ENIGMA Development Environment

did not try compiling it, but assuming it won't compile because of the 2 returns, but again I can be wrong on that one.....Been a windows user forever and never had any problem.  Done film, video, audio visual production, mutlimedia both hobby and professionally and never had issue. but again this is not a linux vs. windows debate really let's leave that for another topic

Not being an expert on C++ and since Lazarus helps you a lot with memory management, not sure of what I'm about to say but here it goes:

You can have as many returns as you like, your functions need to return a value and your procedures return an int to check if they worked correctly (at least on pascal they do), but even on C++ you can have more than one return if you need it, to check that something did x or y you can then pass the integer for error management, I think.

I don't know how to explain it, hope you can understand it, because I managed to not understand what I just wrote.

About the Windows vs Linux, just name the hour the place and I get to choose the weapons  (Beer and steaks okey with you?)

As to what your read, yes you have to free memory yourself to avoid memory leak within your app, memory not freed could be potential memory for other process/applications running, and you avoid the risk of stability/crashing or running out of memory, that is what they probably mean by that......as some would for example allocate new memory in a function but exit function without freeing it (creating a leak) etc.

I'll be using memory allocation (more likely dynamic allocation) for some of the stuff I have planned with my resource packer / reader and some of the stuff I will add to ENIGMA soon, hopefully if I have some time,

Dynamic allocation on C++? Is that possible?

I am not going to open another topic,  but I have a slightly O/T question

it concerns dynamic memory allocation,

what happens if you use NEW but don't use DELETE and you exit your program.  Will the OS automatically free any memory allocated by your CPP, or will the memory not be freed.

Let's say for example

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char* resMem = new char[5000];

What happens if I let the program exit or forcibly exit and don't use delete ? Will 5000 bytes of RAM be lost in space unless I restart windows or use a RAM freeing tool or will the OS automatically free it upon exit ?

Again this is a question out of curiosity, as I know better than to not free RAM I allocate

2) (yes it's a 2 part question).   What's the command so I find out HOW MUCH RAM was allocated ?  In the example above I know that 5000 bytes were allocated as char = 1 byte, right ?  for an int it would have been 4 * 5000, etc.  so how do I find out, in the example above, how much RAM was allocated.

Thanks

and eds don't worry about it, I was wondering why my code was modified was afraid maybe I switched to a parallel universe

Memory allocation... No idea how that works... Do you eat it with a fork? 

No problem Ds2, copy paste was the easiest way and I did'nt check for consistency with your code, and I should have, it is good practice to do so. 

Write a custom terminal emulator that, upon printing a character, deletes the entire content of the terminal by filling it with spaces, then re-prints everything, including the new character. That might get it to be as slow. Probably not worth the effort, though.

Disclaimer: Not implying that's what Windows does. I can't conceive of why the Windows command prompt is that damn slow. Especially since it takes so many disgusting shortcuts.

Damn I'm glad I started using Linux before trying to relearn to program.

Don't know why it happens to you, I tried it and I see no delay 

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{

int x = 0;

{
    cout << "-Options-" << endl;
    cout << "1. Pack with encryption" << endl;
    cout << "2. Pack without encryption" << endl;
    cin >> x;
    return 0;
}
   
getchar();

return 0;

}


I'm not sure, what I mean is you press tab and the selected text is indented two spaces.

Now I understand, that is what I proposed when said you could imitate SPE, that is exactly what that IDE does.

I am working on a lot of projects now, but this one is on the top of my priority list for the time being. This game will be a anime/chibi art-styled platformer. You'll unlock quite a selection of characters. However kimi is the one you start off with. This is what she'll look like in the title screen & character selector:



Which obviously isn't Chibi, it's "regular" anime. But in the actual gameplay to make the art easier to produce, what with all the animation and stuff, she'll be in her chibi form. Google image "chibi" if you are confused. Please note the artwork above isn't finished, I have a lot to do with it still, a better, less-clunky layout and a background scene. The artwork you see right now as well as everything to come in this topic I did from scratch and is my property.

