Re: [Super-tux-devel] Worldmap

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

Ricardo Cruz <ri...@ae...> writes:

>  That sounds really great! But when I try to run it, I get:
>
> [rick2@docelar supertux]$ supertux --worldmap
> supertux: worldmap.cpp:128: void WorldMapNS::WorldMap::load_map(): Assertion 
> `in' failed.
> Aborted
>
>  What's the problem?

'File not found', most likly due to the lack of the worldmap being
hooked up in the Makefile, thus not getting 'make installed'.

Which brings up the topic of how we should handle errors. I think we
should go for normal C++ exceptions, passing around such errors with
return codes would be a major pain. At the moment my code uses mostly
assert() since there currently isn't much usefull the worldmap can do
if it can't find content.

>  I also don't like the fact that we have to do 'make install', in
> order to run the game :(

Neither does me, I can fix this unless somebody else wants to do the
work. Changes for this would basically some startup code that finds
the binary location (/proc/self/exe) and sets a 'datadir' variable
pointing to it. In the game code I then need to replace DATA_PREFIX
with datadir and make sure that everything gets strcat()'s or whatever
properly, in the same run I can replace a bunch of char* with
std::string.

Current workaround by the way is:

./configure --prefix=$PWD

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