Build script?

[l0b0]

I've packaged the latest DFU Linux binary using Nix. However, building things from source would be preferable for several reasons:

• Security, by relying on the Nix build infrastructure rather than third parties.
• Reproducibility, which is a big part of Nix's popularity.
• Portability, since people can work out how to build on platforms other than the ones for which there are binaries.
• Avoids having to patch library paths to work with the Nix directory structure.
• Might enable building using only open source software, such as unity-builder.

Unfortunately I know virtually nothing about Unity, so I don't have the first clue how to translate the build instructions to a script. If anyone has a Linux build script I'd be really grateful if you could post it.

[pango]

Check viewtopic.php?p=56296#p56296 for a Makefile, and a file to add to the sources to execute a "rebuild addressables" pre-compilation step.
I can't test if everything is still working correctly at the moment, unity version is now 2019.4.40f1, so I'm crossing fingers

P.S. Did a quick check, you need to at least update the Unity Editor path; Say, if it was installed by UnityHub, the default path should be

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unitydir := $(HOME)/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.4.40f1

[pango]

Also, if you're packaging Daggerfall Unity for Linux, I recommend setting TERM=xterm in a wrapper to prevent an exception when loading source-based mods (say Distant Terrain).

The version of Mono embedded by Unity 2019.4.40f1

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~/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.4.40f1/Editor/Data/MonoBleedingEdge/bin ᐅ monop2 --runtime-version mono 
runtime version: 4.0.30319.42000

doesn't know about terminfo2 file format, issue is fixed in 5.12 as far as I understand but I don't think we can't upgrade Mono, for one Unity use custom patched Mono builds.
And setting TERM inside Daggerfall Unity doesn't seem to prevent the exception
viewtopic.php?p=68366#p68366

[l0b0]

Thank you very much! I'll have a look into this when I can.