Downloading and compiling Tremulous source on Linux

[IOA]

Hello, I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, but I'm totally stuck on the msys.bat step. How do you run a bat file on Linux?

[David]

Your asking in the mac thread about how to do the windows instructions on linux?
And to answer your question, you can run bat files under wine, but I assume your asking the wrong question.

[IOA]

Where else was I supposed to look? Mac Architecture is very similar to Linux's, and there was a step that involved a .bat file.

Also, wine did not work.

~EDIT~

Hey wait a second...this isn't the same place I was looking...I think I just posted in the wrong thread >_<. Sorry, my bad.

But while I'm being heard here, I originally wanted to create my own QVM for a server. I figured that I needed to do the whole SVN thing, but I dunno, I think I might have gotten on to the wrong start. Can someone help me?

[Rocinante]

There, split and fixed topic.

The whole SVN thing.. depends on what you're doing.  And if you pulled down the current $HEAD or whatever version matches the QVM backport you want to use.  There's quite a few options and issues, so a good start is to go over what you want to achieve and what you've done so far.  Though I can definitely say that msys.bat has nothing to do with it :>

[IOA]

Thanks for the split .

Also, I haven't done anything so far, lol. I want to know first off what QVMs I need to edit, how I need to get them, and if I need to hex edit them or anything. It's just that I've been seeing a lot of modded QVMs hosted on some servers and wanted to try my hand at it. Unlike others, I'm willing to do it on my own as long as I have some sort of sense of direction, which is what I'm looking for now.

Thanks in advance.

[Rocinante]

If you were to hex edit a QVM and make it work, I think you would instantly surpass most of the mod creators :>

Best thing to do is probably to grab a mod patch - find a mod that mostly fits what you want, get the patches needed to create it.  From those you should also get what version of the source was used to generate the patch, so you can use subversion to download that version of the source.  Apply the patch to the source, and at that point if you were to compile it you'd have the exact mod that you got the source for.  Now you can edit to your heart's content; change things around, see what breaks, etc.  Build the QVM, load it up in devmap in your client and see how it works for you.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

I would go into more specifics about the process, but I'm running on about three hours of sleep right now and if any of the above makes sense at all I'll be surprised.  Instead, I'll point you at what is probably the most used QVM out there, Lakitu7's.  Combine that with some of the threads that already exist about compiling Tremulous and you should be on your way.  'man' pages are always your friend if you get lost, as are Google, and if it's specific to Tremulous itself then of course here as well.