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Hi to @ and the QNX team,

Just got my teeth into this the other day, and first of all I'd like to
say that I'm very pleased and impressed with this package, esp. the
coverage and clarity of its documentation. This should serve as an example
for anyone making a product which they are charging money for - even if
they are already the richest man in the world .

The project I'm envisioning is an audio/DSP application, that's where the
realtime part comes in. But the GUI will be a nifty 3D "world" with
controls optimized for ergonomics. I found the ideal platform to create
this, as funny as it may sound, to be the Doom3 SDK with its high-level
scripting engine.

However, trying to build it under QNX is like running into a wall. The
installation guide I was trying to follow is found here:
http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/Building_on_linux

Of course there are some dependencies, which was expected. But it puzzles
me a bit that compiling them most of the time fails at a very basic level.
Trying to upgrade gcc to the required 3.3 alone seems outright impossible.

The only thing that worked was building Python (needed by Scons).

Before going into any detail about the many failed attempts to get there,
my question:

Has anybody ever successfully done such a thing and could offer a
walkthrough? For level of expertise, I'd say I'm an experienced programmer
but not that secure when hassling with the infrastructure.

Or is maybe QNX not the ideal environment for doing this, rather for
developing things from scratch inside its own world without bringing in 3rd
party packages?

Thanks for any help and pointers.
Klaus

. I found the ideal platform to create
this, as funny as it may sound, to be the Doom3 SDK with its high-level
scripting engine. However, trying to build it under QNX is like running
into a wall. The installation guide I was trying to follow is found here:
http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/Building_on_linux
Klaus

Upgrade gcc? QNX 6.3 already come with 3.3.5.

You can get binaries from the 3rd party CD.

Porting is not as easy as on Linux, but it can be done (the amount of
software on the 3rd party CD is proof of that). That being said I don't
beleive that it's QSS's top priority

Let me see if understand this. There is source code for the Doom3 engine available to be used as you like? That's pretty amazing. Not a total shock for ID software, but seems like a bit too early.

Hi to @ and the QNX team,

Just got my teeth into this the other day, and first of all I'd like to
say that I'm very pleased and impressed with this package, esp. the
coverage and clarity of its documentation. This should serve as an example
for anyone making a product which they are charging money for - even if
they are already the richest man in the world .

The project I'm envisioning is an audio/DSP application, that's where the
realtime part comes in. But the GUI will be a nifty 3D "world" with
controls optimized for ergonomics. I found the ideal platform to create
this, as funny as it may sound, to be the Doom3 SDK with its high-level
scripting engine. However, trying to build it under QNX is like running
into a wall. The installation guide I was trying to follow is found here:
http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/Building_on_linux

Of course there are some dependencies, which was expected. But it puzzles
me a bit that compiling them most of the time fails at a very basic level.
Trying to upgrade gcc to the required 3.3 alone seems outright impossible.
The only thing that worked was building Python (needed by Scons). Before
going into any detail about the many failed attempts to get there, my
question:

Has anybody ever successfully done such a thing and could offer a
walkthrough? For level of expertise, I'd say I'm an experienced programmer
but not that secure when hassling with the infrastructure. Or is maybe QNX
not the ideal environment for doing this, rather for developing things
from scratch inside its own world without bringing in 3rd party packages?

Thanks for any help and pointers.
Klaus

Mario Charestwrote:
Upgrade gcc? QNX 6.3 already come with 3.3.5.

This is strange... mine says it's 2.95.3.

You can get binaries from the 3rd party CD.

Figured that out in the meantime ;)


Porting is not as easy as on Linux, but it can be done (the amount
of
software on the 3rd party CD is proof of that). That being said I
don't
beleive that it's QSS's top priority ;-)

That's certainly right. Before wasting too much time, should consider
a networked architecture with QNX running the audio engine, while the
GUI is on a general purpose machine. Yes, that sounds like much less
trouble.

Thanks!