GPL Quake 3

[sdousley]

Anyone had any luck with this??

I downloaded the zip file, extracted it, and read the README.txt file.

In there (there's VERY LITTLE on how to install) It says from within the "code" dir to run:

./unix/cons -- gcc=gcc-2.95 g++=g++-2.95

I assume u need to change 2.95 for the relevent version of gcc. I'm running 3.3.5, so i ran:

./unix/cons -- gcc=gcc-3.3.5 g++=g++-3.3.5

and i get this:

sdousley@homer:~/documents/programs/quake/quake3-1.32b/code> ./unix/cons -- gcc=gcc-3.3.5 g++=g++-3.3.5
: No such file or directory
sdousley@homer:~/documents/programs/quake/quake3-1.32b/code>

the unix/cons file IS there......

Anyone got this to work properly?

[Nihilanth]

(there's VERY LITTLE on how to install)

Told ya.

[painQuin]

this may be too late but I've gotten further (no success yet) by ignoring the #! and doing it manually:
$ env gcc=etc g++=etc perl ./unix/cons

I still get a build error further down the line, but this at least gets you started

[farslayer]

I'm curious as to why you are mucking about trying to compile a version of quake 3 for linux instead of just using the linux q3 installer ?

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/qua....32b-3.x86.run

is there some advantag to the GPL version I don't know about ?

[techieMoe]

I'm curious as to why you are mucking about trying to compile a version of quake 3 for linux instead of just using the linux q3 installer ?

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/qua....32b-3.x86.run

is there some advantag to the GPL version I don't know about ?

Well, I can't speak from experience (since I just use the Id-provided client) but Icculus mentioned some improved sound support for folks who have AC97 sound cards. Other than that, I agree. Just sounds like an awful lot of work for very litle gain.