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[Pipmak-Users] Linked libraries

[A T. <wgs...@ya...>]

Hello again,

 I take back what I said before about the window edge resistance with the mouse grabbing, because I stopped having trouble with it when I used the pre-compiled executable which has the physfs library staticly linked in.

 But I also wanted to know why the Pipmak source documentation says to compile Lua yourself instead of using a package from your distribution.  So, would it make a difference if I just used the Lua5 package from Debian, instead of getting the official source from the Lua project?  I can see now why it says to do this for the physfs library.

 I hope to actually create a game with Pipmak soon, but I still need to figure out my 3D modeling program.

Thanks,
Aidan

       
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Re: [Pipmak-Users] Linked libraries

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

>  I take back what I said before about the window edge resistance with 
> the mouse grabbing, because I stopped having trouble with it when I used 
> the pre-compiled executable which has the physfs library staticly linked in.

Are you sure that's caused by Physfs? I have no idea why that would have 
anything to do with it...

>  But I also wanted to know why the Pipmak source documentation says to 
> compile Lua yourself instead of using a package from your distribution.  

No specific reason. I just assumed that Lua and Physfs were less likely 
to be available as packages from a distribution than SDL and the other 
dependencies. Plus they're easy to build without having to install them 
and link in statically.

> So, would it make a difference if I just used the Lua5 package from 
> Debian, instead of getting the official source from the Lua project?

If you have Lua 5.0.x, I don't think so. Lua 5.1 has some small changes 
in the language, but I assume it should work as well. For the official 
release I've deferred updating to it until version 0.3, when backwards 
compatibility can be broken.

  -Christian

Re: [Pipmak-Users] Linked libraries

[A T. <wgs...@ya...>]

 I don't know for sure if it's physfs or not, but I tried doing some of the same things that caused the proble, with the mouse before (like moving from node to node, and clicking on handles), and it behaved fine.

 And lua 4, 5, and 5.1, and physfs are available from the Debian etch repositories, but i don't know about other distributions, so I guess it's best to be safe.

Thanks,
Aidan

Christian Walther <cwa...@gm...> wrote: >  I take back what I said before about the window edge resistance with 
> the mouse grabbing, because I stopped having trouble with it when I used 
> the pre-compiled executable which has the physfs library staticly linked in.

Are you sure that's caused by Physfs? I have no idea why that would have 
anything to do with it...

>  But I also wanted to know why the Pipmak source documentation says to 
> compile Lua yourself instead of using a package from your distribution.  

No specific reason. I just assumed that Lua and Physfs were less likely 
to be available as packages from a distribution than SDL and the other 
dependencies. Plus they're easy to build without having to install them 
and link in statically.

> So, would it make a difference if I just used the Lua5 package from 
> Debian, instead of getting the official source from the Lua project?

If you have Lua 5.0.x, I don't think so. Lua 5.1 has some small changes 
in the language, but I assume it should work as well. For the official 
release I've deferred updating to it until version 0.3, when backwards 
compatibility can be broken.

  -Christian


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