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Repository for the Knossos.NET launcher, currently in development.
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Support running Fred2 on Linux using Wine #184

Closed Shivansps closed 1 month ago

Shivansps commented 1 month ago

Support downloading and running Fred2 on Linux using Wine

-No default install, if someone wants to install Fred2 on Linux needs to "Modify" the FSO build and install the Windows Package. -Arch limitation, Knet on linux will only consider executables of the same CPU arch as valid, that means, in X64 Linux, you cant download or run 32 bit Fred2.

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JohnAFernandez commented 1 month ago

I honestly don't know what I'm looking at. Based on BMagnu's approval and testing already done, I think we should merge this PR and release to wider testing.

topas-rec commented 2 weeks ago

I wanna leave a big thanks to you all for doing this. Having a separate wine prefix in .config/KnossosNET/wine is also fine in comparison to my suggestion to have a configurable wine prefix path. Having the command line switches added for the selected mod in Knossos to the FRED2 launch is awesome. This way the used folders of the mod are found correctly in FRED2. I thought I have to manually do something here, which I now don't have to.

I honestly don't know what I'm looking at. Based on BMagnu's approval and testing already done, I think we should merge this PR and release to wider testing.

Works here!

An enhancement could be to guide Linux users to download the Windows build to get FRED2. This is not intuitive - but I already know it so no problem for me.
Currently Linux users are just prompted with something like : THe executable for Fred2 wasn't found. I suggest to add something like "Please download a windows engine build".

But my intention to come here was to say thanks.