Linux compatability

[Stew-rt]

There are two issues that make the git package not run on Linux (at least on my system).

• I can't (for the life of me) get the GLSL libtcod renderer working - so I switched to RENDERER_SDL (which worked fine) - would it be possible to have RENDERER as a global variable?
• the libtcodpy library folder conflicts with my locally installed libtcodpy - which does not have libtcod.so library, causing an exception. If I change the foldername libtcodpy to libtcodpy_local and add the following code, it loads fine:

if os.name != 'posix':
    import libtcodpy_local as libtcod
else:
    import libtcodpy as libtcod

If deemed an acceptable change, I can make the above changes to allow Linux support to work "out of the box" and build an AUR package.

[sudasana]

Both of those changes are fine with me! I can make the renderer automatically default to SDL if it detects as Linux OS.

[Stew-rt]

Great - I'll try to get enough work done to send you a pull request over the weekend.
Thanks

[sudasana]

I've added the default to SDL for linux OS to the master branch:

cf0693b

[wart-github]

Tried this on my archlinux machine this evening. python armcom2.py loads the main screen. I can adjust options. But when I hit 'N' it bails with:
Starting Armoured Commander II version 0.4.0
Current keyboard layout: QWERTY
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "armcom2.py", line 9673, in
result = campaign.CampaignSelectionMenu()
File "armcom2.py", line 581, in CampaignSelectionMenu
campaign_list = sorted(campaign_list, key = lambda x : (x['start_date']['year'],
File "armcom2.py", line 581, in
campaign_list = sorted(campaign_list, key = lambda x : (x['start_date']['year'],
TypeError: string indices must be integers

Will be able to look closer tomorrow...

[wart-github]

Great stuff!

Managed to get the very latest version (pulled today) to work. I had to do a few things to get it to work under linux (archlinux).

(1) I had to install precisely libtcod 1.6.5 --- newer versions throw errors.
(2) I had to copy /usr/lib/libtcod*.so.* into libtcodpy_local/
(3) I had to modify xp_loader.py per the diff below (basically, add an if check for 'linux').

from sys import platform
if platform == 'darwin':
import tcod as libtcod
elif platform == 'linux':
import libtcodpy_local as libtcod
else:
import libtcodpy as libtcod
import binascii

[sudasana]

Thanks for the info; I can modify xploader but I don't have access to the /usr/lib/libtcod*.so.* files; can you submit a pull request to add them to libtcodpy_local/ ?

[wart-github]

I'd just add to README (which was in the README for libtcodpy anyway) to cp the libtcod so files to that directory, since those are linked files.

[sudasana]

Sounds good!

[sudasana]

I've added these instructions to readme.md, so I'm going to mark this issue as closed for now.