How do I compile a Linux compatible map??

Hello everyone,

As you may or may not knowIve have released Stalkyard, but have had a
few linux boys saying thay it wont boot up on their linux setups. Now
as linux have the largest most stable servers, its ideal for me to be
able to support them for maximum coverage of my map. So to the point.
How the hell do I make my map compile so its suitable for Win32 and
Linux?? Please help me obi snark community, you are my only hope.

Worst. Pun. Ever.

Dammit man this is serious..but thanks :biggrin:

I don't know about HL2, but in HL1 the main thing you had to worry about was capitalizations. For instance, if you referred to a particular model as "Mapname.mdl", but it was really called "mapname.mdl", it would work fine in windows, but not in Linux. This is because Linux is case sensitive while Windows is not.

As I say, I've no idea if this is the problem you are having, or even if the info is still relevant, but I suspect it is worth checking out.

I dont know if that matters or not either but Ive checked and Hammer
makes them all lowercase by default anyway. Thanks for the idea though.
Anyone else? Surely not every single map on here is non-llinux? Why
havent the linux people kicked up a fuss?

The idea isn't to make them all lowercase; it's to make sure the
names/targets match. For example, in a windows command line typing "cd
C:\BLAH\blah\BLah" would work even if the path was actually
C:\blah\blah\blah, while in linux, the command "cd /blah/BLah/blAH"
would ONLY work if the path actually was exactly /blah/BLah/blah.

Thanks man, good call, but ive made the map totally from hl2 entities
and models, everything is in lowercase and match each other. In fact I
think that if most of the file paths were written out differently it
have a fit, even in win32. Regardless, ive checked all pathname, entity
names etc and they are all lower case and match up to each other where
appropiate. Keep the ideas coming though...

Have you tried running vbsp with the -linuxdata parameter? :razz:

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as linux have the largest most stable servers, its ideal for me to be
able to support them for maximum coverage of my map

Linux dedicated servers will run the same version of maps as windows
based servers, without a doubt. all linux based playing issues are
probably restricted to linux and thats all - either that or restricted
to WINE/WINEX not running things properly.

Servers will run the same file you compiled on a windows/linux machine.[/size]

No linux based system wil lrun the map at th emo, they all crash or
reset. Ive nailed it down to an entity problem, but still workign on
it...most annoying

would you care to describe the problem for future people who might encounter it?

i had a tfc map that played fine on windows servers, but crashed linux servers at the same point every time.

it was all down to a sequence of explosions that had too many temp entities (rock gibs) all flying around at the one time.

that was hl1, but linux is still the same, so maybe it's still relevant.