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OpenArena Contributions => Development => Topic started by: fromhell on July 01, 2019, 04:23:02 PM



Title: Compiling OpenArena for Windows 95/98
Post by: fromhell on July 01, 2019, 04:23:02 PM
It's slightly more involved than the usual .  It involves this repository (https://github.com/OpenArena/engine) because it fixed a few W9X regressions.

1. Get Mingw32 / GCC 4.7.2
(I forget the links to get all the necessary packages for this particular version, LATER GCCS WILL NOT WORK)

2.  Take the wspiapi.h header from the ReactOS project, place into code/qcommon
2a. Install or compile the dependencies/headers if you haven't already (SDL1.2, OpenALSoft, XMP, Ogg/Vorbis etc). (I urge compiling because the binary releases have blindly regressed Win9x.)

3. Make


Title: Re: Compiling OpenArena for Windows 95/98
Post by: MysteriousLinux on July 26, 2019, 10:31:24 PM
That's awesome you can still play this game on a PC with 98! Going to have to get a new (old?) 98 rig to try this out sometime.  8)