Blitz3D open source release!

(MAVLess/FastExt killer/VS2015/OpenAL/whatever else)

You can grab the prebuilt free version of Blitz3d from http://www.blitzbasic.com.

Steps to build:

1. Install the DirectX 7 SDK into same dir as Blitz3D: the folder name should be 'dxsdk'.

2. Install freeimage241 into same dir as Blitz3D: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/downloads/freeimage241.zip

NOTE:

(originally written by Ploppy)

You will need to edit the freeimage.h file and modify the following line (normally should be line #206)

-typedef FIBITMAP *(DLL_CALLCONV * FI_AllocateProc)(int width, int height, int bpp, unsigned red_mask FI_DEFAULT(0), unsigned green_mask FI_DEFAULT(0), unsigned blue_mask FI_DEFAULT(0));
+typedef FIBITMAP *(DLL_CALLCONV * FI_AllocateProc)(int width, int height, int bpp, unsigned red_mask , unsigned green_mask , unsigned blue_mask);

You have to modify this line because the original line of code is not compatible with versions of Visual Studio that are newer than vs6. Changing this line will remove any compile error concerning this bug.

3. Build libogg and libvorbis (for static linking, Release mode), and place them into same dir as Blitz3D: https://xiph.org/

NOTE

You will need to modify ogg/ogg.h and vorbis/vorbisfile.h to manually set the calling convention of each function to __cdecl, as Blitz3D's runtime uses __stdcall and will not link with these libraries unless this is clarified in the source.

4. Open 'blitz3d.sln' in Visual Studio 2015.

5. Build project 'bblaunch' using config 'Win32 Blitz3D Release'.

6. Output files should end up in '_release' subdir.

7. If necessary, copy OpenAL32.dll to '_release/bin'.

8. Done?

Blitz3D is released under the zlib/libpng license.

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