Ppc Linux
by Stephen Dennison · in Torque Game Engine · 03/09/2005 (6:42 pm) · 6 replies
Evenings I like to be able to watch television while doing work on my laptop. I have an iBook g4 running Gentoo. The problem with this is that the TGE download for linux comes as an x86 binary. Is there any way I can get either source or a ppc linux binary?
Also, I'd appreciate not seeing "So why are you running linux on a mac?" in the reply ;-)
Also, I'd appreciate not seeing "So why are you running linux on a mac?" in the reply ;-)
#2
Has anyone else tried to use it on ppc?
03/10/2005 (5:12 am)
I thought that might be the case, but I can't open the *.bin file since it's an executable for x86... When I've repaired my desktop I'll try to run it on there and copy the files over.Has anyone else tried to use it on ppc?
#3
03/10/2005 (7:43 am)
That's because TGE now comes with installers. You'll probably need to download it and extract it in a PC ( or VPC ) running linux and then copy the whole shebang to your iBook. 
#4
03/10/2005 (10:52 am)
Ah. I see the problem. I was in lala land and didn't think about the binary installer. You should have CVS access, which I believe is at to 1.3 as the HEAD.
#5
So, has anyone else tried to compile on ppc linux?
03/16/2005 (1:21 pm)
Not having much luck with it. I was able to check out from cvs, but couldn't compile. So I tried changing some things in the makefiles, and still had no luck. Upon trying to cvs up to replace my changes I discovered that I have only enough bandwidth per day to do a checkout... So that pretty much stopped me from continuing to mess with it for that day.So, has anyone else tried to compile on ppc linux?
#6
03/16/2005 (1:47 pm)
Someone asked in the forums for this before (search for yellowdog linux). If you want to run TGE under PPC linux, you'll probably have to kludge together a makefile and a dir/file structure that's a combo of the current Mac and Linux ones. 
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