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Installing and Compiling Vegastrike.
See also HowTos#Installing

Binary Distributions

The Vega Strike project and many Linux distributions provide binary packages for Vega Strike, either as a download or through their package management systems. We attempt to list some of the distributions and link to relevant information.

See also: Overview of stable releases

Linux

• stable release 32-bit and 64-bit
• openSUSE
• FreeBSD
• Fedora, Mandriva, other: find RPM
• Linux Caixa Mágica do Magalhães 2 (For the Linux magic box Magalhes 2)

Mac OS

• latest stable release version 0.5.0

Windows

• latest stable release Version 5.1.r1

Requirements

What are the minimum system requirements for Vegastrike?

A:Your computer needs to have OpenGL support (which most do nowadays).

• Minimum Requirement
  • Processor: Pentium I 200Mhz or Apple G3 400Mhz
  • Video card: 3d card with 16Mb of memory (although it will work without a 3d card too)
  • Screen color depth: 16bit
  • RAM: 512 Mb (I use 256 Mb in WinXP without any troubles - smbarbour / same to me in Linux Ubuntu - federoy)
  • Swap space: ???
  • HD: ???
• Recommended Requirement
  • Processor: ???
  • Video card: ???
  • Screen color depth: ???
  • RAM: ???
  • Swap space: ???
  • HD: ???

If your graphics card is poor, put it on low/retro detail and low resolution/16bit color, fullscreen.
More info about video cards is here: Q7

Which video cards are known to work (or not to) with Vegastrike?

A: Any ATI Radeon or NVidia GeForce GPU should be fine. Other cards with OpenGL drivers and at least 16MB VRAM may also work. If your card is old, slow, or low on VRAM you will probably need to turn down the level of detail, resolution, and color depth.

This question is also discussed in the following thread in the forum: http://forums.vega-strike.org/viewtopic.php?t=1399

Working

Vendor	Card Info	Operating System	Additional Info
ATI	Rage 128 Pro		not 8MB version
ATI	Radeon 7000 Mobility	OSX	(iBook G3)
ATI	Radeon 7200	Linux
ATI	Radeon 7500	Linux	Forum-Link
ATI	Radeon 7500	WinXP	Forum-Link
ATI	Radeon 8500	Linux
ATI	Radeon 9000 Pro	Win98SE	Forum-Link
ATI	Radeon 9200	Linux DRI XF4.3	Use the 16bit depth, not 24!!
ATI	Radeon 9200	Linux Kubutu "Breezy Badger"	XOrg driver, 1024x768 24bit, run "xhost +local:" before launching VS from console
ATI	Radeon 9500 Pro	Linux
ATI	Radeon 9600 Mobility	OSX	(PowerBook G4)
ATI	Radeon 9600 Pro	Win2k
ATI	Radeon 9700 Pro	Linux/Win2k
ATI	Radeon 9800 Pro	OSX	(G4 867Mhz OSX 10.2.8)
ATI	Radeon IGP 345M	WinXP
ATI	Radeon X300 Mobility 64MB	Windows 7	(default driver)
ATI	Radeon X1600 Mobility	Linux/OS X	(MacBook Pro, using proprietary video drivers in Linux)
ATI	Radeon HD 3200	Linux	KMS R600 classic driver, Forum-Link
ATI	Radeon HD 6530D	Linux Ubuntu 64bit/Windows7 64bit	Linux Propriety driver only AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Driver - Linux x86 & Linux x86_64
NVidia	GeForce 2 GTS 32MB	Linux/Windows	Forum-Link
NVidia	GeForce 2 MX	Linux/Windows
NVidia	GeForce 2 MX	OSX	(PowerMac G4 800)
NVidia	GeForce 3 (standard)	Linux/Windows
NVidia	GeForce 3 Ti200 128MB	WinXP
NVidia	GeForce 3 Ti500 64MB
NVidia	GeForce 4 MX440 64MB	WinME
NVidia	GeForce 4 MX460 64MB	Win2k/WinXP
NVidia	GeForce 4 MX (integrated)	WinXP	Forum-Link
NVidia	GeForce 4 Ti series
NVidia	GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128MB	Linux	Forum-Link
NVidia	GeForce FX 5600
NVidia	GeForce FX 5900
NVidia	TNT2 M64 32MB
NVidia	GeForce 9 9400GT 1GB	Linux Ubuntu
3DFX	Voodoo3 16MB	Linux/Win2k
3DFX	Voodoo5000 64MB	Linux
3DLabs	Permedia 2 FireGL 1000 Pro
Elsa	Erazor III Pro	Linux(Debian)/Win2k
Matrox	Millenium G400	Win2k	Forum-Link
Matrox	G440 DualHead MAX 32MB	Linux Mandrake 10.1 Community	Forum-Link
Matrox	Millenium G550	Linux(Debian)	Forum-Link
S3	Savage/IX-MV	Linux (Gentoo)	Forum-Link
SiS	630 16MB shared memory	WinXP	(But no cursor at the bases and some minor graphical issues)
Intel	Mobile 945 Express	WinXP	Old driver used, See [1] for details.

Not Working

Vendor	Card Info	Operation System	Additional Info
ATI	Rage 128 8MB	OSX	(iMac G3 et al)
3DFX	Voodoo 4500	Win98SE
Hercules	Kyro II 64MB
Matrox	G400	Win98	Forum-Link
Matrox	G450 32MB	Linux

Installation FAQ

I get a message "The application failed to run because of an incorrect configuration, reinstalling may fix this problem"

This means you have not installed the VC8 re-distributable package.

