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Please provide source tarballs

In the download section there alawys are links to binaries and paks.

This is probably what the average Windows or Mac user needs. The situation could be better for the rest. Please provide source tarballs corresponding to the releases. E.g. the linux binary releases are mostly useless, since they depend on particular library versions, architectures, etc.

Philipp
 

Re: Please provide source tarballs

Reply #1 –
The linux binaries are based on the the "Linux Standard Base" using GCC 3.4.3 and 32 bit (since 64 is not well suited for simutrans). For all other OS standard download on SF is the zip with the sources.

Re: Please provide source tarballs

Reply #2 –
Well, I run a 64 bit Linux, so the standard download doesn't work for me. And I suppose that's a common problem (mybe more common than running other kernels or more exotic architextures).
It would be convenient if the source tarballs corresponding to the releases were listed in those posts announcing releases.

Philipp

P.S.: What do you mean by 64 bit not being well-suited for simutrans? Is it not 64-bit clean and won't work when compiled on a 64-bit architecture? Or just the minor annoyance of wasting some RAM bits on larger pointers without a real benefit?

Re: Please provide source tarballs

Reply #3 –
Wasting Ram and CPU without benefit. And cannot use the ****embler routines for displaying, at least on an intel 32 architecture.

(On PowerPC linux, this would not help anyway ... ) But for Debian and many other linux there is a fairly recent, adapted version out, thus installing via the distributions is a better choice.