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Wikipedia links:

• List of Doom source ports
• Doom WAD file, including links to notable WADs

See the Portaboom Google Code Wiki for a list of ports that compile under Linux. The info on this page is old an outdated.

07Oct2005 (Debian PPC)

• Unpack the source
• cd into the source
• cp makefile Makefile
• mv makefile makefile.old
• in Makefile, make the following changes:
  • Change the output BIN directory to be $PWD
    • BIN=./bin
  • Change the object output directory
    • O=./objs
  • Change all occurances of -mpentium to -powerpc
  • Change the legacy.dat search directories
    • in linux_x/i_system.c, change one of the DEFAULT[WADLOCATION|SEARCHPATH]* strings so the location of legacy.dat matches where you put it on the filesystem
      • #define DEFAULTWADLOCATION2 "/usr/share/games/doom"

Old instructions

To compile DoomLegacy

• change into the DoomLegacy source directory
• create a bin directory above the DoomLegacy directory mkdir ../bin
• rename makefile to Makefile, then run make LINUX=1