Emerald 1.23.5.1101 for linux

Update: http://greenlifeemeraldviewer.googlecode.com/files/Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101.tar.bz2 Discrete got the official build out.

I have the Emerald 1101 build for Linux, it's build optimiced for Ubuntu 9.04 and newer, I have tested on 9.04 and 9.10. On 9.10 it works badly at least for me with pulseaudio, removing pulseaudio and it works well. (sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio;sudo apt-get install esound).

Installation is like:

wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101.tar.bz2
tar jxf Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101.tar.bz2

This will get it running, but voice is missing and the graphis uses the much slower OpenJPEG library. These have to be copied form the official viewer, or is you have the old emerals voice pack.

With the old Emerals voice pack:

cd Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101/
tar jxf ../Emerald\ Non-Free\ Binaries.tar.bz2

With out that:

wget http://download.cloud.secondlife.com/SecondLife-i686-1.23.5.136262.tar.bz2
tar jxf SecondLife-i686-1.23.5.136262.tar.bz2
cd SecondLife-i686-1.23.5.136262/
cp bin/libllkdu.so bin/SLVoice lib/libfmod-3.75.so lib/libkdu.so lib/libvivoxsdk.so lib/libortp.so ../Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101/
cd ..

Some checksums to verify:
sha256sum:
55ed30949cbc23d03e691821a7fa5c75a00c6dbb065bbce1f161cf968cc43938 Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101.tar.bz2

GnuPG signature, it's signed with my new key:

pub   1024D/79B24AB7 2009-11-30 [expires: 2014-11-29]
      Key fingerprint = 92CF B806 5127 2ED0 7882  61F1 B5B4 7749 79B2 4AB7
uid                  Anders Arnholm (Balp) 

And an other new viewer

Boy Lane, made some changes in the CoolViewer, and so was Rainbow Viewer born. As boy only make windows code, and I would guess the interest for this version is about 0, form Henri. I decided to take it to linux. Now ready to be downloaded form google.

I made some small changes to make the install easy. For the first time, well the first time in know of, SecondLife third party viewer have voice, and kdu support without breaking the licence agreements and NO extra install steps.

Install by:

balp@goldmoon:/tmp$ wget http://coolviewer.googlecode.com/files/RainbowViewer-i686-1.22.11.0.tar.bz2
balp@goldmoon:/tmp$ tar jxf RainbowViewer-i686-1.22.11.0.tar.bz2

Run by:

balp@goldmoon:/tmp$ ./RainbowViewer-i686-1.22.11.0/rainbowviewer

First time you start the viewer some missing stuff will be found on the internetz and added to the installation. It's a 36Meg download. So it might take some extra time. I'm sorry i can't add these few files. If you like to save the download on a slow line and have an other version of SecondLife installed copy the following files in to the RainbowViewer-i686-1.22.11.0 directory.

fonts/MtBdLfRg.ttf
fonts/MtBkLfRg.ttf
bin/SLVoice
lib/libvivoxsdk.so
bin/libllkdu.so

Given my reading of licence agreement these 5 files are not re distributable by me.

Just as it started a wall...

And a crash, sadly Kirsten could not take the idiots hurting her. And Bye Bye Shadowdraft.....

Optimized build.

The last build of the KirstenViewer was not as fast as expected, missed to make a release build with optimization. I usually build with Henri's scripts making this for me. But as this code came in an other form that was not possible an I goofed. I had the feeling it was not as quick as I expected but never got the time to make clean test. yesterday I did, the numbers was so bad I had to do something. Lime add optimization flags. This runs well on my AMD-64, not tested on any intel props, it might not work as well there. New build here, code diff against 1.21.6 here. Full code is here and follow the viewer at her blog.

Release: Balp Build - 18.5.3 - v0b

A build for Second Life 18.5.3 with the addition of Nicholaz patches. It needs a install of SL 18.3.5 Linux version to run.
E.g:

balp@kitiara:~$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3.tar.bz2
balp@kitiara:~$ tar jxf balp-build-v0b.tar.bz2

Then start Second life from that directory with:

balp@kitiara:~$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3/
balp@kitiara:~/SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3$ ./balp-secondlife

Patches at the same place for download.

Feed back on the build to me, anders (at) arnholm.se. This version if build on Ubuntu 7.10, other linux versions might have different library versions and might give strange problems.

Windlight

How ever good windlight looks, it's somehow broken, the source code can't compile. There is a error about that in the JIRA. Some header files are missing from the library files at least. (glh/glh_linear.h), the include names and the layout in the nVidia headers i have found suggests that there are some modification done to these headers, they don't like to be in the glh/ subdirectory by default. I think the export of the source code have gone wrong at LL. One more think that points to how expensive it it to walk half-hearted into open source. When one starts to duplicate information, there will be more errors. One place contains a number of errors in the information, two places the double amount of errors, and usually not the same errors.

I hope that these error soon can be fixed with a new source code release from LL, at least in the subversion that contains the layout and maybe changes of the nvidia headers.

Nicholaz BE-t for Linux

As Nicholaz have released BE-t i can't be worse, down load of my build from Umeå University, and patches from the same place. This build need the 18.4.3 build from Linden Labs. Unpack my files into the Second_life directory.

E.g:
balp@kitiara:~$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_4_3.tar.bz2
balp@kitiara:~$ tar jxf balp-build-t1.tar.bz2
Then start Second life from that directory with:
balp@kitiara:~$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_18_4_3/
balp@kitiara:~/SecondLife_i686_1_18_4_3$ ./balp-secondlife
Feed back on the build to me, anders (at) arnholm.se.