Croquet Collaborative -- fixes to v0.1 for Linux

Schwa & Howard have a croquet disto -> http://www.croquetcollaborative.org/

Take the following with a grain of salt: Some of the issues have been resolved; Some of my reactions were misguided.

How I fixed v0.1 to work under linux (Fedora Core 4; YMMV): [NOTICE that v0.2 is now published]

Download my version of this file -> Croquet.sh . Theirs had a wrong image name, and was DOS format -- Linux really doesn't like the ControlMs (Carriage Returns). Actually, that script breaks when done-digit version numbers end the image filename, unless you specify the image name yourself.
Change this one method -> Scratch.1.cs.bin (remove the .bin extension). That masks around needing OpenAL to *work*. You still need it to be loadable, it seems, so that's what the next three items are about:
Put http://www.smilax.org/144/OpenALPlugin.so in the bin/i686* directory
Make sure you have libopenal: [FedoraCore]
yum install openal
Make a link in /usr/local/lib to libopenal without the .so number: [FedoraCore]
ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libopenal.so
chmod +x Croquet.sh bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/*
The instructions say to change the interactivity server hostname to empty for testing your local system. That does not seem to work for me. However leaving the default ( www.croquetcollaborative.org ) does work for me, after a pause. Be patient for a minute or so.

What was really wrong: my box's "hostname" (according to the OS), looked up in /etc/hosts , did not match the IP address that the box got from DHCP. Suggestion for running all on one node: set hostname to 'localhost'. For running a server for other clients: make sure hostname, /etc/hosts, and ifconfig all agree.

I did that, before I learned how to update with Monticello.

[LeftClick] open... > Monticello Browser
For each of the four "http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu...." items in the right column, click the item, and click <Open> at top right, and...
In the new "Repository" window, for each bold item in the left column (if any), click on the item, and...
In the right column, for each item above the underlined item, from the bottom one to the to one, click the item and clock <Load> at the top.

( marginally useful YAK pages on Croquet -- http://www.smilax.org/144 -- http://wiki.yak.net/635 -- http://yak.net/croquet/ -- http://speedy.cs.uiuc.edu/~johnson/croquet/Dormouse-20/StrickAndRyan/ )

Code Drops (works in progress) (not related to just making Croquet work on Linux)

RefactorKCPWorlds.3.cs

OpenALPlugin.so

libopenal.so.0.0.0