[Portrequest] Zodengine

[thatgui]

I did a portrequest for this a while ago in the old gp32x Forum.


slaeshjag was kind enough to provide a compiled binary for the pandora. As I did not have my pandora back then I couldn't test ist, and so I forgot about it.


Yesterday I rembered it, tried it, and it works ! ... sort of. I got to get on the first map, but I could not command my units.


To give commands the right mouse button is needed, and it's handling seems to be a little borked:


- using the nubs to move the mouse works, left klick with the right nub works, right click doesn't seem to be "fully" recognized. if I make a right click, it seems to recognize it (a dotted line is drawn to the point I clicked on), but the command isn't executed


- using the stylus works spot on, but how to simulate the right mouse click ?


So maybe someone is kind enough to provide a build from the latest available Version (and is also looking in the control issue) ? It seems to be a straight forward build - at least slaeshjag did not mentionend any build related problems.


It needs a small amount of fiddling to get it running, I'm willing to provide a small tutorial if someone asks for it


Small, hurried HowTo

• grab Streaks build here
  
• Next you will need the game data files, there a two ways to get it (but I have only tested the windows option!)
  

option a

• grab the latest windows build here and install it
  

option b

• grab the latest linux build here and extract it
  

now

• create a directory on your sd e.g. "zodengine"
  
• extract Streaks build in here - one file "zod" should now be in the directory
  
• goto the install or extraction directory of zodengine
  
• copy the complete "assets" directory in your "zodengine" directory
  
• also copy the files "default_settings.txt", "map_list.txt" and every file that contains the extension ".map" from the root folder of your installation/extraction into the "zodengine" directory.
  
• if you haven't done this already, copy the directory anywhere you wont on your card.
  
• boot up the and open a terminal
  
• change into your "zodengine" directory on your card e.g.: "cd /medi/mmcblk0p1/zodengine"
  
• zod engine has a plethora of command line parameters. Its best to use the zod launcher (supplied with the windows installer/linux archive), to get one, that you like best. Best choose a local game for testing (I don't know if it is still possible to connect to the nighsoft server) and a resolution of 800x480. a sample parameter list could look like this "-l map_list.txt -n zlover -t blue -r 800x480 -b red"
  
• now type "./zod %insertcommandlineargumentshere%" into the terminal and hit enter (example: "./zod -l map_list.txt -n zlover -t blue -r 800x480 -b red")
  
• the loading screen should come up very fast, but after that it takes a while till the game loads
  

I had not much time for testing, but the game seem to work fine (haven't tested sound/music yet).

 

[StreaK]

I'll do it..


edit:


here you go [only biniary, no datafiles, no pnd]:


http://ompldr.org/vY2NsMw/zod.7z


please test it, and provide info how it works.

 

[thatgui]

Thanks a lot for trying, but unfortunatly when i try to start it i get:

error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

[StreaK]

hold on..


edit:


http://ompldr.org/vY2NsYg/lib1.7z

 

[thatgui]

any hint on that one ?:


i tried to put the so into /usr/lib/mysql (i had to create the mysql dir) with no effect. is there a environment variable if have to set ?

 

[StreaK]

create on your sd card:


zod--- zod [binary]


.....|--- lib


.............|--- libmysql[].so.14


and add in zod dir script "run.sh"

#!/bin/sh

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=HOME="$PWD/lib"

export HOME="$PWD"

./zod $@

 

[thatgui]

maybe we could avoid the mysql problem ?


if found this in the zodengine Forum


But I don't know if this will "cripple" the port


Edit: will try your suggestion

 

[thatgui]

unfortunatly I'm not very into bash scripting. I tried what you suggested, but when I execute the script I get the error "can't open" but I don't know what he is missing. The script is in the same directory as the zod binary.

 

[StreaK]

unfortunatly I'm not very into bash scripting. I tried what you suggested, but when I execute the script I get the error "can't open" but I don't know what he is missing. The script is in the same directory as the zod binary.

my fault:

./zod $@


instead of


zod $@

--ZOD

    |-----zod [file]

    |-----run.sh [file]

    |-----lib [dir]

            |----------libmysql*.so.14

 

[thatgui]

i already corrected that, with no effect. but i can still start the executable with ./zod (with the known lib error of course) directly from the terminal

 

[StreaK]

yeah, another error


replace with that:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/lib"

and should work

 

[thatgui]

still no success


this is how the run.sh file looks like

#!/bin/sh


export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/lib"


export HOME="$PWD"


./zod $@

 

[StreaK]

still no success


this is how the run.sh file looks like

#!/bin/sh


export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/lib"


export HOME="$PWD"


./zod $@

what output error You;re getting?

 

[thatgui]

terminal output after "./run.sh"

/bin/sh: can't open

 

[StreaK]

/bin/bash then?

 

[thatgui]

you don't wan't to hear this

: No such file or directory

but there is both "sh" and "bash" in the bin dir :blink:


script file:

#!/bin/bash


export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/lib"


export HOME="$PWD"


./zod $@

 

[StreaK]

no freakin idea what's wrong then..


#!/bin/sh


should work too..


edit:


type straight in terminal [in zod dir]:


export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/lib"


export HOME="$PWD"


and then


./zod

 

[thatgui]

this gives me (after executing "./zod")

./zod: /media/mmcblk0p1/zodengine/lib/libmysqlclient.so.14: version 'libmysqlclient_14' not found (required by ./zod)

 

[StreaK]

so we reached deadend... try maybe mix libs from slaesh build


i wonder why mysql is used anyway.. strange..

 

[thatgui]

sleashjag didn't provide any additional libs - maybe mysql wasn't included back then. But removing the need for mysql does not seem to be very hard "-DDISABLE_MYSQL". Maybe we could try that, if you still got some nerves for it left.


nevertheless thanks for your support