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foul_owl:
Now that Half Life 2 is Linux native, has anyone managed to get GE:S working in Linux?
I tried running the installer from wine, then copying the gesource directory from where it installed into the correct path. It shows up in Steam, but when I attempt to launch it, nothing happens. No errors through the terminal either. It's possible there are some error logs for Steam that I could check as well, so I'll go ahead and do that.
Do the devs plan on making a Linux native installer? Is GE:S an open source project?
Jonathon [SSL]:
Ever since around 2010 Valve stopped caring about modders in favor of hats. This means that we haven't gotten any updates to the SDK in forever, meaning we don't have access to anything cool like Mac/Linux source code. This means we can't bring GES to any other platforms at the moment.
In order to do GES via WINE, the entire steam client and Source SDK Base have to be running through WINE (which is a pain in the butt). Since GES is only compiled for Windows, it won't run on Linux Steam.
foul_owl:
Understood. So basically what you need to get this going is a Linux version of the SDK? I can at least start bugging Valve about that. It's possible they do care a bit, since they have released HL2 (etc) as Linux native. ;D
(BTW, just to clarify, I only ran the GES installer in Wine, I thought that just getting the folder out of the installer and copying it into appropriate source directory would be enough to get GES going, but I understand now that mods have to compiled for a specific platform)
Anyway, this mod is amazing, so cheers to you! Hopefully we will eventually get to see a Linux native version. :)
foul_owl:
Sounds like Valve is planning on releasing a Linux native version of the SDK :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNrrpnPlBrk&t=24m09s
So I guess it's just a matter of time now!
Is GES open source?
major:
It sounds like SDK 2006 won't see Linux from that video. L4D2 uses 2007 I believe. But, time will tell.
Currently some small elements of GE:S are open source.
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