The Last Outpost RPG-X EF Clean-up Project

This repository was forked from the UBerGames rpgxEF repository located here: https://github.com/UberGames/rpgxEF. This is an attempt by The Last Outpost (www.last-outpost.net) to clean up the source code in order to get it to build with Visual Studio 2015 and be able to maintain it more easily in the future.

Installing Instructions

For Beginners

• Make sure you are running on a computer or Virtual Machine (VM) with Linux Ubuntu 64-bits (or variants such as Xubuntu). For more information on how to run a VM under Windows, follow any of these guides (or just google "setting up a virtual machine"):
  • http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Ubuntu-on-VirtualBox
  • http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox

We are running a Xubuntu 64-bits install because it is more lightweight so more suitable for running as a VM. You can download a Xubuntu iso image here: http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/16.04/release/ Then chose the xubuntu-xx.yy-desktop-amd64.iso image (where xx.yy is 16.04 at the time of writing)

• Run your VM
• Download the install_full.sh file or copy its contents into a new .sh file somewhere on your VM
• Open a terminal window in the location where you downloaded the install_full.sh file (For Xubuntu, go to the directory using the File Manager, then right click and select "Open Terminal Here").
• Type: sudo ./install_full.sh
• When prompted for a "root password",. insert the password you chose for your user account while installing Linux on your VM
• The script automatcially downloads the RPG-X EF Repository from GitHub and puts it in /home//Projects/rpgxef (obviously, is the username of your Linux user account)
• It also automatically downloads all development dependencies needed for building the source code
• In the terminal, navigate to the rpgxef repository directory which was just created: cd /home//Projects/rpgxef

Building for Linux

• In the terminal, type: make
• The source code will now be build for Linux 64-bits and the output files will be present in the build/release-linux-x86_64 directory.

Building for Windows

• To build for windows, run: ./cross-make-mingw.sh (for 32 bits) or ./cross-make-mingw64.sh (for 64-bits) this will produce the required .dll files and .exe files

• Put the .dll and .exe files from the build/ directory into your RPG-X EF install. The easyest way to test this is to get the RPG-X Standard Edition from TLO: http://www.last-outpost.net/rpgx/ and then copying the following files from your VM onto your computer:

  • Copy build/release-mingw32-x64/rpgxEF.x64.exe and build/release-mingw32-x64/renderer_opengl1_x64.dll to the base install directory of RPG-X (where the current .exe is located, overwrite if asked)
  • Copy build/release-mingw32-x64/rpgxEF/uix64.dll, build/release-mingw32-x64/rpgxEF/qagamex64.dll, build/release-mingw32-x64/rpgxEF/cgamex64.dll to the RPG-X2 directory located in your RPG-X install directory

• Be sure to run the game with the following cvars: +set vm_game 0 +set vm_ui 0 +set vm_cgame 0 +set fs_game RPG-X2 In order to do this, make a shortcut on your desktop to the rpgxEF.x64.exe, right click it, selecte properties, and in the "Target:" window, it should read something like this: "C:\Program Files\The Last Outpost RPG-X Standard Edition\rpgxEF.x64.exe" Append the cvars, so it now reads something like: "C:\Program Files\The Last Outpost RPG-X Standard Edition\rpgxEF.x64.exe" +set vm_game 0 +set vm_ui 0 +set vm_cgame 0 +set fs_game RPG-X2 Then press Apply and OK and start the game via the shortcut

For Advanced Users

• Git Pull this repository onto a Ubuntu flavoured Linux machine or VM

• Terminal to the repository directory and run: ./install_deps.sh. This will install all development dependencies for running make

• Run make to build for Linux 64 bits, find the output files in the build directory

  • Run ./make-i386.sh for building the Linux 32 bits variant
  • Run ./cross-make-mingw.sh for building the Windows 32 bits variant
  • Run ./cross-make-mingw64.sh for building the Windows 64 bits variant

• Install a fresh copy of the RPG-X Standard Edition from TLO: http://www.last-outpost.net/rpgx/ and put the build files in the correct directory as described below, then run executable file to launch RPG-X EF

  • Copy the following files to the base install directory of RPG-X (where the current binary is located, overwrite if asked):

    • build/release-PLATFORM-ARCH/rpgxEF.ARCH
    • build/release-PLATFORM-ARCH/renderer_opengl1_ARCH (.so for Linux, .dll for Windows)

  • Copy the following files (.so for Linux, .dll for Windows) to the RPG-X2 directory located in your RPG-X install directory:

    • build/release-PLATFORM-ARCH/rpgxEF/uiARCH,
    • build/release-PLATFORM-ARCH/rpgxEF/qagameARCH
    • build/release-PLATFORM-ARCH/rpgxEF/cgameARCH

• Be sure to run the game with the following cvars: +set vm_game 0 +set vm_ui 0 +set vm_cgame 0 +set fs_game RPG-X2 UPDATE: cvars should no longer be required.

Contact Information

Contact Telex Ferra or Martin Thompson on www.last-outpost.net/forum for more information about this repository.