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works! which is a blessing as I don’t need to suffer windows to build projects
I had tried it with a mojo sample but that didn’t seem to completely work when the resultant exe was run with wine… but that might have been with the previous mx2 version
anyhoo I tried again but this time with an SDL window just using “raw” GLES and not only does the compiled exe work with wine but after emailing it to a friend it seem to work on windows too (you never know) curiously no sdl dll required?
It would be a real luxury if ted2 could make exe’s on Linux too, but its not a terrible chore to run wine with windows version… (there does seem to be a path issue when trying to compile a mod with the mx2cc exe in the Linux version of mx2)
Just thought ppl might find it interesting or might have just assumed it wouldn’t work…
By design it’s impossible to do that, however there are clever workarounds. Wine is such clever workaround. I don’t know if there’s other alternative.
The most standard one is going for the “automated builds” (you would write a Python script to execute shell commands). Once you run various virtual machines and let them do daily builds you might suffer less from manual effort.
Just happy the windows version of ted makes working windows exe’s with wine !
It would be a real luxury if ted2 could make exe’s on Linux too
It should be possible to use the mingw64w cross-compiler, but there could be a few caveats.
- The cross-compiler chosen has to be able to compile the generated C++, so it has to support any C++11 features Mark has implemented. This is tricky on Linux as each distribution and their release will use a version of GCC that they consider to be stable at the time of release. Installing a different one requires a bit of work.
- You will need to ensure that you have compatible Windows versions of any external dynamic link library built and setup in the search path.
- Both mx2cc and Ted2 will need to be modified. mx2cc will have to be tricked as it were, into believing that it was compiling in a Windows environment. Ted would just need a few addition menu items to pass a cross-compile switch to mx2cc.
- You will need WINE installed to test out cross compiled application, but the WINE configuration files will need to be manually tweaked to stop issues where key run-time dynamic link libraries cannot be found.
As an example check out https://github.com/dawlane/dawlane-monkeyx-custom
Note that you will have to build the MonkeyX stuff from scratch.
@dawlane, nah you just compile using wine and the mingw compiler included with the windows version of mx2 – simples…
in fact if I can be bothered I could probably nail together a Makefile that could do it
[/crayon]1[crayon-5cba84406af5f923415142 inline="true" ]make windows SRC=AAAgame.monkey2[/crayon]1[crayon-5cba84406af65645153809 inline="true" ]make linux SRC=AAAgame.monkey2and so on…
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