Re: [TuxKart-devel] Work to do.

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

pmb wrote:

> I'm familiar too with C++.
> I was thinking about that, you need some way to recognise the different 
> players on the track, how about some penguins with linux distributions 
> logos, ex: At the config area I chose a Debian logo, and during the 
> game, it would show that logo on the back of my kart. Just my idea though.

I think we've already agreed that using distro-specific stuff isn't a good
idea.

But have you actually played the game yet?   There are already little
pictorial icons to show who is in the lead, etc.

> I also am interested to port the game to differents oses, I have 3 
> solaris cdrom there that I could use.
> Mayby I could also port it to windows. It would be a great idea to put 
> UDP multiplayer in that.

Woah there.  Tuxkart ALREADY runs under Solaris and Windows...and every
other OS (that I'm aware of) that has a functional hardware-accellerated
OpenGL implementation.  There isn't really a need to port it...it's *done*.

In fact, I write all of my games to be portable from day #1.  TuxKart
was running under Windows within hours of the release of v0.0.0.  Norman
Vine (who is still subscribed here) took it - IIRC, he found a couple of
places where I'd done stuff like:

    for ( int i = .... )
      whatever ;
    for ( int i = .... )
      whatever_else ;

...which prompts an error under MSVC.  Anyway, we had a Windows version
running within hours of the Linux version.

If you want to try it, just take a copy of PLIB and TuxKart - unpack them
and either build them with MSVC *or* CygWin (the latter is easier because
the configure and Makefile stuff is standard - but if you can throw together
a project file, you *can* build it with MSVC tools).

Under Solaris, you just need the usual './configure ; make' - I believe
it's all been built and tested with GCC - dunno how things would go with
any kind of native Sun-supplied compiler.

> One question: do I  staticaly include PLIB ? does it come with solaris ????

You have to build PLIB for Solaris - in exactly the same way you do in Linux.

> So what do you think about that ?

Sorry - porting is a non-problem.

However, network play would be a useful thing to have.

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