Linux port

[JanSimek]

The project compiles and runs under linux after some changes and commenting out the audio code. Below is the list of functions and macros that need to be reimplemented for linux:

• _splitpath
• filelength
• stricmp → alias to strcasecmp
• strnicmp
• strupr
• strlwr
• itoa
• CopyFileA
• timeGetTime
• GetTickCount
• min → macro #define MIN(a, b) (((a) < (b)) ? (a) : (b))
• max → macro #define MAX(a, b) (((a) > (b)) ? (a) : (b))
• _MAX_DIR → ?
• _MAX_FNAME → FILENAME_MAX
• _MAX_EXT → ?
• MAX_PATH → PATH_MAX

Also, what about the mutexes? I don't understand what the autorun.c/h file is for except preventing multiple instances of the game being run.

[Risu]

For help with audio you can take a look at falltergeist implementation: Mixer.cpp

[k3tamina]

Also, what about the mutexes? I don't understand what the autorun.c/h file is for except preventing multiple instances of the game being run.

Aside the fact that a Windows mutex is not a mutex but is instead an interprocess sync primitive, I think that they are being used:

1. in autorunMutexCreate to prevent multiple instances of the same process, mutex is freed at the end of falloutMain by calling autorunMutexClose
2. in programWindowSetTitle to prevent multiple initialization of the window title, mutex is freed in windowManagerExit being called twice by calling gameExit > _windowExit at the end of falloutMain and redundantly at exit by calling atexit(windowManagerExit) in windowManagerInit
3. in main but freed almost immediately in windowManagerInit, I don't understand why

To make number 1 cross platform I think the most effective way is to implement file locking, either by using a well maintained library (such as boost) or by hardcoding for each platform (linux example).

In my opinion number 2 shouldn't be needed, it can be replaced by introducing well thought global variables.
Number 3 might not be needed, until we figure out what's it needed for.

[alexbatalov]

I don't think we need them at all. I've checked a couple of open source games, there are no locks or mutexes to prevent multiple instances.