Compiling OpenRA on Ubuntu

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First off, grab the source with Git:

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ignore this

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Well i tworked, I had to Go to System -> Preferences -> Appearances -> Visual Effects -> None to get i tto work and i'm using ubuntu 10.10

just as an update, tey are no longer using /chrisforbes/ the new git is:

git clone git://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA.git

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I was unable to build on anything but the latest version of Ubuntu 10.10.

Also the gacutil script is out of date. What worked for me was to manually register every dll in the third party folder.

And mono-devel should be added to the compile dependency list.

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In Ubuntu 10.10 openRA is available in Ubuntu Software Center

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This tutorial is very likely outdated

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error log from console terminal:

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Do you have all the required dependencies?
Take a look at
https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/2ffc66416be72b30de90a7c4a067afdac4c2fd63/INSTALL
and
https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/master/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control

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I followed all the instructions as above, except for the gacutil commands. Instead, following the instructions at https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/2ffc66416be72b30de90a7c4a067afdac4c2fd63/INSTALL I just copied all the files from thirdparty/*.dll and thirdparty/Tao/* to the OpenRA root directory.

When running openra, I got an exception.
Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: GL Error: 1282
at OpenRA.Renderer.Glsl.GraphicsDevice.CheckGlError () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at OpenRA.Renderer.Glsl.Shader..ctor (OpenRA.Renderer.Glsl.GraphicsDevice dev, System.String type) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at OpenRA.Renderer.Glsl.GraphicsDevice.CreateShader (System.String name) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at OpenRA.Graphics.Renderer..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

This is apparently due to my using an onboard intel graphics card (82945G). There is a code fix here http://bugs.open-ra.org/issues/883
You can download the patch file and apply it using
git apply <filename.patch>
or you can just click on the file to see the changes (it's about 5 lines of code), directly edit the OpenRA.Renderer.Gl/Shader.cs file and make the required changes.

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Why would you wanna compile it when .deb's are available?

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I think we should also add here where to find "settings.yaml" because I can't find it >_> And I wanna enable the Cg-Renderer for every time I start.
Also, you can find the main game folder at

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You find it at ~/.openra/settings.yaml

The .mix files should belong to ~/.openra/Content/$MOD

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Oh, you have to view hidden files by pressing Ctrl-H. There's the file I was looking for

thanks

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Hmm, how does one install extra mods (for example, mine) on Ubuntu? I tried simply dragging and dropping my mod into /usr/share/openra/mods/, but it says I do not have sufficient permission. But whenever I run "sudo nautilus" and DO put the file in there, the game will not even read the file when I open it up. I'm 100% positive it isn't just my mod, because it works fine on Windows and all that jazz.