iOS/android

[legendarysnake]

Does enigma compile for iOS and android?

[time-killer-games]

Nope. While it is planned I don't think anyone can promise it being released whether broken or stable within the next decade or so. In other words it probably won't happen. However you can make for Linux free-of-charge, while in YYG terms is worth $200 normally (GMStudio Pro + the Linux module). Mac is completely broken, so all there is or ever will be is Windows (NOT counting native Windows 8) and Linux.

[Darkstar2]

Agreed with TKG.

I would like to add also there would need some changes to ENIGMA to be done first before it can compile to IOS/Android and make app store compliant files.  They will have to do like YYG and deprecate some functions and make some minor some major changes to restrict enigma to comply with security requirements of said app store, but where YYG fucked up is they also removed those features for windows users fucking them in the ass in the process!

I really hope if ENIGMA does one day have multi exports, that it will not go crazy shit and do like YYG did and break windows export.   Hopefully they can keep all those goodies intact and only restrict for other exports.

That would probably require some time.

It's one thing to make android export, it's another to make app store ready exports, which GMS does ATM.

When they decided to allegedly rip off their  customers with a $300 something that should have been done since version 1 of GMS, FREE, the LEAST they could have done is bring back the removed functions that were useful to some of us motherfuckers who can't make our own extensions

Now they are going towards console support, and still have no video playback functions, what a fucking shame !   a BASIC function you'd think is included in the shittiest of gm tool / RAD !   

So I would hope ENIGMA would learn from this and keep this in mind when/if it starts offering multi exports. 

Wonder if they will get YYG's "wee-Lawyers" on their backs at that point, if they offer IOS/Android, on something that is very compatible and highly similar (interface, etc.)  you can argue all you want, but Lawyers always find something .....

[Goombert]

Mac was not broken until I came along, I wanted to clean up the platform code and remove duplicate code, and I have, and we now have Linux working fine, I just fixed working_directory and "Freeze on lose focus" for the platform too. The only problem is I don't have a Mac, and rarely do people show up and try to build for it, if one person could just hang in long enough for us to make it all the way through the process, that would be awesome.

They will have to do like YYG and deprecate some functions and make some minor some major changes to restrict enigma to comply with security requirements of said app store

No we don't need to do that, ENIGMA's entire system is extremely extensible you can just turn off the code which doesn't fit the requirement of a particular app store. That doesn't mean we remove it all together.

[Darkstar2]

No we don't need to do that, ENIGMA's entire system is extremely extensible you can just turn off the code which doesn't fit the requirement of a particular app store. That doesn't mean we remove it all together.

Well there you go, now that's great news.  FREE software doing it right where an expensive over priced product doesn't, and should have been that way from the beginning.  Also if not mistaken you would need GLES for those exports right? <

[legendarysnake]

But enigma support a 3rd party android compiler right?

[Goombert]

GLES is OpenGL for Embedded Systems, it is the biggest requirement for getting Android/iOS/JavaScript ports. GLES and WebGL basically fit the spec for OGL 3 1 to 1, that is why Harri started removing the FFP from OGL3. Now when we make a JavaScript port of ENIGMA, it will most likely be an entirely different repository, and an entirely different set up. This is the current repository for the JavaScript port.
https://github.com/enigma-dev/ENIGMAjs

[TheExDeus]

The big changes with GL3 made it a lot easier to support it in the future (as GLES is a lot closer to GL3 than it is to GL1), but we just don't have the manpower to do it now.

Mac is completely broken

Those fixes should be quite trivial. Mac in essence is Linux. If you support one you support the other. So the thing broke because we don't have Mac developers or even a lot of Mac users, so testing on that platform is rarely done. But Windows, Linux and Mac should be the three platforms ENIGMA runs on always. And we can technically guarantee that.

[legendarysnake]

i have installed android sdk/ndk on my windows
how i setup enigma now?
i don't know

[TheExDeus]

You can't. It's not only about Android SDK/NDK but our code as well. The graphics system Android uses is GLES (GL for Embeded Systems) and that is a graphics system that is not done for ENIGMA right now. We would also need to code platform code like windowing and IO (even though with "windows" I mean something different in Android). On top of that we would need custom functions just to return multi-touch, work with Android interrupts and so on. So there are additions needed to ENIGMA's code and Android NDK cannot compile any C++ to Android.

[legendarysnake]

Anyway the application is great, congratulations to all who helped with the project.

[Facet]

I found Android/Enigma tutorial here http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Android Can you update wiki site if it not working with Enigma? I am confused a little It can be great tool to create Android games!

[daz]

I found Android/Enigma tutorial here http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Android Can you update wiki site if it not working with Enigma? I am confused a little It can be great tool to create Android games!

It is mentioned in the first line of "Getting it to Work".

This process has only been tested for the Ubuntu Operating System and revision r870, and I have not been able to get it to fully compile yet. Some reports indicate that this process may have broken in more recent revisions (r973).

Although quite honestly I think that at this point everyone agrees it is completely broken, so that should probably be changed to indicate as much.