Game compiling challenge

this game doesn't have a good graphics but I'm keep coming back to it, it seems interesting.
this game only have a source code and a dependencies hell I didn't ever manage to compile it.
therefor I will try it again (with my clean feisty installation) after you do it and tell me how.

this game should run on Linux.

here are the links :

download :  from : localhost/sourceforge.net/projects/kralovstvi/
homepage :  from : localhost/kralovstvi.sourceforge.net/
dependencies :  from : localhost/sourceforge.net/forum/forum.p...orum_id=329816

what I'm asking for you is to give me an exact CLI commands so I can compile it and install all dependencies as well.

I remind you that I use  Feisty.

Thanks.

and if you find a .deb or a .package or anything else for easier installation let me know

I get stuck at trying to find tcl im afraid.

Have tcl8.4-dev installed... hmm willl keep trying for you!

Originally Posted by christhemonkeyI get stuck at trying to find tcl im afraid.

Have tcl8.4-dev installed... hmm willl keep trying for you!

any news yet ?

Not yet....

so who else if up for the challenge ?

I got past the tcl requirement:
sudo ln -s  /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so /usr/lib/libtcl.so
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/include/tcl8.4/
and changing
vi ./8Kingdoms-1.0.0/common/TCL/tcl_script.h
row 11 from
#include lt;tcl.hgt; to
#include quot;/usr/include/tcl8.4/tcl.hquot;

./configure amp;amp; make
results in:
ai/PathFind/pathfindtransciever.cpp:25: fel: quot

ATHFIND_MSG_HANDLERquot; not declared in scope

I managed to get it to build, they have made global function definitions below the class definitions
so the g++ compiler could not find the function in the current scope, i had to move all global functions to the top of the file, within the namespace ofcource, in the following files:

pathfindertranceiever.cpp
strategytranceiver.cpp
diplomacytranceiver.cpp
mapanalyzertranceiver.cpp.

I have generated a deb file using checkinstall and uploaded it th rapidshare.de. I give no guarantees that it works though (no dependencies set in the deb file)
Download 8kingdoms_1.0.0-1_i386.deb here

Hi,

I have just googled this forum...

NickeM: You are right, there was a problem with the namespaces. We fixed it few days ago, but it is still only in the CVS repository and not in the released source code. Would you mind if I add the package you have created to the download section at SF.net ?
I guess many people will appreciate the package...

Regards,
Vta

I don't think putting the checkinstall-generated deb file on a public web page is a good idea. If I understand how checkinstall works (and from what NickeM said), it doesn't check for dependencies. This means people will download and install the deb, but then when they try to run it, there is a chance it won't work (because they don't have tcl, or they don't have some other library). Then the developers will start getting questions about why it doesn't work...

If I knew more about creating proper deb files, I'd give it a shot, but the closest I've come to that is using epm to package a simple python program. (See this thread.)

I have made a new proper debian package with dependencies setup, plus a more verbose description of the game.

@Vtaxy, feel free to use the deb file as you wish

Klick here, 8kingdoms_1.0.0-2_i386.deb