idle-z/liero

This is a fork of Liero for Nintendo Switch

Leiro (Switch-orbmit edition)

This is the fork of Liero made by and for the Nintendo Switch homebrew community of Liero players. Compared to Leiro (orbmit edition) it contains:

• Run on the Nintendo Switch

That's right! This is a straight port of the orbmit edition to the Switch. It relies on libnx and the associated SDL2 implementation.

How to build (Any platform -> Switch)

// TODO: Write formal build instructions
Get pacman with devkitpro repos. If your distro already has pacman, use that and add the dkp repos to your pacman.conf. Otherwise install dkp-pacman. Use a bit of google here if you don't know how to do that.
Make sure that you have libnx, switch-SDL2, switch-SDL2_image, switch-tools, and I think switch-libz installed to /opt/devkitpro, or wherever your $DEVKITRPO var points. Just install them with pacman and you should be good to go. If the build still fails, try installing the other switch-SDL2 libs, maybe something is using them?
To build, run make -f Makefile.nx all.
Disregard the CMake stuff, that's for building the PC release.
// TODO?: Redo build with CMake

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots from the DOS version of the game. It looks the same as the port.

OLD README

The original Leiro (orbmit edition) is reproduced below in full, lest we forget the giants upon whose shoulders we stand.
Also, because it contains useful information.

Liero (orbmit edition)

This is the fork of Liero made by and for the community of Liero players in Göteborg. Compared to Liero 1.36 it contains:

• an upgrade to SDL 2
• borderless window fullscreen
• single screen replay. Views the full map in replays
• spectator window. View the full map in a separate window for spectators or streaming
• updated video replay processing
• ability to view spawn point when dead (off by default)
• fix for occasional stuttering

Due to being forked from an unreleased improved version of Liero 1.36, it also contains the following changes:

• AI improvements
• menu reorganization
• new game mode "Scales of Justice"
• massively improved total conversion support
• various other changes

How to build (Windows)

Building on Windows

• Install Visual Studio 2015
• Install needed packages (SDL2) via nuget
• Copy everything from the pkg directory to the _build directory

(Optional) Dependencies for building the video tool

• Follow the instructions for installing dependencies needed to build ffmpeg. At the time of writing, the MSYS2 route worked best for me https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/MinGW
• Download latest libx264: git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
• Build it: cd x264; ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pic && make -j8
• Download latest ffmpeg: git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
• Build it: cd ffmpeg; ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pic --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --disable-programs --extra-ldflags=-L../x264 --extra-cflags=-I../x264 && make -j8

How to build (Linux and Mac)

Building on Linux and Mac

• Make sure you have CMake, SDL2, SDL2_image and gcc installed
• Run cmake:
• $ cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"
• Run "make"
• Copy everything from the pkg directory to the root directory used for the build

(Optional) Enabling and building the video tool

• Download latest libx264: git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
• Build it: cd x264; ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pic && make -j8
• Download latest ffmpeg: git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
• Build it: cd ffmpeg; ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pic --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --disable-programs --extra-ldflags=-L../x264 --extra-cflags=-I../x264 --extra-libs=-ldl && make -j8
• Run: make -j8 videotool

Building a release build

• Run cmake:
• $ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G "Unix Makefiles"
• Run "make"