Package request: OpenRA

Package request: OpenRA

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi,

We don't have OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/).
Has anyone worked on it?
Otherwise I'll go ahead.

Any tip, any special wish?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Package request: OpenRA

[pkill9]

Hi Pierre,

> We don't have OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/).
> Has anyone worked on it?
> Otherwise I'll go ahead.
> 
> Any tip, any special wish?

I have a working package (last tested a while ago, some third party hashes would need updaring, and there may be new build failures, but i played it in the past) in my repository at https://gitlab.com/pkill-9/guix-packages-free/tree/master/pkill9/packages/openra, however the third party .Net libraries aren't built from source because I couldn't get mono to build them from source. I believe Mono is too old on Guix to build them.

Another issue to note is that i had to wrap xdg data dirs to point to generated mono certificates.

Another issue is that maxmind geoip database is used during build, but the url constantly updates and they dont provide previous versions. best solution would be patch openra upstream to provide option not to use geoip database, or to grab it at runtime.
I don't believe there are any licensing issues with using maxmind's geoip database in guix, can't remember though.

Re: Package request: OpenRA

[ng0]

There aren't issuess with the DB (unless it changed), we discussed creating
a package in context of tor some time in 2016 - 2018 I think.

Re: Package request: OpenRA

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Thanks for sharing!

Besides Nix seems to have a working package:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Package request: OpenRA

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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I gave it a shot.

The main obstacle for inclusion in Guix is to build the C# libraries.

I tried with our Mono 4.4 on SharpZipLib (https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpZipLib/):

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> /gnu/store/fi2i5850527jpw4zbqyw0kaa7yhmrz5w-mono-4.4.1.0/bin/xbuild ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj 
XBuild Engine Version 14.0
Mono, Version 4.4.1.0
Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Various Mono authors

Build started 1/26/2020 4:53:08 PM.
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ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj: error : /home/ambrevar/projects/SharpZipLib/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj: The default XML namespace of the project must be the MSBuild XML namespace. If the project is authored in the MSBuild 2003 format, please add xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" to the <Project> element. If the project has been authored in the old 1.0 or 1.2 format, please convert it to MSBuild 2003 format.  
Build FAILED.
Errors:

ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj: error : /home/ambrevar/projects/SharpZipLib/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj: The default XML namespace of the project must be the MSBuild XML namespace. If the project is authored in the MSBuild 2003 format, please add xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" to the <Project> element. If the project has been authored in the old 1.0 or 1.2 format, please convert it to MSBuild 2003 format.  

	 0 Warning(s)
	 1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.0194670
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I tried to do what the message says, and then I get:

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> /gnu/store/fi2i5850527jpw4zbqyw0kaa7yhmrz5w-mono-4.4.1.0/bin/xbuild ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj
XBuild Engine Version 14.0
Mono, Version 4.4.1.0
Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Various Mono authors

Build started 1/26/2020 5:00:19 PM.
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/home/ambrevar/projects/SharpZipLib/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj: error : /home/ambrevar/projects/SharpZipLib/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj: The attribute "Version" in element <PackageReference> is unrecognized.
Build FAILED.
Errors:

/home/ambrevar/projects/SharpZipLib/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj: error : /home/ambrevar/projects/SharpZipLib/src/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.csproj: The attribute "Version" in element <PackageReference> is unrecognized.

	 0 Warning(s)
	 1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.0222830
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I guess pkill-9 is right, we need to update Mono first.

But maybe we can work around the build system by compiling it manually.
I know that the 'mcs' program can compile single-file C# libraries like sdl2-cs.

Cheers!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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