D/L client or compile from source?
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Jayyall Klaar
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08-14-2007 15:51
Anyone compiling the client from source here?
If so. is there any advantage performance-wise to compiling the source myself or is the downloadable client fairly optimized?
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Osgeld Barmy
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08-14-2007 23:22
the one time i did compile i could not tell a differance
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Boroondas Gupte
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08-15-2007 04:14
I'm compiling from source to be able to test community patches before they go into a released version of the client. If you use the default SConstruct build script to compile, you'll end up with a similarly optimized client as the downloaded one. You are of course free to change it for compiling more optimized versions.
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Katrina Bekkers
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08-18-2007 06:34
I do. I notice some increased smoothness. Maybe it's just self-suggestion. Ah, and the memory footprint is much smaller, and the CPU hogging somewhat limited. I turn off the MOZLIB compilation and, besides the Google PerfTools lib, I use all system libraries, all of them recompiled locally, instead of LL provided libs. That's a side effect of using Gentoo, I presume!  I use -O2, the -march for my machine ("athlon-xp" and strip all the executables and shared objects after compiling them. |
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Jayyall Klaar
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08-18-2007 10:49
Katrina,
Sounds like it may be worth it.
I found this site that seems helpful.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_(Linux)
Is that what you used?
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Katrina Bekkers
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08-19-2007 00:41
Yes, that was the starting point, then I started using (and modifying) Henri's make-SL script, which is extremely useful to learn where to put what, to prepare the source subtree.
On my machine (AthXP 2500, 2 GB) it takes around 2 hours to compile the viewer. As I said, I use recompiled local libs (gtk, SDL, pango, etc.).
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Jayyall Klaar
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08-19-2007 11:08
From: Katrina Bekkers Yes, that was the starting point, then I started using (and modifying) Henri's make-SL script, which is extremely useful to learn where to put what, to prepare the source subtree.
On my machine (AthXP 2500, 2 GB) it takes around 2 hours to compile the viewer. As I said, I use recompiled local libs (gtk, SDL, pango, etc.). Ok, thanks. BTW, are you compiling the 1.18.1.2 or 1.18.2.0 source? |
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Drake Bacon
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08-19-2007 11:48
Where's the "make-SL" script?
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Pho Fizgig
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08-19-2007 14:48
From: Katrina Bekkers Yes, that was the starting point, then I started using (and modifying) Henri's make-SL script, which is extremely useful to learn where to put what, to prepare the source subtree.
On my machine (AthXP 2500, 2 GB) it takes around 2 hours to compile the viewer. As I said, I use recompiled local libs (gtk, SDL, pango, etc.). please share zour script cause the overlay of slviewer 1.18.1.2 and 1.18.2.0 failed to start after successful compiling. |
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Katrina Bekkers
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08-19-2007 15:18
It's not my script, it has been made by Henri Beauchamp.
And it's in the wiki page quoted by Jayyall, near the end.
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Boroondas Gupte
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08-20-2007 07:19
From: Drake Bacon Where's the "make-SL" script? here's a deep-link: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_(Linux)#Automated_libraries_and_headers_adjustments.2C_compilation_and_packaging |
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Drake Bacon
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08-20-2007 19:57
Anyone got it working on a 64-bit rig? Anyone? Zi?
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Asriazh Frye
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08-21-2007 03:43
From: Drake Bacon Anyone got it working on a 64-bit rig? Anyone? Zi? You can compile the source on a 64-bit os, but only if you dont think sound and such isnt important or you use g++32 (to be changed inside the Scons script) and get a 32-bit client. -Asriazh |