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105 lines
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I hate having to have a set of notes/instructions that's longer than
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the SlackBuild is, but this stuff is important...
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Stratagus
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The version number of wargus needs to match the version number of your
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installed stratagus package. In practice this won't be a problem if
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you use SlackBuilds.org for both (because both will get updated at the
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same time).
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Upgrade Notes
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The dependencies for in-game music have changed. wargus 2.2.x
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used TiMidity++ and eawpats. Starting with 2.3.0, fluidsynth and
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fluid-soundfont are used instead.
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If you're upgrading from a previous version of wargus, you may have
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to delete your old preferences directory:
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rm -rf ~/.stratagus/wc2
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Slackware Note
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When creating a package, you'll see errors like:
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WARNING: gzip test failed on usr/share/games/stratagus/wargus/music/Orc Defeat.ogg.gz
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These are harmless, and caused by makepkg's gzip test not being able to
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handle filenames with spaces in them. There's a thread on linuxquestions
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about makepkg's problems with spaces in filenames:
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/bug-in-makepkg-and-symlinks-with-blanks-in-filename-4175480597/
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The general consensus seems to be, changing makepkg isn't going to happen.
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SlackBuilds.org Note
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In the .info file, stratagus, ffmpeg2theora, fluidsynth, and
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fluid-soundfont are listed as requirements. ffmpeg2theora is only required
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at build time; the others required at runtime (matters if you're deploying
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on a host other than the build host).
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Game Data
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By itself, wargus isn't a playable game. It needs the data from the
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original Warcraft II game.
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You need the original Warcraft II for DOS or the Beyond the Dark Portal
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expansion pack to extract the game data files. Battle.net edition doesn't
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work. This can be either a CD-ROM, ISO image, installed game directory
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(e.g. on your Windows C: drive), or a zip/rar/7z/tar archive of any
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of the above.
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You can choose to either build a package that includes the game data, or
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add the game data separately after package installation. If you include
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the data in your package, you MAY NOT redistribute your package.
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To build a package with the data:
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Whatever form you have the game in, set the environment
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variable GAMEDATA to point to it:
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export GAMEDATA=/dev/cdrom # original CD
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export GAMEDATA=~/oldgames/warcraft2.rar # archive of your old install
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export GAMEDATA=~/dosbox/war2 # installed copy
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export GAMEDATA=/tmp/warcraft2.iso # image of CD
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...then run ./wargus.SlackBuild
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If GAMEDATA isn't set, or if the extraction process fails, your wargus
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package won't include the game data. You'll be unable to play the game
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until you've extracted the data yourself.
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Note that the data extraction process ignores many possible errors. If
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the game doesn't seem to work correctly, it's possible your install of
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Warcraft II is corrupted.
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If you build a package without the data:
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The extraction script used by the SlackBuild is installed as
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/usr/bin/extract-warcraft2 (run with no arguments for usage) and can
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be run any time without reinstalling the wargus package. If you do
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this, and later decide to remove wargus, you'll have to manually rm -rf
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/usr/share/games/stratagus/wargus after package removal.
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For game data extraction to work, you will need:
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- ffmpeg2theora
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- if you're extracting from a 7zip or rar archive, you'll need p7zip
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or unrar.
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Extraction takes a while, depending on your CPU speed. It renders all the
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game's MIDI music as wav files, transcodes those to .ogg, then transcodes
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all the game's videos to ogg theora.
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extract-warcraft2 is a wrapper for wartool, supplied with wargus. See
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the wartool man page for more information.
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