Porting Unciv to Haiku

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Hi,

It is possible to port unciv to Haiku.

I see that needs android sdk and somethink more.
Perhaps, someone has startet to port needed tools/software?

Regards lorglas

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I see almost no chance for this getting ported, the Android SDK dependency is not available for Haiku and it is not trivial to get it running on Haiku.

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No it doesn’t.
Unciv runs fine on linux, iirc you need the java opengl stuff for it.

edit: you can try running it with this.
java -jar Unciv.jar

https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/releases/download/4.2.13/Unciv.jar

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Here Building Locally - Unciv it says that you don’t necessarily need Android Studio, take a look at the section “Without Android Studio”. You need JDK11, which is available on Haiku (OpenJDK). So, theoretically it should work.

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I’ve played it on Non-Android Linux. So I can confirm that it doesn’t need Android.

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Fails with unknown platform: Haiku
I’ll see how hard it is to port libGDX to add Haiku support. It appears to need Ant and Mesa, which we have. We’ll see what else.

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what makes you think libgdx is responsible for the error?
in any case, i think i ran unciv on haiku but I am not sure. I can check when I am home unless you got it to run by then : )

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I’m running a newer version of Unciv than earlier. LibGDX is the wrapper for the system APIs that is used in 4.3.4 of Unciv and provides the graphics and sound. The reason I think libGDX is responsible for this error is that it was in the stacktrace of the .JAR file.

Edit

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.LinkageError: Unknown platform: Haiku
        at org.lwjgl.system.Platform.<clinit>(Platform.java:91)
        at org.lwjgl.system.Library.<clinit>(Library.java:33)
        at org.lwjgl.system.MemoryUtil.<clinit>(MemoryUtil.java:100)
        at org.lwjgl.system.Pointer$Default.<clinit>(Pointer.java:67)
        at org.lwjgl.system.Callback.<clinit>(Callback.java:40)
        at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.initializeGlfw(Lwjgl3Application.java:84)
        at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.<init>(Lwjgl3Application.java:138)
        at com.unciv.app.desktop.DesktopLauncher.main(DesktopLauncher.kt:84)

Maybe it’s not GDX but if it isn’t it’s lwjgl3 instead.

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