Woo-hoo! My SecondLife patches have been committed! Linux/PowerPC build available!

So as I have blogged previously, i’ve been hacking on SecondLife to get non-x86/64 platforms supported on Linux.

I got in contact with the guys from OpenSecondLife and with some discussion and testing, got my changes committed into head SVN. Yay!

If your interested in the PowerPC binaries for Linux you can get them here.

OpenSecondLife is facing a few issues though - the OpenJPEG library that is used for JPEG2000 encoding/decoding in the source code we obtained from Linden Labs (ala creators of SecondLife) is really, really slow - official secondlife builds use a closed source blob with restrictions on distribution.

If your a crazy C programmer or a company that could give us a better library, come online to irc.efnet.org #opensl-dev - we need your love.

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  1. sam Says: January 20th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

    if you get

    bin/do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxmlrpc.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    when trying to run it on ubuntu try
    sudo apt-get install libxmlrpc-c0
    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libxmlrpc.so.3 /usr/lib/libxmlrpc.so.0

  • benh Says: January 21st, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    do you have build instructions ? I’m checking out the opensl SVN as I write but it looks like a fairly huge bit of software and I can’t find any Makefile or such :-)

  • James William Dumay Says: January 22nd, 2007 at 9:15 am

    Hey Ben, ill promise to stick some build instructions up tonight or tomorrow (and then put those up on the opensecondlife.org wiki!)

    As for a Makefile, you need to use SCons to build it .

    As its a huge bit of software I made it support CCache! With build times like Xorg (and a crappy 800mhz G4 like mine) its really useful!

  • i386’s Chicken Soup Of Pain Says: January 24th, 2007 at 9:01 am

    [...] There is also a fat NDA involved so your not allowed to speak about the specifics of API’s etc Anyway I can get around this? How can I publish this game in an open way? Is the PlayStation developers program more inclusive to what I’m intending todo? What is the cost in getting the development platform for either systems? To those who were asking in the comments of one of my previous posts - I’m currently working on some build scripts to make building SecondLife on Linux a lot easier, especially for those who are building on architectures not x86 or PowerPC. [...]

  • robmyers » links for 2007-01-25 Says: January 26th, 2007 at 9:27 am

    [...] i386’s Chicken Soup Of Pain “If your interested in the PowerPC binaries for Linux you can get them here” (tags: second-life free-software powerpc linux) [...]

  • Rob Myers Says: February 16th, 2007 at 2:39 am

    Hi.

    Have you got any further with the build instructions? The binaries don’t work on my Debian system and I’m having trouble making head or tail of the build process.

    Thanks for your good work on this.

  • Brian DeRocher Says: May 25th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    James, I’ve been looking around for the build instructions for SecondLife on powerpc-linux, but can’t find anything. Am i missing something?

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