As it hasn't been copied form the old forum, any chance of a guide on compiling from source along with different optimisation options?

are you thinking the nexuiz quakec source, or darkplaces c source? (im tihnking nex quakec, but i thought it better to ask)

How to compile on Linux and OS X:

First, you extract the sources. These are included in the ZIP or, if you want the current work inprogress sources, available via SVN and CVS.

I'll explain the SVN/CVS part here. There will be some minor differences when compiling 1.5, but these will go away when 1.5.1 gets released

First, you need the program "fteqcc", available from http://www.fteqw.com/index.php?d=download or as a package in your favorite Linux distribution. I won't explain how to compile this one since this is included with every good Linux distribution anyway (it's available as a package for at least Debian, Gentoo and even - although it isn't a Linux distribution - FreeBSD).

Then, you need to compile and install DarkPlaces. This goes like this:

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$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.icculus.org:/cvs/cvsroot/twilight login
Password: anonymous
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.icculus.org:/cvs/cvsroot/twilight -z3 checkout darkplaces

To update and compile a new version, this is what you do:

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$ cd darkplaces
$ cvs -z3 update -dP
$ make nexuiz
$ cd ..

If you get error messages about something missing, you probably need to install packages named like libsdl-dev, libvorbis-dev, libpng-dev or libjpeg-dev. -dev means that you also need the .h files belonging to these libraries - some distributions use -devel instead, and Gentoo always includes this information, so on Gentoo, you just install the libraries if they are missing. Use your distribution's search facility to find the names of the missing packages.

The other part you need is Nexuiz, that is, the game data and the game code. DarkPlaces is "just" the engine. Downloading Nexuiz SVN works like this:

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$ svn checkout svn://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/trunk/ nexuiz

To update and compile, you will do:

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$ cd nexuiz
$ svn update
$ ( cd data/menuqc && fteqcc )
$ ( cd data/qcsrc/server && fteqcc )
$ cd ..

Then you can play bleeding-edge current Nexuiz by doing this:

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$ cd nexuiz
$ ../darkplaces/nexuiz-sdl

Note that you won't be able to play on 1.5 servers with this because of a network code change.

divVerent wrote:

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$ ( cd data/qcsrc/client && fteqcc )


You don't wanna do this
csqc code is svn is just a template and it likely that it'll break things or at least cause cause some bugs.
If you already compiled it, delete Nexuiz/data/csprogs.*

I noticed the linux section of the makefile does not take environment variables like CFLAGS into account. The makefile sets its own and custom settings are ignored.

latest fteqcc http://www.fteqw.com/fteqw-nightly/
you WONT compile quakec code with fteqcc from post above

and DP uses SVN now.

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svn co svn://svn.icculus.org/twilight/trunk twilight