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fgsfdsfgs / perfect_dark

work in progress port of n64decomp/perfect_dark to modern platforms
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Suggestion make it work without 32 bit libraries. #463

Closed FrostKnight closed 3 months ago

FrostKnight commented 3 months ago

Also, I don't know what specific dependencies are needed, but I would love to be able to use it with as few dependencies as possible.

I currently use sndio and xenocara. I use a chimaera of a linux distro. Just a heads up. But yeah, I have much interest in this.

fgsfdsfgs commented 3 months ago

This is not that easy. The game currently cannot be built for 64-bit targets, so the 32-bit libraries are necessary. There are a couple other issues about 64-bit support, so I'll close this one. When that is implemented this problem will automatically go away.

FrostKnight commented 3 months ago

This is not that easy. The game currently cannot be built for 64-bit targets, so the 32-bit libraries are necessary. There are a couple other issues about 64-bit support, so I'll close this one. When that is implemented this problem will automatically go away.

So Basically, when you think its possible to do so, without insane amounts of work you will reconsider?

I am just trying to understand the context between what you said from This is not easy, to When that is implemented this problem will automatically go away.

I just want to understand for this reason. Let me know.

megatog615 commented 3 months ago

Essentially the game needs to be ported to 64-bit.

FrostKnight commented 3 months ago

Essentially the game needs to be ported to 64-bit.

Is that even possible?

Btw, I assume it would be too much work to have the multilib libaries added to this program directly . You know, so you wouldn't need to get any 32 bit libraries externally.

Btw, who is it who ported it to 32 bit? Just curious.

fgsfdsfgs commented 3 months ago

Yes, it is possible. It requires quite a lot of work. The game was already "32-bit". This means it assumes things like address/pointer sizes being 32-bit in a lot of places, which is the crux of the problem. When I was porting it to PC I did not fix this because I wanted to get it to work first. You can't really "add" libraries to the Linux builds. Every Linux distro under the sun has different packages and library versions. Things like Flatpak and AppImage are supposed to deal with this, but the PR for Flatpak (#165) seems to have been abandoned.

FrostKnight commented 3 months ago

Yes, it is possible. It requires quite a lot of work. The game was already "32-bit". This means it assumes things like address/pointer sizes being 32-bit in a lot of places, which is the crux of the problem. When I was porting it to PC I did not fix this because I wanted to get it to work first. You can't really "add" libraries to the Linux builds. Every Linux distro under the sun has different packages and library versions. Things like Flatpak and AppImage are supposed to deal with this, but the PR for Flatpak (#165) seems to have been abandoned.

So if you got it to work, would you consider porting it to 64 bit? Or was that something you thought about before but changed your mind on.

I didn't realize you couldn't add libraries to linux builds. My bad...

fgsfdsfgs commented 3 months ago

Yes, 64-bit support is planned.

FrostKnight commented 3 months ago

Yes, 64-bit support is planned.

Alrighty, that's all I needed to know. Thanks