Recently, I've setup a VM of Linux Mint for the purpouse of porting my game(s) to Linux. My game is already cross platform between Windows Desktop, MacOSX, iOS and Android/Amazon Kindle. Now, I am quite familiar with Linux, but I've never dev'ed anything for it either. So I was hoping to get a bit of advice from those who have done this before.

1. Will g++ suffice as my compiler? My game uses C and C++. I'm also a bit of a noob to makefiles...

2. Since Linux Mint is based off of Ubuntu (and in turn, based off of Debian), what Linux distributions will my game run on then?

3. My game uses GLUT (and I plan on switching to freeglut), do I have to install anything extra or does Mint come with this?

4. Any other helpful bits of advice.

Thanks.

Shogun.

EDIT: Figured out how to install freeglut, and got it working with g++ already. That's a load off so far.

2. It depends, if you stick to the LSB(you have to statically link any non LSB libraries, or replace them with a LSB equivalent) your game will run on all LSB compliant distributions (Using the LSB SDK is highly recommended), if you don't it is pretty difficult to say, it will most likely work on most debian based distributions atleast.

Thanks, but what does LSB stand for?

4. Any other helpful bits of advice.

You'll want to learn how to package your game distribution up as a .deb package. This is by far the friendliest way for your users to install your game on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint.

Ah, so it's a .deb that is the package type. I've gotten used to having the all in one functionality of Apple's .app package.

While I'm at it, Ubuntu has an app store, and I hear that it's not working (or harder than it should be to install) on Linux Mint 17. One of my goals is to get this on that distribution channel. Do Mint users commonly have this installed?

Shogun

you can use codeblocks or any other ide, that compiles your object files, and links together the stuff, so you dont need into makefiles, if you dont want makefiles.

also if you dont want to use ides, like the codeblocks, you can just give g++ main.c -o mystuff -lfreeglut -lwhatever.

i dont know, if mint has glut develop files, but usually you find the package with freeglut-devel, or with a name close to that

i dont suggest clang, its buggy like the hell, in reality, it compiles slower binary, and they refuse to even care about bugreports (or at least from my bugreports, they calim its not a bug, i doing it wrong, etc).

Has it occured to you that they might be right? Link the bug report, and we can confirm/deny.

its possible in some case of certain financial conditions.

Has it occured to you that they might be right? Link the bug report, and we can confirm/deny.

its possible in some case of certain financial conditions.

Could you link the bug report? Or is this behind an NDA?

Were you by any chance using floating-point numbers to represent currency values?

Will g++ suffice as my compiler? My game uses C and C++. I'm also a bit of a noob to makefiles...

I haven't done any extensive Linux development, but I ported a game to Linux using this IDE: http://codelite.org/

It feels reasonably close to VC++ and Xcode in general.