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Thats the problem Dwarf Fortress in Arch Linux comes as a package in the official repos.  I could ask them to change the package permissions but ideally they would like df game saves in home aswell.  As it happens I do symlink the data folder to a place in my home so it gets in my backups.

The place it should really go I guess if here.  It should really be written to the path stored in this variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

Information here http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

I guess windows has some equivelent that by default goes to X:\Documents and settings\USERNAME\etc\etc  (<-- Going from memory haven't used windows for ages)

I can see the advantage of keeping it in the df bundle especially for the devs as release cycles are so frequent and for windows users, altho if I used windows I would personally still move the folder to Program Files, no doubt this would cause me problems with permissions again.

The build system can tell from my PKGBUILD which dependencies it needs by asking the host what architecture they are running.  I can't test 64 bit but I shall no doubt have some feedback soon.

Ok, have worked out the problem with point 2

The default arch linux package does not have user write permissions in the default df directory.  When I give my user account write permission to the df directory fullscreen works with out any problem at all.  With the default permissions none of the log files can be created!  I take it this a problem for stonesense seeing as Stonesense.log appears to keep a list of resolutions.

This could be a mod for the maintainer of the dwarf fortress package, although I am sure they would like to keep it read only and only the data directory write permissions.

Can Stonesense.log be written to the data directory?

I am also running the nvidia binary driver just to let you know on a GeForce 7800 GT

on point 2
Arch uses libpng 1.4 by default so I am just about to install the libpng12 package to see what the outcome is.  Will keep you posted.  Would you prefer me to package it with you allegro?  I guess it helps you with bug reporting etc?
EDIT: Working with your allegro guess it was the need for libpng12

Lastly stonesense seems much much quicker than when I last tried it on my modest hardware.  Not sure what the improvements have been but well done

Hi Guys, really struggling to compile on Arch Linux.  Output of cmake

cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:string=Release
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:177 (DFHACK_PLUGIN):
  Unknown CMake command "DFHACK_PLUGIN".


CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
  No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code such as

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

  should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified may be lower
  if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.  For more
  information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Please help

Sorry I am a little late, linux version of dfg is up at http://www.foxjames.co.uk/linux/dfg/dfg_31_14_linux.tar.bz2

Linux version available on my server as always.  www.foxjames.co.uk/linux/dfg

Mike - You can post the build script I use to automatically convert df to dfg on your website if you wish.  It's a little easier than the manual way.  It should in theory work for mac users too.  Just change the first to variables to mix the versions you require.

#!/bin/bash
#converts dwarf fortress into Mike Maydays graphical version

dfv="31_12"
dfgv="31_12"
dffolder="df_linux"
dfgfolder="df_"$dfv"_win"
initfile=$dffolder/data/init/init.txt

#get ourselves out of the working directory
mkdir -p dfconv/$dfgfolder
cd dfconv

#get packages
wget "http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/df_"$dfv"_linux.tar.bz2"
wget "http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/~mayday/upload/dfg_"$dfgv"_win.zip"

#unpack packages
tar xf "df_"$dfv"_linux.tar.bz2"
unzip "dfg_"$dfgv"_win.zip" -d $dfgfolder

#merge the contents
rm -R $dffolder/raw
cp -R $dfgfolder/raw $dffolder
cp -R $dfgfolder/data/art $dffolder/data
cp -R $dfgfolder/data/init/colors.txt $dffolder/data/init

#edit the init file to include the graphics set
sed -i 's/GRAPHICS:NO/GRAPHICS:YES/g' $initfile
sed -i 's/GRAPHICS_FONT:curses_square_16x16.png/GRAPHICS_FONT:mayday-sans-highlight.png/g' $initfile
sed -i 's/GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:curses_square_16x16.png/GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:mayday-sans-highlight.png/g' $initfile
sed -i 's/GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES/GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:NO/g' $initfile

#tar her back
tar cf "dfg_"$dfv"_linux.tar.bz2" $dffolder

Lovely thank you,  Lets see if I can manage to make and power some then.  Watch this space

No worries noticed the version difference so porb won't work anyway.  Running the tutorial version in wine now