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Installing and Compiling Vegastrike.
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1 What are the minimum system requirements for Vegastrike?
2 I get a message "The application failed to run because of an incorrect configuration, reinstalling may fix this problem"
3 Does the source code work with VC++ 6.0 or 7.0?
4 How do I turn fullscreen on or off in Vegastrike?
5 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?
6 When compiling VS I get a glXGetProcAddress or glXGetProcAddressARB error.
7 When compiling VS I get a ./depcomp: No such file or directory error.
8 Which video cards are known to work (or not to) with Vegastrike?
- 8.1 Working
- 8.2 Not Working
9 I'm getting similar errors as shown below when trying to compile today's cvs version, What about that?
10 After installing with the Linux Binary installer, I get an error about libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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:

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:

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

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://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/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 X1600 Mobility Linux/OS X (MacBook Pro, using proprietary video drivers in Linux)

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

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.

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.

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What are the minimum system requirements for Vegastrike?

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

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

How do I turn fullscreen on or off in Vegastrike?

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?

When compiling VS I get a `glXGetProcAddress` or `glXGetProcAddressARB` error.

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

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

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

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

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What are the minimum system requirements for Vegastrike?

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

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

How do I turn fullscreen on or off in Vegastrike?

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?

When compiling VS I get a glXGetProcAddress or glXGetProcAddressARB error.

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

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

Working

Not Working

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

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

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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?

When compiling VS I get a `glXGetProcAddress` or `glXGetProcAddressARB` error.

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