I Think I Broke It

I decided to make some fundamental changes to the underlying way in which the Wildcat kernel interacts with OpenGL.  On the plus side it will make things much cleaner and clearer moving forward.  On the minus side: a) there is still much work to be done to get this working on any platform, and b) while it is in a running state on the OS X side, the Win32/WX side is quite horribly broken.

While I have not tried compiling the WX project, I can save you some time.  I am oh so certain that I broke many things all over the place.  I hope to wrap up the OS X work tomorrow and start working on the WX code just after that.  The downside is that I have a trip planned from Wednesday through Monday, so if I don't resurrect things by the time I leave it will be broken through at least the weekend.  Sorry!

I will try my best to post an update tomorrow.

G

Platforms and Installers

Last night I decided for some crazy reason that I wanted to get the PPC/Tiger version up and running.  So I spent a couple of hours and figured out three things.  First, the Accelerate framework for Mac makes major use of the SSE2 instruction set.  So I had to work around this with a couple of better crafted #ifdefs.  Second, the Tiger version of glext.h is missing two of the extensions I make use of for some of the high-end generation routines (GL_EXT_transform_feedback and GL_EXT_geometry_shader4).  Again, a couple of good #ifdefs seem to have taken care of this.  Finally, there must have been a couple of 32-bit to 64-bit changes going from Tiger to Leopard that I was not aware of since I still have a few issues left with the GUI calls.  I hope to clear this up tonight and get everything compiling for 32-bit and PPC and Tiger.  Weeeee!

Also, I took a look at InnoSetup for creating a good Windows installer.  What a massive improvement over deployment projects within Visual Studio.  Way way way way way way better.  I have an installer mostly done and just need to wrap up two things.  First, I need a good stable version of Wildcat that is worthy of a binary distribution.  Second, I need to determine exactly what .dll's need to be distributed with the app.  Mostly these will be VS run-time files.  I should have this done later this week.

Tomorrow I hope to finish up with CCI and CLI and begin moving on to SLI, SCI, and SSI.  I also need to fix up trim surface generation.  That is still very broken.  Blah.

Cheers,

   Graham