The Battle for Wesnoth Forums

Stuff like freebasic is no slouch, graphic wise it should be able to handle old school games like Wesnoth adequately. Perhaps freebasic can handle 2D graphics provided there's a good quality, high performance 2D graphics library(which is likely implemented in C/C++), but it won't handle WML for sure.

Panda_ wrote:What's the method you use to build executables for Windows, linux and mac (32/64) ?

gcc driven by various cross-platform build systems or IDE project files.

IIRC it was fixed in 31296 so you should svn up.

Which SVN revision do you use? There were segfault bugs caused by new custom allocator. They were fixed since then.

Wesnoth requires boost compiled with gzip support. Your boost isn't. Though I have no idea why. Boost's build system should enable it by default on POSIX platforms and I don't see any reason why BSD's port would disable it.

Dave wrote: I don't know of any other option that allows development of cross-platform games easily. I'd be interested in hearing about alternative technologies.

Allegro. I'd be interested in hearing why you didn't hear about it considering that Wesnoth and Allegro share a developer(allefant)

Panda_ wrote: (Java isn't better, but you can build things quicker)

That is not generally true. Depends on nature of your project and libraries you'll be using.
EDIT: Oops! Thought you're referring to coding speed, not compilation speed.
My point covers "should have less to write" part.

Boucman wrote:mainly because the lead developer is a C++ expert.

AFAIK the project's founder is a Java expert too

Panda_ wrote: Why did you choose SDL?
I know it's free. But when i used it, i had the feeling it wasn't a good library (awful approach, limited possibilities, and it's really old).

Perhaps you can suggest an alternative?

Try using intl.dll from the windows release.

What a coincidence! I was making an 1.5.6 ebuild myself. It's based on Gentoo's 1.4.6 ebuild but reflects newly added dependencies(SDL_ttf, pango) and uses scons instead of autotools.

I managed to return python AIs to the list of AIs in MP dialog(that changes are in 1.5.6) but if they're actually selected, log messages with --log-debug=ai suggest that formula ai is used instead.

In directory where wesnoth is installed \userdata\saves

Probably all three will be available so you could choose what suits you best

valdar wrote:is there a discussion topic or wiki page on Building system switch decision.

I'm not aware of any.

It's only to be ready to cmake or scons

Or autotools since SkeletonCrew seems to be willing to maintain it