that makes a difference.

is there a way to create bots in c#? Not directly because if you look at the file extensions for bzrobots, they have a .CXX extension, which is an old style C++ extension. Plus, C# is mainly tied to Windows, so using it for a game that's ported to almost anything would be impractical. With that sai...

No issues here, in fact, I generated an amd64 deb package using checkinstall and that works really nice. My current compiles of v2_0branch are having an odd bug. In very rare occasions my client freezes after shooting one bullet for about 2 seconds, the outgoing bullet is huge in the HUD, I can not ...

I was browsing around in the Ubuntu repos when I came across it. Curiosity took over from there.

nm, I was missing two packages, x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev and x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev. However, this one I can't figure out: /home/master/bzflag/src/platform/LinuxDisplay.cxx:186: undefined reference to `XF86VidModeSwitchToMode' /home/master/bzflag/src/platform/LinuxDisplay.cxx:198: undefined refere...

Ahh, I knew I had to install a couple other things (autoconf, automake & libtool). Thanks! However, after make, it doesn't like the make install command. make[2]: Entering directory `/home/master/bzflag/src/platform' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/master/bzflag/src/platform' /bin/sh ../../li...

Dunno why, but here's the output. sid:/home/master/bzflag# ./autogen.sh -v Verbose output enabled Found a configure template: ./configure.ac Preparing the BZFlag build system...please wait Checking autoreconf version: autoreconf --version Checking autoconf version: autoconf --version ERROR: Unable t...

On my CentOS system, I use bzflag 2.0.2. It runs fine with no issues, but the audio driver it picks is esd. Is there a way to change it to alsa? esd doesn't sound that good.

Yeah. those kernel updates are a pisser. That's one issue I had with Fedora Core because they would update the whole kernel (Ubuntu just puts security updates for the kernel). My wireless and nvidia drivers would be non-existant. It was fun for about the first day, but doing it over and over grew to...

What's the card, driver version, & distro that you are using?