OpenSong on Linux

If you’re using OpenSong on Linux please consider adding useful links or making an edit to add tips or information that will help other users of OpenSong.

Note that the syntax in this wiki differs from wikipedia (et al.).

— this page started by pbhj 2007/10/07 23:35, I’m not an OpenSong coder just an eager user

Version 1.2.0 (link to sourceforge download) is available as a “tgz” file. This has been confirmed to work on the Ubuntu based Kubuntu “Edgy Eft” 6.10 and “Feisty Fawn” 7.04.

A guide to installing both Kubuntu and OpenSong (by compilation and from tarball) is available. At the time of writing information there has been used to enable xinerama and have “single screen” presentation mode used across two physical displays.

There is currently no other specifically targetted distro however users may find that the release tar.gz (aka “tarball”) will run on their distro. Please add a report to the wiki for any unmentioned distro on which you have OpenSong running.

WINE is a compatability layer that enables API calls for Windows to work on Linux (and other x86 based unixes). This means that the OpenSong MS Windows executable files can be used with a Linux distro.

Tests have shown running via WINE will not enable dual screen modes (and this is confirmed by reports on the http://www.winehq.org/ site that the hooks needed are not in place).

OpenSong is written in RealBasic and requires the build environment from RealBasic (which is available as a free-gratis Standard Edition and a paid for Professional Edition in addition to non-free editions for other environments). Cross-compilation is disabled in the free-gratis standard edition. Or it was in mine. — p bhj 2007/10/07 23:42