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Barony Open Source Release
http://www.baronygame.com/
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No install target for NetBSD #39

Open Adrien2002 opened 7 years ago

Adrien2002 commented 7 years ago

Hello, I'm on NetBSD and I built Barony well but I can't "make install" it because there is lack of install() entries in CMakeLists.txt about NetBSD

===> Installing for Barony-v2.0.4 make: don't know how to make install. Stop

addictgamer commented 7 years ago

There are no install targets for any platform (except OSX) because we don't use make install. I don't remember what the install target we do have in there is for. I think it was once involved in the OSX .app building process.

I'm not sure what an appropriate install target would even look like. A user would need to either copy the game's assets out of their Steam or non-Steam (GOG, Humble, IGS, etc) install or copy their binaries into one of said installs. I am open to any contributions for this.

Adrien2002 commented 7 years ago

That's what I did, I can't make install but I can make so I do have the NetBSD binary of the game and I copied the files from my GOG version to be able to play it. I just wanted to make a package of the engine in our pkgsrc.

But the idea of the package is to, for example, put Barony binary into $PREFIX/bin and put all the files into $PREFIX/share/barony/files and the executable will know that distfiles with the game are in a specified path like $PREFIX/share/barony/files

That path can be specified in CMake with -DBARONY_FILES:PATH=$PREFIX/share/barony/files and executable of barony will search this path then users will put manually files in there. A "MESSAGE" file into the pkgsrc package will indicate where to put the files to be able to run the game.

addictgamer commented 7 years ago

If you know how to write the install target for NetBSD, could you submit a pull request? Otherwise, seeing as *BSD is not one of our officially supported platforms, I'm going to leave this for a BSD user to tackle.