Anyone manage to compile the Quake 3 source code?

If so, how?

I have done a

find lcc/src | xargs fromdos (as suggested on slashdot)

Then when I go to compile I get this;

paul@nephilim:~/q3a/quake3-1.32b/code/unix$ ./cons
: No such file or directory

No such file or directory? What's the supposed to mean? What is it not finding?

Same here.........

I haven't been able to download it yet .

up you go!

Originally posted by Nylex I haven't been able to download it yet .

ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/id...32b-source.zip

Anyone?

not that I condone reading on the site I am about to mention...

but... There is step by step instructions posted on slashdot under the topic about the code being released.

Originally posted by trey85stang not that I condone reading on the site I am about to mention... but... There is step by step instructions posted on slashdot under the topic about the code being released.

Slashdot is my only news source



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The source compiles and runs fine.

Make sure you unpack the zip file with unzip -a otherwise the cons perl file will bail when you run it.

Adjust code/Construct file to suit your system for release/debug or SMP builds

build it with following command run from the code directory

./unix/cons -- gcc=gcc g++=g++

note, the build failed with gcc-3.4.1 but built cleanly with gcc-3.3.4

the code/install directory contains the binaries.

HTH

Mad.

Make sure you unpack the zip file with unzip -a otherwise the cons perl file will bail when you run it.

Thanks for that!

What is it:

 
kornerr@darkstar:/home/other/apps/quake3-1.32b/code/install$ ./linuxquake3
Q3 1.32b linux-i386 Aug 28 2005
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/kornerr/.q3a/baseq3
/home/other/apps/quake3-1.32b/code/install/baseq3
./linuxquake3/baseq3

----------------------
0 files in pk3 files

Running in restricted demo mode.

----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/kornerr/.q3a/demota
/home/other/apps/quake3-1.32b/code/install/demota
./linuxquake3/demota

----------------------
0 files in pk3 files
----- CL_Shutdown -----
-----------------------
----- CL_Shutdown -----
-----------------------
Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg
linuxquake3: debug-x86-Linux-2.3/core/client/unix/unix_main.c:333: Sys_Exit: Assertion `ex == 0' failed.
Aborted

I haven't modified code/Construct ...
What should I modify?

Thanks.

You need the pk3 files from the point release and from the quake3 cd.

You can get the point release here (you may need to hold down the shift key when clicking the link)

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/qua....32b-3.x86.run

to unpack this file, make it executeable and create a temp directory to untar it.

chmod +x linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run
mkdir q3tmp; cd q3tmp
../linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run --tar xvf

copy all the .pk3 files from the q3tmp/baseq3 directory to the code/install/baseq3 dir in the source directory tree, finally copy pak0.pk3 from the quake3 cd to the baseq3.

HTH

Mad.

Thanks, madluther.
Will try it when get quake3 pk3s

what will happen after a successful compilation ?
i mean what file will comeup in front of u and what can that file do when the compilation is sucees ?

You'll be able to play Q3 under Linux, surely (edit: assuming of course the graphics drivers are there and stuff)..

what are the pk3 files?? and what license do they use??

Originally posted by madluther finally copy pak0.pk3 from the quake3 cd to the baseq3.

but what about those of us that don't have the quake 3 cd??

BTW, just curious: has anyone put together a quake 3 linux binary package?? and will we start to see some linux distros include quake 3 in their package repositories??

i get this when trying to compile the q3source on an x86_64 machine, dual core 3800 cpu.

debug-x86-Linux-2.5/Q3/game/game/g_main.c: In function 'vmMain':
debug-x86-Linux-2.5/Q3/game/game/g_main.c:212: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
cons: *** [debug-x86-Linux-2.5/Q3/game/game/g_main.o] Error 1
cons: errors constructing debug-x86-Linux-2.5/Q3/game/game/g_main.o

i'm very certain this is a 64bit-only problem.