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[gimymblert]

ok thanks it works, I'm following an online course and have no answer when trying to trouble shoot the anomaly ...

[oahda]

What virtual machine software would you recommend that runs on OS X?

I used to have a sort of neat compilation setup where I'd compile for OS X on my Mac and for Linux and Windows on my Linux PC, but that one was stolen like two years ago now, so I thought I'd recreate that environment on the Mac instead, and I'm thinking why bootcamp and have to log on and off when I could just compile it in the VM and not have to leave my Mac environment?

Unless, of course, you believe it'd be awfully slow to compile on a VM?

[Cheesegrater]

Most people use either Virtual Box or VMWare. I use Virtual Box myself. Virtualization is fast enough for most things these days, since CPUs support it in hardware.

[ThemsAllTook]

VirtualBox is how I build all of my Linux code, and it's perfectly speedy for it. OpenGL rendering and audio output don't seem to work properly, so it's not practical for testing the games built with it, but compilation works fine. I'm doing it on Windows, but I imagine it would work just as well on OS X.

[qMopey]

I use VirtualBox with Linux and it works great. I setup the device to use 1 core and not much hardware, so I mostly do it just to compile, run, valgrind, etc. For full on testing I have an actual machine with Linux installed (just a preference), but in my experience the VirtualBox OS works perfectly fine and was admirably easy to get working without prior knowledge of VMs or Linux.

[Photon]

If I need simple platforming physics (ex: classic MegaMan) but I don't want to code it all from scratch, are there any good physics engines for Haxe that could do the job without having to fight too hard against the physics being "too realistic?" Any opinions on Nape?

[InfiniteStateMachine]

If I need simple platforming physics (ex: classic MegaMan) but I don't want to code it all from scratch, are there any good physics engines for Haxe that could do the job without having to fight too hard against the physics being "too realistic?" Any opinions on Nape?

Haxeflixel

[Photon]

If I need simple platforming physics (ex: classic MegaMan) but I don't want to code it all from scratch, are there any good physics engines for Haxe that could do the job without having to fight too hard against the physics being "too realistic?" Any opinions on Nape?

Haxeflixel

I hadn't thought of that, though if I'm not mistaken that's more of a general-purpose game solution than just a physics engine. I'm picking up a lot of other stuff than physics if I use that, yes?

[surt]

hxCollision does SAT collision.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

If I need simple platforming physics (ex: classic MegaMan) but I don't want to code it all from scratch, are there any good physics engines for Haxe that could do the job without having to fight too hard against the physics being "too realistic?" Any opinions on Nape?

Haxeflixel

I hadn't thought of that, though if I'm not mistaken that's more of a general-purpose game solution than just a physics engine. I'm picking up a lot of other stuff than physics if I use that, yes?

Ah yes that's true. You could most likely pull it out and adjust it for your purposes though. I think ultimately the function just operates on a couple AABB's so fixing up the parameters shouldn't be too hard.

[oahda]

I remember hearing about and seeing this game engine / IDE (like Unity) a few years ago, but I can't for the life of me seem to find it again.

Its main idea was that you could work online and chat with each other and see changes other people made immediately without having to synchronise stuff manually (I think). I remember the interface being sort of beige.

Does anyone know what engine I mean and if it still exists?

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Whatever that is, it sounds pretty cool.

[oahda]

Yeah. :c

Also thanks to everybody who suggested VirtualBox. Works like a charm so far, tho I haven't tried compiling anything yet. It sits in fullscreen mode on a desktop space of its own that I can just pop into, running Ubuntu. Very integrated. Really cool. And even my oddball magic trackpad with its unorthodox input methods maps perfectly: I can click with two fingers to right click and drag two fingers along it to scroll, even in Ubuntu. So seamless. So nice.

QUESTION!

Haven't used Linux in a while now and I depended on an old setup even then. So. C++14 support these days. Do I get it right out of the box if I apt-get g++? Or is it even installed already with that support? Also I need MinGW with C++14. Does it exist? And is there any more modern IDE than Code::Blocks these days for Linux that's better? Or has C::B gotten better since I last used it, for that matter?

[InfiniteStateMachine]

I like KDevelop when I want an IDE in linux. It uses a CMake file as a project file which is pretty cool.

[oahda]

Does it support multiple targets so that I can compile for Windows and Linux alike with minimal efforts from the same project?

It was relatively easy in Code::Blocks, but could've been simpler. The compiler is global so I had to go and browse for MinGW executables instead of GCC ones and vice versa, having to switch each time, being unable to set it up individually for different targets or even projects.

And well, can I tell it to use MinGW instead of GCC at all?

Also do I have to touch makefiles at all or can I use it like Xcode and Code::Blocks? I don't want to work with them.

(reading docs right now but thought I'd ask here in case I get an answer before I can find it myself)

[Cheesegrater]

Haven't used Linux in a while now and I depended on an old setup even then. So. C++14 support these days. Do I get it right out of the box if I apt-get g++?

Yes, but g++ defaults to 98. You'll need to add a option for it: 'g++ -std=c++14'. I'm not familiar with the IDE you're talking about, presumably it has a setting for it somewhere.

Also I need MinGW with C++14. Does it exist?

No. MinGW is notoriously slow with updates. There are a few forks of MinGW that move faster, you should look at those.

[oahda]

Is this what I need?

http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php

Can't figure out whether it supports C++14 tho...

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Does it support multiple targets so that I can compile for Windows and Linux alike with minimal efforts from the same project?

It was relatively easy in Code::Blocks, but could've been simpler. The compiler is global so I had to go and browse for MinGW executables instead of GCC ones and vice versa, having to switch each time, being unable to set it up individually for different targets or even projects.

And well, can I tell it to use MinGW instead of GCC at all?

Also do I have to touch makefiles at all or can I use it like Xcode and Code::Blocks? I don't want to work with them.

(reading docs right now but thought I'd ask here in case I get an answer before I can find it myself)

By virtue of the fact that KDevelop uses CMake files implies that there is some level of portability but it IS C++ so there's always going to be some degree of pain

I believe KDevelop has some support for maintaining your make file such as when you add a new code file it creates the entries for you but every time I used it I would have to get in there myself. Mind you, most of the projects I did there had language bindings via SWIG which is mainly why I was doing a lot of it by hand. If you don't use something like that you could probably get away with having the IDE do most of the work for you.

[oahda]

Might have a look at it. It's not that Code::Blocks is awful but it just feels a bit old and outdated since there is so much stuff in Visual Studio and Xcode, so in the "worst" case I guess I'll just use that since I know how to.

EDIT:
KDevelop's integrated git stuff looks appealing, tho... Yeah, yeah, I know I said I'd never use git again after I lost a lot of stuff, but I more or less have to if I'm to make this work out well... Gonna make a manual copy of my project and then try to reset my repositories and TRY to start committing regularly...

[Loop Gain]

Is this what I need?

http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php

Can't figure out whether it supports C++14 tho...

I use MinGW-w64 4.9.2 at work and if I recall correctly support for C++14 is extensive but incomplete.

It's not that Code::Blocks is awful but it just feels a bit old and outdated since there is so much stuff in Visual Studio and Xcode, so in the "worst" case I guess I'll just use that since I know how to.

Are you using ones of the recent nightly builds of Code::Blocks? They come out quite regularly. Admittedly, C::B's UI still looks a bit dated, but it remains my C++ IDE of choice (incidentally, setting up MinGW-w64 in C::B is quick and easy).