Hello

I've put together a Daimonin binary installer for Linux using autopackage, it should be able to install on different flavours of Linux on x86 as a regular user in their home directory.
I have tested it on recent Gentoo and Ubuntu 8.04.3 to install and play Daimonin.

EDIT: Changed download link
http://sourceforge.net/projects/daimonin/files/Client%20Binaries/Linux%20Client%200.9.7.1/daimonin-client-0.9.7.1.x86.package/download

sha256sum
4d34245eb314fbb20e3aae60ced1e05ff9269a302b1b651223a6c927b91e2865  daimonin-client-0.9.7.1.x86.package

If you want to install an autopackage, follow instructions here http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/ , if it doesn't work you may need to install some other packages from your Linux distribution beforehand, it should give you some hints of what to do after you run it, if anything else is needed.

I have modified again the Linux Makefile.am and configure.in to support this autopackage build and added an autopackage directory in daimonin/client/make/linux, I can make diffs if there is any interest in it.
Packages are compiled with -O2 -march=i586 -fomit-frame-pointer flags of gcc so they should run optimised for Pentium class CPU or better, the source is the official Daimonin 0.9.7.1 zip with only small patches required for autopackage to work. It includes a dynamic linked physfs library that is installed in home if not found as well. Other packages like sdl are not included, it is assumed that most other common libraries can be installed from the distribution. There are going to be problems with this so please let me know.

I know a few Linux users have trouble compiling applications (not only Daimonin) and thought maybe this would help them getting Daimonin installed on the platform without messing around with gcc and all.
Maybe Daimonin could even be listed officially on the autopackage or zero install repository, spreading the word more.
Please tell me what you think.

Best regards

Yeah, just what TPK says about maintaining it. That aside, great stuff!

Well, if you are willing to package new releases, just say and we can add you to the devteam, give you svn commit access, etc.

If you don't intend any sort of continued maintenance, thanks very much anyway. I (or someone else) will put your 0971 package on our download page. Please post a tar.gz of the modified Makefil, etc. to the dev mailing list or here so we can update SVN (don't bother wiith diffs -- it's easier just to have the entire file).

LOL, its not the first time smacky nor I have been smited.

On a side note: i agree that the Physfs package is a pain in the behind.  This package is the sole reason why i can not get daimonin to run on OS X.  For some reason Physfs and daimonin and OS X don't like to play nice... if at all?

Perhaps Physfs (is it open source?) should be an actual code piece of Daimonin, and not a separate package.  This might solve some issues with having specific requires.  Just a thought.

On the other side, i'd definitely also welcome a dev member that is willing to maintain Linux packages for us.

Yeah, thats one thing we have to deal with: On windows and MacOS it is common to include libs like physfs to the package.

Under linux, you have to install the package.

Thats not easy to counter, because under different unix system the way physfs is compiled and implemented is different. Have in mind it use low level libs on that systems. Because that it can even be, that some unix system have to patch the lib first. And so on.

Under windows on the other hand, there is no system to find an installed lib easily. Except its added to /system and added to registry. But thats also not easy, most libs don't do it... and so on.

So, there is no way to escape: For windows we deliver pre-compiled dlls, for mac their lib format and for linux a install list.

The best way of course is, to grap from a lib what we need, rip the code off and add it native to our code. Possible when it comes to open source and we did it for example for Xdelta, which we use in our auto-updater. For a small lib the best way, for physfs critical, for other libs (we have to face this problem on a much bigger scale for the 3D client) simply impossible,

To have an install system is fine, i played around in the past with the installer done by Loki (the guys who did SDL too), but found that system to raw and complicate.

I will check that stuff out when i have time but generally i am very positive to it.
We should make our mind how to use it in future.

Anyway, i still look for a way to make our auto-updater work on linux on the same level as for windows. That means to update also the binary or at last to update the installed sources and auto-compile a new binary.

Thanks for testing, I have a 0.10.0 package built now.
I know it probably would be desirable to have 2 clients installed at the same time as I think they are not network compatible, please correct me if I'm wrong. Are the user settings for the client compatible in ~/.daimonin? Even if they are, would it make sense to have different settings for stable and devel client? Quick looking at code and seems easy patch in main.c to name them with ~/.daimonin-$VERSION if they are not, allowing both to be installed without conflict. What are your thoughts?

I see now, thanks for the hints, I have to peruse a lot more of the code.

I notice that the package is in the downloads, can this be linked on the autopackage.org package directory? If so, there needs to be a rootname maintained there and will look into what needs to be done to list it. I do know that they ask for 2 email addresses for maintainer and packager then a password gets sent to both emails.

PS. I created a sourceforge account gavinlee303

Cheers

hey i tried out your auto-package program and everything when smoothly and daimonin installed fine(there is an daimonin icon on my games tab under apps) however, when i try to start the daimonin client, nothing happens. it starts loading then nothing happens...can you help?

Hm, I've just installed on my laptop running Ubuntu 9.04 and have the same problem as justin -- installs fine but does not run (it says Starting Daimonin Client on the taskbar but gives up after about 5 seconds).

There is no~/.local/bin/ even. I've got a ~/.local/share/ with various subdirs, but no daimonin.

OK, it's in /usr/opt/daimonin-0.9.7.1 andthe problem is my laptop is 64bit (always forget that) and the supplied PhysFS is 32bit I guess:
julian@julian-laptop:~$ daimonin
/usr/opt/daimonin-0.9.7.1/daimonin: error while loading shared libraries: libphysfs-1.0.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

What's the workaround?