How to compile SPARToR/McDiddy's on Windows (64 bit)

The easy way to get everything you need at once is to install the Git for Windows SDK.

Go to this page:
https://git-for-windows.github.io/
Scroll to the bottom to find the SDK button. Get the 64 bit version and install it.

When it's done installing a billion things, you should get a command prompt.

Now you need the the libraries SPARToR uses. You don't need to download/unzip/compile them anymore! Just run this pacman command and say yes when it asks:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2 mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_net mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_image mingw-w64-x86_64-glew

That's it!

Now clone the SPARToR source code via Git:
cd /
git clone https://github.com/superjer/SPARToR

Everything up to here was one-time setup stuff. This last part will update your files and compile SPARToR and run it. This is the only part you need to repeat to check out the latest stuff in the future.
cd /SPARToR
git pull
make
./mcdiddy.exe <OR> ./deadking.exe

If you don't install/can't find the shortcut to open the command prompt, just go to C:\git-sdk-64 and run git-bash.exe

How to compile SPARToR/McDiddy's on Linux

You'll need to install these packages:
gcc git libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libglew-dev

For example, on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint this should install everything:
sudo apt-get install gcc git libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libglew-dev

Do NOT use sudo/root to do anything from here on...

Clone SPARToR:
cd
git clone https://github.com/superjer/SPARToR

Everything up to here was one-time setup stuff. Get updates, compile and run SPARToR:
cd ~/SPARToR
git pull
make
./spartor

How to compile SPARToR/McDiddy's on Mac

Install the Xcode stuff from Apple and make sure you have a working gcc.

You need to install glew1.5-dev and the dev packages for SDL1.2.x: libsdl-devel, libsdl_image, libsdl_net. I recommend using MacPorts for this.

MacPorts can also install Git for you which you should have anyway because Git is awesome.

Open a terminal and clone SPARToR (once):
cd
git clone https://github.com/superjer/SPARToR.git

Checkout the mcdiddy branch:
cd ~/SPARToR
git checkout mcdiddy

Get updates, compile and run SPARToR (often as you like):
cd ~/SPARToR
git pull
make
open ./spartor.app

Did you get any errors on the previous steps?

What did make end up saying?

The spartor_mac.app folder is always part of the project. It's only used on Mac and ignored on Windows.

Well then just show me the output of make

(It's also possible you need to type .exe on the end of spartor_win32 but I kind of doubt it.)

Hmmm. Looks like you have an older version of OpenGL than I'm expecting. I'm writing a patch.

OK I patched it, but I'm not sure if it will work. Do this:
git pull
make

I guess Microsoft forgot to include glBlendEquation on Windows. Word on the street is I should use glew to avoid this kind of problem.

OK so I'm now using glew to avoid this kind of problem.

In related news, glew is awesome.

Just a heads up to everyone that there is new stuff!

The directions above have been updated and are slightly easier now.

I'm not going to be doing binary releases (much) as they take too much of my time.

NEW: Level scrolling and map editor!



To start editing, type edit in the console.
Then you can select textures from the upper-right and click to paint with them.
There are some tool textures that do magic things:

NUL: reset tiles back to how they were when you loaded the level.

SOL: make a tile solid

PLAT: make a tile a platform

OPN: make a tile open space (non-solid, non-platform)

COPY: select tiles to copy, this also copies solidness, etc.

PSTE: paste what you have copied

OBJ: move the player (for now)

In order to see what tiles are solid, etc., use the hulls command.

You can save and load maps with the commands save <name> and load <name>.

The maps are saved in mcdiddy/maps.

I'm working on support for multiple texture files.

This is all built in a way to work over the network, but the network code is really crashy right now. I know what I need to do to fix it but it is going to take a while.

The game now loads all textures in mcdiddy/textures, so you can add your own.

In edit mode, change textures with PageDown. Ignore the (null) ones for now.

It will work when you save and reload your map, too.

I will but right now networking is pretty busted anyway. At least for map editing. Which is my focus at the moment.

I've got audio added to the engine now, and lots of sound effects for McDiddy's.

I also added this edit to the instructions at the beginning of the truck:

***EDIT (2012-01-17): I am now working on several different games for SPARToR. They are in their own branches in Git. To switch to the McDiddy's branch, do a git checkout mcdiddy before you make. It will stay on that branch until you checkout something else.