People ask this again! xD
By the way, I always wondered why would you make it something hard to pronounce, or remember, it wouldn’t attract too many people. But I think I heard somewhere that it’s supposed to be pronounced veece-me?
I already tried that but didnt work… is all Russian.
But another issue: i tried to play in Russian, and i can play the old maps, in RoE, SoD, AB modes, but i cant play a random map, and i cant acces the wogifi options. It just not work, like is no sensible button there.
Since only 0.95 is available in the PPAs for the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (which is supported till 2017), I tried to compile it from source. After getting all the dependencies, updated gcc to 4.8, I get these errors:
/home/calmarius/stuff/source/vcmi/vcmi/lib/filesystem/CFilesystemLoader.cpp: In member function ‘std::unordered_map<ResourceID, boost::filesystem3::path> CFilesystemLoader::listFiles(const string&, size_t, bool) const’:
/home/calmarius/stuff/source/vcmi/vcmi/lib/filesystem/CFilesystemLoader.cpp:130:8: error: ‘preferred_separator’ is not a member of ‘boost::filesystem3::path’
if (bfs::path::preferred_separator != ‘/’)
^
/home/calmarius/stuff/source/vcmi/vcmi/lib/filesystem/CFilesystemLoader.cpp:136:15: error: ‘preferred_separator’ is not a member of ‘boost::filesystem3::path’
if (c != bfs::path::preferred_separator)
^
Maybe the required boost version is too low?
Anyway should I expect a deb for Ubuntu Precise or is it not supported anymore?
EDIT: Boost 1.48 doesn’t have that property in the Path class. It seems the required minimum Boost version is 1.50. README.linux should be updated.
You can call it unsupported. Packages from vanilla Precise are too outdated to compile VCMI. Main reason is that this allows to use new features like C++11 and new features from boost.
And to provide .deb’s for 12.04 we’ll have to provide all dependencies - new gcc, new boost, possibly - new SDL 2.0. And that’s too much work for me.
Will do. Thanks for notice.
“supported” is a stretch. For Canonical support usually means bugfixing. They are not porting back new releases, they are not porting back non-essential bugs, etc. Even with “new” 14.04 I have a few bugs that were fixed but were not backported to 14.04. And I’m talking about kernel/X bugs - part of Ubuntu “supported” by Canonical.
Hello! If you decide to report bugs please find out how to build VCMI from git or use some repository (if there’s any) with newer version. Stable version you currently playing was based on May 8 code so it’s really old already.
Also please post reports on bug tracker: bugs.vcmi.eu/
Then sadly not much we can do, but you likely can install or re-build package for stable from Ubuntu PPA or something. wiki.debian.org/CreatePackageFromPPA
Still keep in mind that if you actually want to play I strongly recommend to use latest development build. Since VCMI is not yet feature complete stable builds is more like a way to show that some important features implemented while in general they a lot less playable due to bugs or missing features that already fixed in git.
PS: Eventually I want to have portable builds with Steam runtime, but at moment it’s just a plan.