Running dom3 under Linuxbase on FreeBSD

[Kamamura]

Is it possible? Has anyone tried?

[hnchrist3]

I run Dom3 under both Mandriva 2007 and Ubuntu 7.04 ("Fiesty Fawn"). It works perfectly.

[Alneyan]

Erh. The keyword here is "FreeBSD", as in "does Dominions run under the Linux emulation provided by FreeBSD?". Native Linux is fine, of course.

For what it's worth, I could get Dominions 2 to run under FreeBSD. I haven't tried Dominions 3, but I could give it a try... as soon as I figure out where I put my FreeBSD box.

[Gandalf Parker]

If you get it to run then please announce it all over the FreeBSD boards http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Kamamura]

:-) I have the pleasure to report that I managed to get it working under FreeBSD 6.2 with Linux emulation.

If someone is interested in details, I will gladly provide assistance.

[Szumo]

Could you perhaps just write a simple HOWTO and post it here? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Kamamura]

I admit that it's a bit late :-), but I've sorted out the minimal necessary steps since I had to do it again. Here goes the list of the required ports:

linux_base-fc-4_13
linux-sdl-1.2.10,1
linux-sdl_image-1.2.5
linux-sdl_ttf-2.0.8
linux_dri-7.0

Just install these along with the required dependencies, and you should be set to go! Exact versions do not matter, just compile the latest stuff from ports.

Also, you will probably need the correct drivers with functional OpenGL hardware support for your current card.

Mine is GeforceMX4000, supported by the legacy driver nvidia-driver-96.43.07. I am not sure how well are ATI chips supported (if at all).

Works under FreeBSD 7 too!

[lch]

Here's my cheap two-step "How to get Dominions 3 running" guide for any Linux and BSD derivative:

- install Wesnoth. This game should be available in all the distributions through the normal package repository.
- install Dominions. All the necessary dependencies should have been pulled in by Wesnoth.

[Kamamura]

Here's my cheap two-step "How to get Dominions 3 running" guide for any Linux and BSD derivative:

- install Wesnoth. This game should be available in all the distributions through the normal package repository.
- install Dominions. All the necessary dependencies should have been pulled in by Wesnoth.

That would not work FreeBSD, because while Wesnoth is compiled natively and the resulting binaries are runable directly on FreeBSD, Dominions are installed as Linux binaries, so you need all the LinuxBase infrastructure in place to run it. Wesnoth requires no such thing and won't do it for you.

One more addendum for the procedure I described above:

You need to enable Linux binary compatibility either by compiling the kernel with the following directive:

options COMPAT_LINUX

or by loading the corresponding kernel module with:

kldload linux