Sven Co-op v5 support

[APGRoboCop]

No big issue but I believe Sven v5 had their /dlls renamed from hl.dll and hi_i386.so as server.so and server.dll for MM-P to work. I only managed to allow P-37 to work by renaming those newly named dlls back to its original name.

Vanheer and some other HLDS coders used your MM-P src code but made a bad job as they lag more than your official version.

However now that Sven v5 is a Standalone version, it maybe likely that it could break the support for Metamod in the future.

[Frisasky]

hmm if u using mmp on sc5,you can using this version which modified for sc5 https://github.com/jonnyboy0719/MetaMod-P/tree/unstable i'd recommend @jkivilin merge changes made by jonny to official version

[jkivilin]

Unfortunately, I cannot easily merge from jonnyboy0719 as that is repository is not based on common git history.

[jkivilin]

If someone makes the effort to extract needed changes on top jkivilin/metamod-p git tree and send pull request, I'll happily review and merge that.

[APGRoboCop]

Well I'm no C++ pro but I will be sure to test those on my Sven Linux servers. I may have to use -debug mode with the GNU DeBug or GDB on my Linux CMD shell to find key clues if anything crashes - if anyone makes those changes.

If anyone is adventurous to test or run Sven with Metamod on their server, it be best to use this in Linux CMD shell along where you put in the startup:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=".:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" gdb ./hlds_linux

But don't type the "./svenrun -ip xx.xx.xx.xx...etc" like you manually use to start but type as "run -ip xx.xx.xx.xx...etc_". If the server crashes then you can type "bt" to analyse which binaries and dependencies were involved in the crash...if I am not mistaken.

I'm no Windows Server fan as I don't know how to use other debug tools for Sven Win32.

[jkivilin]

I made new release that has Frisasky's changes from jonnyboy0719 branch. It's here: https://github.com/jkivilin/metamod-p/releases/tag/1.21p38_beta1

Note: this is completely untested build.

[Frisasky]

sven coop have go standalone and add some engine function did not exist in official goldsrc engine, i didnt pull these changes because the potential of broken MMP on other games time to create sc5 branch? @jkivilin check out this commit, which add sven coop speicified engine call https://github.com/jonnyboy0719/MetaMod-P/commit/9e14aaf4545358ece466853fb13590d56113d684

[APGRoboCop]

No biggie but it looks like your vers_meta.h requires an update for p38_beta1 as "meta version" from my rcon console shows as p37 - despite that it was recompiled recently.

23:52:35 meta version
23:52:35 Metamod v1.21p37  2013/05/30 (5:13)
         by Will Day
            http://www.metamod.org/
          Patch: Metamod-P (mm-p) v37
          by Jussi Kivilinna
             http://metamod-p.sourceforge.net/
         compiled: Jun 13 2017, 23:20:55 EET (optimized)

[jkivilin]

Yes, that's me being lazy ;)

[APGRoboCop]

Also for those who cannot load this Metamod-P38 beta build on Linux due to failing to load _hli386.so from /svencoop/dlls folder, you can simply type in that existing folder from CMD Terminal by using:

$ ln -s server.so hl_i386.so

Sven Coop dev team recommends NOT to rename server.so as _hli386.so for a sensible reason.

[R4to0]

Instead of symlinking, you can set "gamedll dlls/server.so" in config.ini or use "+localinfo mm_gamedll dlls/server.so" within your startup parameter. The auto-detection worked fine for me.

Anyway, @jkivilin correct if I'm wrong but I believe the Metamod hlsdk headers (mainly eiface.h) are outdated compared to 2013 goldsrc Valve's eiface.h.

Valve's eiface.h: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/blob/master/engine/eiface.h#L292

Metamod-p eiface.h https://github.com/jkivilin/metamod-p/blob/master/hlsdk/engine/eiface.h#L304

I don't know if that can cause issues or crashes as it seems works fine with old names, but Sven Co-op is based on 2013+ goldsrc update with those renamed functions.

[jkivilin]

No issue with function pointer names, as those do not end up in to the compiled binary. What is important, is that used types (void, int *, char **, etc) match.

[Scr34mik]

Launching sven-coop server with https://github.com/jkivilin/metamod-p/releases/tag/1.21p38_beta1 causes it to instantly crash on startup.

[APGRoboCop]

Could you be more specific and got any crash logs or any clues linking to the source of the crash?

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[Manapo74]

Hello, please can you create this metamod for Dedicated Windows?

[Frisasky]

if you're going to run svencoop, using this https://github.com/jonnyboy0719/MetaMod-P/releases/tag/2.0.0

[Manapo74]

For Dedicated Windows metamod unstable, on the map hl_с03 ping server drops to 5-7

[jkivilin]

Closing, this issue was about adding svencoop v5 support, now it has become dumpster of crash reports.