[ODE] coldet and ode

[Frank C.]

Thanks pointing that out. Still a bit of work to get it going on my 
Mac, but I'm guessing a unix-style OSX build won't be much of a stretch 
(Classic/Carbon compatibility is another beast...)

Frank.
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On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 05:21  PM, Pierre Terdiman wrote:

>> I'd personally give Opcode a shot if it was more portable. (There
>> doesn't seem to be an ANSI C/C++ target in the source).
>
> Well, various people ported it to Linux and made it "more portable". 
> On top
> of my head : in the F4 engine, in The Nebula Device, in Crystal Space, 
> in
> ... ODE... Some more people sent me tar.gz files with makefiles and 
> required
> changes to build Opcode "elsewhere".
>
> I don't know if they work well since I have a Windows box, period, but 
> I can
> upload such an archive if ...  Hell, let's just do it, wait 5 mn.
>
> ...
>
> Ok, done, uploaded Linux port : www.codercorner.com/Opcode.htm
>
> Words from the author :
>
> "This version is indeed different than those contained in F4 or ODE
> because it is only a direct linux port of version 1.2 of OPCODE, it
> contains nothing more, nothing less so a user does not have to deal 
> with
> F4 or ODE. It is also accompanied with a so called configure script
> which automatically creates a makefile for the user's specific 
> platform.
> It's just a question of running the configure script and automake and
> OPCODE is build for your platform (e.g. linux, solaris, irix etc). This
> is the correct way on unix flavoured oss to spread software."
>
> Questions about it ? Ask the author, please. (his mail is in the tar 
> file)
>
>> Opcode looks heavily biased towards Win32 (lots of x86 ASM VC++ stuff
>> in the mix) whereas ColDet compiles on just about anything, without
>> modification.
>
> Note that there's a #define to discard the ASM, and the only relevant 
> VC++
> stuff, as far as Opcode is concerned, is "__forceinline".
>
> Pierre
>
>
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