[Nix-dev] ioquake3 on nixos

[Máté Kovács]

Hi all,

Building Nikolay's script fails on my NixOS with:
error: attribute ‘quake3wrapper’ missing, at /home/mate/q3/default.nix:11:4

Is quake3wrapper not available yet?
(I have the nixos-unstable-small channel added.)

Thanks,
Mate

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:29 AM Nikolay Amiantov <ab at fmap.me> wrote:

> I play ioquake3 successfully. It needs the following to work:
>
> 1. Extract pak0.pk3 file from the original Quake 3 Arena.
> 2. Use Nix script like this:
>
> { nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:
>
> let
>   paks = nixpkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
>     name = "quake3-arena";
>     pak0 = ./baseq3/pak0.pk3; # Replace this with path to your file
>     buildCommand = ''
>       install -D -m644 $pak0 $out/baseq3/pak0.pk3;
>     '';
>   };
> in nixpkgs.quake3wrapper {
>   paks = [ paks nixpkgs.quake3pointrelease ];
> }
>
> 3. Run `nix-build` on it: `nix-build script.nix`
> 4. `result/bin/quake3` would run the game.
>
> This probably needs to be added to our manual and/or improved somehow.
>
> For the development, however, you can just run `nix-shell` as advised by
> Emery -- it would get you all the game dependencies, so you can use
> conventional tools (make/cmake/gcc/whatever ioquake3 wants) inside the
> shell.
>
> On 04/08/2016 11:17 AM, Emery wrote:
> > If you could get ioquake working well, I and I'm sure a few others
> > would be grateful.
> >
> > If ioquake is an engine, I would recommend keeping the engine in one
> > package. If you can find game data that can be downloaded easily, that
> > can be a second package that depends on ioquake, so you could install a
> > wrapper script that combines the nix path of the engine with the nix
> > path of the game data. Just make sure you attach the proper license to
> > the data.
> >
> > As for developing, you can clone the ioquake sources and get a shell
> > that contains the dependencies from the package with:
> >   nix-shell '<nixpkgs' -A ioquake
> >
> > If you want to use a locally modified ioquake package, use:
> >   nix-shell /path/to/local/nixpkgs -A ioquake
> >
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Emery
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 05:27:04AM +0000, Máté Kovács wrote:
> >> Hi Nixers,
> >>
> >> I'd like to play (and develop) ioquake3 on NixOS.
> >>
> >> I see that it should be available in nixpkgs, based on
> >>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/7fc7502db516a54d8104656401f0c2abf90cf781
> >> .
> >>
> >> I have ioquake3 installed, but I don't know where to go from here.
> >> I know that I need to copy the original game data to some location to be
> >> able to play the game.
> >> What do I need to do next?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mate
>
> --
> Nikolay.
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