dependancy list

[JsnMtth]

Anyone have a dependancy list?

Suppose I wanted a distro agnostic build?
What are the build requirments from libc to gcc to this and that?

[loki1950]

Not sure of all the dependancies i just followed the wiki article a long time ago and there has never been a problem with the lower level stuff as most current distros have a base build tool chain meta package ie. Unbuntu's build-essentials and the needed extra packages are listed on the wiki.

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[JsnMtth]

mesa as opposed to SDL? Which one is better?

[loki1950]

I would think SDL for it's cross-platform abilities as mesa is strictly X11.

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[energyman76b]

mesa as opposed to SDL? Which one is better?

mesa and sdl are two completly different things

mesa is the opengl lib. SDL is an abstraction lib making use of mesa and provide stuff mesa doesn't. Like input, sound, text, windowing etc pp.

So there is no 'oppose'. SDL makes use of mesa on X11 systems.

[JsnMtth]

Thanks Does it use DirectX on windows systems?

[loki1950]

It can but we don't the Ogre 3D library allows you to choose between OpenGL and DirectX as it completely abstracts the rendering layer ATM we use OpenGL and have to code our own rendering layer completely.Ogre was not around when the project started so it's just another reason to move to it.

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[JsnMtth]

Does DirectX have some sort of advantage, I've seen it's popularity grow, but also noticed the excellent performance of the engines that John Carmack seems to crank out like hot cakes.

[loki1950]

John Carmack seems to crank out like hot cakes.

As far has i can remember all the quake engines used OpenGl as well as the Doom3 engine,he also likes to GPL the the ones they are not actively selling hence Nexuiz,OpenArena and friends based on the Q2 and QA engines.

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