Look for an executable called "vcredist_x86.exe" in the bin folder and install it as Administrator.

If you do not have that program, download and install it from Microsoft here.

How do I turn fullscreen on or off in Vegastrike?

A: Edit vegastrike.config or /.vegastrike/vegastrike.config and change fullscreen to false/true wherever it occurs.

A: Run Launcher.exe program, select OPTIONS, and adjust color.

Section of the vegastrike.config file that sets the screen mode:
#cat Color full_32 full_16 win_32 win_16

To set windowed mode use:
#set Color win_32
or
#set Color win_16

To set fullscreen mode use:
#set Color full_32
or
#set Color full_16

After installing with the Linux Binary installer, I get an error about libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

A: This library is a 'compatibility' library used by many precompiled applications, including Vegastrike. It is available, for Fedora Core 3, from the package compat-libstdc++. Other distributions may be similar.

Debian: See if you have /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6. If not, install package called "libstdc++6" which should give you that lib. Then you need to do a symlink for it to work: "ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3".

Once this is installed, both Vegastrike and the setup application should work.

Compiling FAQ

Does the source code work with VC++ 6.0 or 7.0?

A: Most certainly. VC++ 6.0/7.0 is unfortunately the only way I know how to compile it in windows.
Not completly true, it works with cygwin too. See HowTo:Cygwin Compiling.

Download vega-proj (vc++ 6) or vega-vc7 (vc++ 7), not the outdated vega-new-proj and have at it (from CVS).

See HowTo:VCPP Compiling for more information.

Note for people with an old project (such as vega-new-proj):

It's a bit of a trick to get all the .lib files into the project because a lot of the people who are in charge of maintaining the project somehow got rid if the library include directories from the project since I committed it. However, it's pretty easy to add those paths.

You have to add a few simple .cpp files to the project so give it a shot if you will.

The simplest way is to checkout vega-proj as it says in HowTo:Checkout CVS.

While compiling VS from CVS i got lots of error like seen in this thread in the forum. (e.g pasting "operator" and "+" does not give a valid preprocessing token) and they are all in somewhere like the ../src/boost129/ directory. What should i do?

A: Try to run ./configure with the --enable-boost-128 parameter.
See also:

• HowTo:Compile From CVS
• HowTo:Cygwin Compiling.

When compiling VS I get a glXGetProcAddress or glXGetProcAddressARB error.

A:

• Preferred way: Inserting the following lines into the file gl_init.cpp (Forum Link)

#define GLX_GLXEXT_PROTOTYPES
#include <GL/glx.h>

• A second way is to replace glXGetProcAddress with glXGetProcAddressARB or the other way around.
• If none of the other ways worked, include the line

#define glXGetProcAddress glXGetProcAddressARB

or

#define glXGetProcAddressARB glXGetProcAddress

at the top of the file gl_init.cpp (the very first line)

• See also the forum entries below:
  • http://forums.vega-strike.org/viewtopic.php?t=966
  • http://forums.vega-strike.org/viewtopic.php?t=1085
  • http://forums.vega-strike.org/viewtopic.php?t=1153
  • http://forums.vega-strike.org/viewtopic.php?p=14032#14032

When compiling VS I get a ./depcomp: No such file or directory error.

A: You need to start automake with the parameter --add-missing like this:

automake --add-missing

I'm getting similar errors as shown below when trying to compile today's cvs version, What about that?

if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..   -DHAVE_SDL=1 -DSDL_WINDOWING=1      -DHAVE_AL=1  -DUSE_STENCIL_BUFFER=1
-DDATA_DIR=\"/usr/share/games/vegastrike/data\"  -I/usr/include/python2.3 -DHAVE_PYTHON=1 -DUSE_BOOST_128=1
 -I../../src/boost  -I../../src   -pipe  -falign-loops=2 -falign-jumps=2 -falign-functions=2 -I/usr/include/SDL
 -D_REENTRANT -pthread -pipe -MT gl_globals.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/gl_globals.Tpo" -c -o gl_globals.o gl_globals.cpp; \
then mv -f ".deps/gl_globals.Tpo" ".deps/gl_globals.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/gl_globals.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
In file included from gl_globals.cpp:22:
gl_globals.h:123: error: syntax error before `;' token
gl_globals.h:124: error: syntax error before `;' token
gl_globals.h:125: error: syntax error before `;' token
gl_globals.h:126: error: syntax error before `;' token
gl_globals.h:127: error: syntax error before `;' token
gl_globals.h:128: error: syntax error before `;' token
make[4]: *** [gl_globals.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vegastrike-20040724/vegastrike/src/gldrv'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vegastrike-20040724/vegastrike/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vegastrike-20040724/vegastrike'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vegastrike-20040724/vegastrike'

A:

• You need the latest version of glext.h to fix the error.
• Get it at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/ABI/glext.h
• Then you probably need to save it in /usr/include/GL/glext.h as root (Make a backup first).
• If there is no glext.h in /usr/include/GL then do a search for it...

find /usr -name glext.h

• After that, gcc will probably have to rebuild most of the vega strike files again because that file changed.
• See also this post in the forum.

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