Boobs.

Will she show any?

Just in case you do want to install it:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto

http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

Those are tutorials for apt-pinning, in short it lets you install what you want from a newer version, a newer library could very well break your system so it's for people that kow what they are doing (I have never done it) I would advise you to investigate what else is afected by the library in order to be able to judge if it's worth the risk. To do so install any version you have in the repos via synaptic and take notice of what -if anything- else is installed, if the library is already installed try to uninstall it via synaptic (Just mark to uninstall completely but do not finish the operation) it will give you a list of stuff that uses it, then you can see what may be fucked by the library change.

Introduction - Why I Chose Portable Ubuntu

I'm using Portable Ubuntu to test my games made with GMStudio. It's basically the same thing as running Ubuntu inside a Virtual Box, but it's much easier to install and to work with when switching between Windows and Ubuntu plus it runs with literally zero lag, whereas in Virtual Box I can't test my Ubuntu games at all due to running at 1 frame per second.

Why in the name of the FSM (Blessed be his noodled apendage) would you do that?

I understand the easinnes of use and the increased speed over a virtual box, and even the convenience of not having to reboot, but still...

The Problem - Portable Ubuntu is Outdated

The only downside to it, it hasn't been updated since 2011 if I remember right, and that means it will only run Ubuntu 10.4 or older. GMStudio games in theory should work, though it is targeted for only Ubuntu 12.10 or later, there still might be hope. This is the absolute best way to run Ubuntu within and beside an existing Windows OS, I'd hate to ignore it given the possibility it might still run my games with a couple small tweaks.

In theory they should not work, different libraries man...

The Possible Solution - Installing *.SO Libraries

So I run my game by double clicking the Linux App, nothing appears. To investigate I try opening the game in the terminal. This error appears

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pubuntu@pubuntu:~$ /home/pubuntu/Desktop/GAMES/RMWP/RMWP
/home/pubuntu/Desktop/GAMES/RMWP/RMWP: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So to fix this I install ENIGMA's dependencies since that includes "libopenal.so.1"

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sudo apt-get install g++ zlib1g-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libalure-dev libvorbisfile3 libvorbis-dev libdumb1-dev
Which is great because that fixed the issue. But here's a new issue that now I'm stuck at:

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pubuntu@pubuntu:~$ /home/pubuntu/Desktop/GAMES/RMWP/RMWP
/home/pubuntu/Desktop/GAMES/RMWP/RMWP: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Very good you are in your way to become a linux jedi my little padawan 

Conclusion - Need Some Assistance (Please?)

I've Google'd for 6+ hours attempting to install through the terminal or any other way possible "libssl.so.1.0.0.0" which appears to be available nowhere on the internet. I tried this in the terminal

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sudo apt-get update
apt-cache policy libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
It installed "libssl.so", but I don't need that, I need "libssl.so.1.0.0". I also tried many variations of something like this

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sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev
But everything I tried brought no expected results. Please help! I'm documenting everthing I do with this so I can make a tutorial for someone who isn't banned to post for me on the GMC on how to make your GMS games run in Portable Ubuntu with minimal setup hassle. It could be a major benefit to all Ubuntu GM users everywhere.

Everything well done but...

In the repositories you'll find only libraries that are in use in the current distribution

You could find the library on the web with a lot of hard work and some luck but...

It most likely would do you no good because...

libssl is a cryptography library it is to encript/decript stuff, if for some reason you need one version you need that version and not other, and besides...

Even if you did find it and managed to install it as a .deb it would most likely blow your portable ubuntu to smiterens 

Your only hope would be to find it as source code, and then to compile it by hand for your system, and even then it might interfere with something else...

One of the reasons there's no dll hell on linux it's the management of shared libraries, if you install one instead of another you might make one application work while at the same time fucking up something else, even the whole system is at risk.

And you can't use the repos since they more than likely are no longer on line for the ubuntu version you need 

Thanks.
Boobs

You're welcome, don't despair, we'll think of something.