2024-08-12

Don't test your Linux port only in WSL

A lot of my FarCry work has been on WSL. It's been great having a nearly full Linux development environment that's even capable of running graphical applications at decent speeds without leaving Windows. The rest of your C: drive is also available as a mounted device, giving you access to files there. I already have FarCry installed on Windows, so I chose to save space by symlinking the install directories to my git repo. And it's worked fine - until I started doing work on my Linux laptop, which crashed when loading save games.

Oh right, Linux has a case sensitive filesystem, and save files wrote of the names of levels in a different case than how they are actually named. Doh.

Made a fix that will hopefully last (256 characters is all anyone needs, right?).

This is a plan file, right?

• Port NOLF2 to Linux
  • Fix the bridge explosion crash when escaping Siberia
• Port Far Cry to Linux
  • Handle window change if user is only changing fullscreen setting ✓
  • Commit the movie code
  • Implement ClosePacks ✓
  • Stop making a new OpenAL buffer for the menu music when recreating the window
  • Find out why loading Carrier crashes from a save game but not from the missions menu
• Finish Dominatrix v1.2
  • Make a sensitivity slider that affects gamepads