Updated. Wed Jul 31 14:06:00 MEST 2002 (Vincent S. Cojot ) Tested with: ----------------------------------------------------- Machine 1: - Solaris 8 10/00 for Sparc on an Ultra2 (1300) with a Creator3D card. - SDL-1.2.3 (http://www.libsdl.org) - X11R6.4 (comes with Solaris 8). - XIL-1.4 (comes with Solaris 8). - OpenGL-1.2.2 (see http://www.sun.com/solaris/opengl if using Solaris 8 older than 10/01). Machine 2: - Solaris 8 02/02 for Sparc on a SunBlade 2000 (900Mhz CU) and XVR-1000 card. - SDL-1.2.4 (http://www.libsdl.org) - X11R6.4 (comes with Solaris 8). - XIL-1.4 (comes with Solaris 8). - OpenGL-1.2.3. (BIG PROBLEM with Multi-Texturing: SEE BELOW) Installation instructions: ----------------------------------------------------- Use the README file at the top level for installation instructions.. See the Solaris-Specific make options at the top of the Solaris Makefile (Makefile.Solaris). Most interesting options are: BUILD_X11=YES (for X11 rendering) BUILD_GLX=YES (for GLX rendering) BUILD_SDL=YES (for SDL rendering) BUILD_SDLGL=YES (for GLX rendering with SDL) BUILD_XIL=YES (for XIL rendering) BUILD_CORONA=YES (for the SunRay Terminal, -unverified- by me since I don't have the SDK) BUILD_DEDICATED=YES (Will build a dedicated quake2 server binary). BUILD_SOLARIS_PKG=YES # Build a Solaris package of all of the binaries for use with pkgadd. BUILD_DATA_PKG=YES # Build a Solaris package of the game (shareware or final) \ # data files for use with pkgadd. Notes on packages: ----------------------------------------------------- The "release" and "debug" packages of the binaries get built by default. This should result in something like this: # ls -la releasesparc/pkg/*pkg debugsparc/pkg/*pkg -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 16548352 Aug 2 11:33 debugsparc/pkg/iDquake2-debug-r0.13.1-sparc.pkg -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 5249536 Aug 2 11:27 releasesparc/pkg/iDquake2-release-r0.13.1-sparc.pkg To build the the data "iDquake2d" package, edit the line in the Makefile that says "PKG_DATA_BUILD_DIR=/usr/local/src/quake2-data/quake2" and point it to the correct location for your data files. Set BUILD_DATA_PKG=YES in Makefile.Solaris. (WARNING: -everything- under ../baseq2 gets taken. Next, run "gmake -f Makefile.Solaris". This should result in something like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 52185600 Aug 2 11:27 releasesparc/pkg/iDquake2d-release-r0.13.1-sparc.pkg After installation, you get: # pkginfo |grep -i quake2 application iDquake2 ID Software Quake2 3.21 for Solaris 8 (X11,XIL,GLX,SDL) application iDquake2d ID Software Quake2 shareware data files for Solaris 8 (X11,XIL,GLX,SDL) What's working: ----------------------------------------------------- - The Quake2 binary - The SDL Quake2 binary (uses SDL for sound and CD). - X11 rendering (ref_softx.so) - XIL rendering (ref_xil.so) (Faster for some routines) - SDL rendering (ref_softsdl.so) (Nice full screen effect on Solaris displays) - GLX rendering (ref_glx.so) (Works semi-OK on my Ultra2/Creator3d but it's s-l-o-w). What's still broken: ----------------------------------------------------- - SDLGL renderer (loads, colors are all wrong. Colormap problem? Update: it may be an endianness problem in SDL since it displays fine to a remote x86 Linux machine with NVidia drivers. Being worked on, priority #2). - quake2 and sdlquake2 Seg fault when quitting the game (not a show stoppper but being worked on, priority #1). Update: FIXED (replace exit(0) with commented out _exit(0) in Sys_Quit() in src/solaris/sys_solaris.c. - WARNING: On my new XVR-1000 card and with OpenGL-1.2.3 the textures are messed up and jumping in GLX mode! All of the quake2-r versions hexibit this problem. I'm investigating the issue.... Note: the Utah-GLX project has a quake2 solaris source port that does -not- exhibit this problem (seems to be in ref_gl). Update: Sept 4th 2002: Sun has acknowledged the problem. Patches 112565-05 (5.9) and 112564-05 (5.8) don't help. It looks like a problem with multi-texturing but there is a WORKAROUND: add the following to your quake2 cmd line (without quotes): "+set gl_ext_multitexture 0" Thank you! ----------------------------------------------------- Thanks for this Solaris release go to: - Martin englund and Elias Mårtensson from SUN (sweden). They ported Quake2 to Solaris with XIL and OpenGL and Martin made this release possible by contributing the source code once Quake2 was open-source'd by Id Software in dec' 2001. - Id software. (for such a great multi-platform game, Zoid for porting it to Linux). - The guys at icculus for hosting this quake2 project (Steven Fuller, Brendan Burns and others..). This file written by Vincent S. Cojot (Maintainer wannabe).