PiFighter! Bitfighter on RaspberryPi

Howdy!

I have successfully built and ran Bitfighter server and client on the RaspberryPi. The client is really slow because the only way to run the client is using Mesa3d, but when SDL2 will work on the Raspberry Pi, I'll try to make the client work "normally". Bitfighter server runs awesome though.

So, if you have a RaspberryPi and you want to run Bitfighter on it, post in the comments!

By the way kaen and raptor did the work of helping me build and run Bitfighter.

[watusimoto]

Great! Did you have to modify the code to get it to build/run?

No! But the client uses Mesa3d Utils, so it's slow RaspberryPi only supports GLES :/

[raptor]

Fordcars, I think SDL2 recently fixed GLES detection for RaspPi. You might want to try to compile the latest SDL2 for it. Then you can compile the most recent bitfighter with the cmake flag -DUSE_GLES=1 and see how that works...

Isn't bitfighter SDL1?

[raptor]

It only uses SDL 1.2 on Linux. And I've already changed the code in Linux to look for SDL2 first (if it's installed properly). So... it uses both! But mostly SDL2.

Great!!!!

Can someone post instructions on how to compile bitfighter with sdl2 on raspberry pi? sorry, I am not very good at compiling stuff.

Sure! I'll make a Wiki page

Here: http://bitfighter.org/wiki/index.php/Building_on_Raspberry_Pi

Happy Coding!

[watusimoto]

Awesome! Great entry! Thanks for writing it!

Thanks!

So does this mean I should buy a Raspberry now?
Im half joking, half serious

Totally

Thanks so much for the tutorial

You're welcome If you have any problems, post here!

So how can I compile it so I can play on raspberry pi?

Not yet sadly, you can easily host a server, but Bifighter needs to be ported to OpenGLES 2 for anything to show up on the screen :/

Not yet sadly, you can easily host a server, but Bifighter still needs some work to be ported to OpenGLES 2 for anything to show up on the screen :/

When do you think that will happen

I don't know, probably in a couple of versions :/