Comments on: Train Game 0.2

By: raja

raja — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:50:22 +0000

good but i wnt to download the train simulater games pls send me url or site link on my mail id

By: nick

nick — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:33:05 +0000

Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, building from source at the moment is a bit tortuous on Linux, and even worse on Windows. When I release a version that’s closer to being finished I intended to provide binary versions for Windows and various Linux distributions.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:23:24 +0000

Hi Nick, your train game has the sort of “sandbox” appeal which would make it perfect for me and my four-year-old son to play together. We’d really enjoy playing with no fixed goals, just for the experience. I think lots of other young people would feel the same way!

I didn’t quite manage to build the game on Linux (got lost in dependencies) but I’d love to try again sometime or see a Windows version for us knuckleheads.

Thanks for sharing your work and we will watch with anticipation for future releases!

By: nick

nick — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:48:13 +0000

Hi Gregor,

Which version of Xerces are you using? I have only tested with versions >3.0. From the above error it looks like you are using 2.8.

By: gregor

gregor — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:33:34 +0000

I’m very sorry for polluting your comments but now it won’t load any maps:

./bin/TrainGame play coal_mine
[.....]
[INFO ] Xerces initialised
[INFO ] Loading building from /home/gregor/stuff/TrainGame-0.2.0/buildings/platform_end/platform_end.xml
[INFO ] Creating parser for XML schema schemas/building.xsd
[INFO ] Loading model /home/gregor/stuff/TrainGame-0.2.0/buildings/platform_end
terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::ios_base::failure’
what(): basic_filebuf::underflow error reading the file
Abgebrochen

Any ideas?

By: gregor

gregor — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:28:08 +0000

Hey,

through some more hacking I got it working.
Firstly, I took the advice from
http://wiki.python-ogre.org/index.php/LinuxBuildV2
and added the following line to “./src/XMLParser.cpp”
#include

Then I got linking errors with xerces, a brief look into “./CMakeFiles/TrainGame.dir/link.txt” revealed that it was NOT linking to -lxerces-c !!!

I don’t know why cmake does this (probably because I commented the pkg-check out as mentioned above….) but now it works.

Out of curiosity, how can I make a cleaner build?

By: gregor

gregor — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:30:29 +0000

On OpenSuSE 11.1:
I installed a xerces RPM with yast, but it didn’t include(?) a pkg-file, so I removed the check from
“./cmake/Modules/FindXerces.cmake”
and generated the Makefile with
“cmake XERCES_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib XERCES_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include .”

Sadly, when compiling it throws the following error message:
———————-
[ 1%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/TrainGame.dir/src/XMLParser.cpp.o
/home/gregor/stuff/TrainGame-0.2.0/src/XMLParser.cpp: In constructor ‘XercesXMLParser::XercesXMLParser(const std::string&)’:
/home/gregor/stuff/TrainGame-0.2.0/src/XMLParser.cpp:145: error: incomplete type ‘xercesc_2_8::Grammar’ used in nested name specifier
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/TrainGame.dir/src/XMLParser.cpp.o] Fehler 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/TrainGame.dir/all] Fehler 2
make: *** [all] Fehler 2
——————–

How can I fix that? I do not believe that my hack around the pkg causes this, but I better ask you

By: nick

nick — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:50:07 +0000

> maybe it is just me, but i really like atc(8). maybe you could have a mode like that? with trains instead of planes.

Yes, that’s possible. It could use only AI trains but you control the points.

I’d like to make it as generic as possible so it’s easy to implement whatever train-based game you want.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:00:37 +0000

Yes, it is the same problem. I have re-emerged xerces-c without “iconv” flag and rebuild the game. It works. It is amazing!

So nice game Hope to see next release.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:33:37 +0000

Hi Yuri,
I haven’t see this error message before but it’s generated the first time Xerces is used. Do you think it’s the same as the problem reported here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/259408