ioquake3 appimage for x86_64

Date:	2020-07-23 14:00
modified:	2020-07-23 14:00
tags:	ioquake3, quake3
Authors:	Pascal Geiser
summary:	Creating an appimage for ioquake3

Contents

• ioquake3 AppImage
  • Internals

 repository: ioquake3-appimage

ioquake3 AppImage

ioQuake3 is a community effort to continue to maintain and improve the source code of Quake3 released under the Gnu General Public license by ID software.

AppImage is a packaging solution for linux applications, similar to Snap or Flatpak

Quake 3 Arena: (C) Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Id Software, Inc. Do not make illegal copies of the game!

To use it:

• Read and accept ID software eula
• Download the latest tgz archive in the releases
• Unpack it.
• Overwrite the pak0.pk3 file in the baseq3 folder with the one of your original installation CD.

The first time, start the application in a terminal in order to accept the EULA of ID software.

Internals

Docker is used to have a simple, yet consistent build environment.

The Dockerfile does the following steps:

• Package installation: mostly compiler and libraries
• Clone of ioq3 git repository (https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3)
• Build of ioq3
• Download of appimage, pk3 files and demo
• Packaging in a unified tarball.