[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/9084 Move the building of .deb files from the 32-bit only section to the 64-b

[James Paige]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 27 July 2017 at 02:19, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 26 July 2017 at 10:11, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
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>>>> james
>>>> 2017-07-25 15:11:35 -0700 (Tue, 25 Jul 2017)
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>>>> Move the building of .deb files from the 32-bit only section to the
>>>> 64-bit only section
>>>> ---
>>>> U   wip/distrib.sh
>>>>
>>>> I'm baffled by this and the related changes. You're going from building
>>> .deb packages only for 32-bit machines to only building them from 64-bit
>>> machines? Why?
>>>
>>
>> Its temporary, actually.
>>
>> I did some quick googling about current usage numbers and found that over
>> 90% of Ubuntu installs are 64 bit, vs less than 10% 32 bit
>>
>> So I figured supporting 64 bit .deb files was the priority.
>>
>> I do plan to add an option to linux/ohrrpgce.py for building 32 bit also,
>> I just wanted to get the most important thing done first.
>>
>
> Ah, makes sense. 90% vs 10% surprised me, but I guess 64 bit PCs and large
> memories have been around for a long time now
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For Ubuntu it was 92% - 8% as of last year

I just looked up Debian's here: http://popcon.debian.org/ At first I
thought "Oh! That looks like about 55%-45%" ... then I saw the curve of the
scale numbers next to the graph, So actually it is about 82%-18% for Debian.


> I guess that in that case, it may not be worth the effort to have an
> option in the Distribute menu to produce universal 32+64bit tarballs.
> Packaging sdl and sdl_mixer libraries into tarballs would be a higher
> priority. (Unfortunately I don't know what to do about MIDI instruments...)
>
>

I agree. sdl libraries does seem way more important.

The MIDI thing reminds me--

It might not be crazy to have a distribute-game option that re-renders all
the midi files into .ogg files at export time if you have timidity
installed.

That wouldn't be an appropriate default, but it might be a cool option to
have available.





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>>> Also, I totally forgot about hspeak. About time I looked into that..
>>>
>>> You can download a linux-x64 build of Euphoria 4.1.0 here:
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/rapideuphoria/files/Euphori
>>> a/4.1.0-beta2/
>>> It's not the latest version (they haven't provided 64-bit downloads for
>>> the latest), but it's pretty recent.
>>> Because I have Euphoria 4.0.3 installed system wide, I had to put this
>>> in my path and set $EUDIR to get it to compile. I don't know if EUDIR is
>>> necessary otherwise.
>>>
>>> I tested that the resulting hspeak works, producing byte-for-byte
>>> identical files.
>>> Interestingly, hspeak compiled with Eu 4.1.0 64 bit is faster than Eu
>>> 4.0.3 32 bit: 48.88 seconds instead of 76.69 seconds to compile
>>> Entrepreneur.
>>> Note that I think there are some Eu 4.1 features I'd like to use (though
>>> I can't remember them), so would like to switch to it anyway.
>>>
>>>
>> Ah, very nice. I'll try that out.
>>
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>> By the way, the 64-bit deb that I built is not ready to use yet.
>>
>> When I tested installing it on a pristine Debian VM, it installed just
>> fine, and ohrrpgce-custom seemed to work just fine.
>>
>> I then tested ohrrpgce-game and it was crashing with a null pointer in
>> one of the _setoption functions (I'll grab the exact error message later)
>>
>
> Oh, I know what that was. It was a bug I already fixed in r9082. It only
> crashed when passing commandline flags (e.g. when using gdbgame.sh).
>

Aha! mystery solved. I just happened to be using an unlucky revision number
when I was testing yesterday :)


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>> I was able to reproduce this once outside of the vm, but then after
>> another recompile, I couldn't get it to happen again, and I ran out of time
>> to track down what was happening. I'll look at it again today.
>>
>> I also want to fix the Distribute Game menu to package the game's .deb
>> file for 64 bit, but before I do that I am going to deprecate
>> ohrrpgce-player-linux-bin-minimal.zip for future versions and replace it
>> with ohrrpgce-player-linux-bin-32bit-minimal.zip and
>> ohrrpgce-player-linux-bin-64bit-minimal.zip
>>
>
>> ---
>> James
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