nwmouse and friends, 64bit linux

[Legacy_cokeCan]

               Hi,
Has anyone sucessfully built, and have instructions for
the tools at http://home.roadrunner.com/~nwmovies on 64bit inux?
I am running ubuntu 10.10 (maverick).
What would be really nice is if someone could build
a package to set up the 32 bit  libs needed. Any help appreciated.

Coke

PS I think I have seen Skildron lurking around, I know from the old forums he's done it.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Calvinthesneak]

               he's definately here.  I'd offer to help but I'm probably about the same level linux wise.



I am not sure what nwnmouse does exactly, I am running a touchpad on my laptop with the same version of Ubuntu and it works fine, does it introduce more functionality?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_cokeCan]

               nwmouse is a replaces the software mouse in the game with a hardware mouse, and helps to reduce some of the jerkiness that I observe in game ;P

Otherwise, no extra functionality.  I am also working on getting nwshader compiled on linux if possible.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Skildron]

               Yes, I am here, and yes, I did build nwmouse, nwuser, nwlogger and nwmovies on 64bit linux. But my latest build is on a Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy machine, so I doubt that it will work on a 10.10 Maverick. You could test it, though. Download the package from here, cd to your nwn folder and unpack it with

tar xvzf nwlinux_build_hardy_8.04.tar.gz

edit your nwn script with the appropriate LD_PRELOAD statement and see if it works. If not, please post the complete error message and the contents of the log files so we can figure out what to do.

Another possibility is to download my ia32-libs-nwn ubuntu package and install it with

dpkg -i ia32-libs-nwn_20090808ubuntu9-nwn1_amd64.deb

dpkg will probably complain about missing dependencies, with a following

apt-get -f install

you can add the missing dependencies to your system. The ia32-libs-nwn package will add everything to your system that it needs to successfully build nwmouse etc. on an amd64 machine. Be aware though that I don't use Ubuntu maverick. I built the above package with the content from maverick, but if anything changed from my current hardy and karmic systems to maverick, there could be trouble ahead. I take no responsibilities if you blow up your system. That said, the ia32-libs-nwn package has worked well for me through several system upgrades and rebuilds of nwlinux extensions.

HTH
Greetings
Skildron
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Skildron, 10 novembre 2010 - 02:38 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_cokeCan]

               Skildron - thank you, you got me started on the right path. Unfortunately your ia32-libs-nwn ubuntu package didn't work for me, not too surprised. So I did some sleuthing on the ubuntu forums and this is what I came up with. This should work on ubuntu or other debian 64bit systems.

from your nwn top directory:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

wget http://frozenfox.fre...getlibs-all.deb

sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb

rm getlibs-all.deb   # if you dont want to keep it

getlibs -p libelfg0 libelf1

wget http://home.roadrunn...e-latest.tar.gz

tar xvfz nwmouse-latest.tar.gz



now add the following to nwn

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./miles:/usr/lib32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export XCURSOR_PATH=`pwd`

export XCURSOR_THEME=nwmouse

export LD_PRELOAD=./nwmouse.so



If I forgot anything I'll try and figure things out.



Coke
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Skildron]

               Hi CokeCan!

Good to know you got it working. But I wonder why my package did not work for you - I rebuilt it for Ubuntu maverick with contents from maverick especially for you . Essentially it does the same as the getlibs script - it installs the 32bit versions of libelf.so and some other 32bit libs that are needed to build nwlinux extensions and for which there are no 64bit compatibility packages for Ubuntu as they are not included in ia32-libs and have no lib32packagename version to install.

The advantage of the ia32-libs-nwn package is that it uses the system's package management while the getlibs script circumvents it. That can mean trouble with files being overwritten without control, but does not neccessarilly need to.

The advantage of the getlibs script is that you can use it for all kind of 32bit packages that you need installed on your 64bit system.

Well, have fun playing and thanks for sharing your experiences.

Greetings
Skildron
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Skildron]

               Oh, I forgot something: to successfully build nwmouse on a 64bit system, you will need libxcursor-dev and libx11-dev in 32bit versions, too. The nwmouse-install.pl perl script depends on those to build nwmouse.so, because the 64bit versions of the devel packages point gcc only to 64bit shared objects, which obviously is of no use for a 32bit application like nwmouse.so. I think, you will need to do

sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libx11-dev libc6-dev-i386

too, if you don't already have done so, because the multilib package is needed for cross compiling (x86 on x86_64 host system), the libx11-dev package is needed for building anything that depends on xorg and the libc6-dev-i386 package is needed to build anything that uses libc6-i386.

If you want to build nwmovies, too, you need

sudo apt-get install lib32asound2-dev libxrender-dev libxfixes-dev

and libogg-dev, libsdl-gfx1.2-4, libsdl-gfx1.2-dev, libsdl1.2-dev in 32bit versions.

HTH
Greetings
Skildron
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_cokeCan]

               Hi Skildron,

I can look into why your package didn't work. I actually didn't build nwmouse this time, if you look

at the script I posted you'll notice i am using the prebuilt version. I am also using the system sdl libraries, not the prebuilt ones coming with nwn. Since doing this a lot of the lag and jerkiness I was noticing in game is gone. The instructions in the sticky thread work for nwmovies, which I also got installed. That being said, it is not clear that David Holland, zzqzzq_zzq, is actively supporting these anymore, and I am guessing they won't work forever. So I will see if I can slowly get some instructions together for keeping them up to date.



Thanks

Coke
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Skildron]

               Oh, I see, my bad, I just did not remember that nwmouse comes with a prebuilt version, too, and not only nwmovies. And about David Holland, I think if someone tries to contact him, he might answer, but  my last contact with is already three or four years back, when we tried to adapt the nwlinux packages to 64bit linux systems.

But if everything works for you, I would not worry too much. The libs nwlinux uses are fairly standard and if the extensions don't work because of changes in the libs, then probably the nwn linux client won't work any longer, either:o.

Greetings
Skildron
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Skildron, 11 novembre 2010 - 10:04 .