An option to use separate dirs

[DarthGandalf]

I'm trying to package this for my linux distro, and various resources belong to /usr/share, but files like PLAYER.LST, HALLFAME.LST should be somewhere in $HOME, because /usr/share is not writeable by the user. The binary itself is in yet another dir: /usr/bin/opensupaplex

Probably resource location could even be hardcoded as a compile-time option, default to ., and I'd override it to /usr/share/opensupaplex

Saves location can't be hardcoded like that… I don't have a good suggestion there. Maybe provide a command-line flag, also defaulting to .?

WDYT?

[sergiou87]

Yeah I don't know what's the best option either 🤔 If you check this

open-supaplex/src/file.c

Lines 60 to 70 in 3f7708b

	#if defined(_3DS)
	#define FILE_BASE_PATH "sdmc:/OpenSupaplex/"
	#elif defined(__PSL1GHT__)
	#define FILE_BASE_PATH "/dev_hdd0/game/" PS3APPID "/USRDIR/"
	#elif defined(__WII__)
	#define FILE_BASE_PATH "/apps/OpenSupaplex/"
	#elif defined(__WIIU__)
	#define FILE_BASE_PATH "fs:/vol/external01/wiiu/apps/OpenSupaplex/"
	#else
	#define FILE_BASE_PATH ""
	#endif

and

open-supaplex/src/sdl_common/audio.c

Lines 73 to 85 in 7b62e93

	#ifdef __vita__
	static const char *kBaseAudioFolder = "app0:/audio";
	#elif defined(_3DS)
	static const char *kBaseAudioFolder = "sdmc:/OpenSupaplex/audio";
	#elif defined(__PSL1GHT__)
	static const char *kBaseAudioFolder = "/dev_hdd0/game/" PS3APPID "/USRDIR/audio";
	#elif defined(__WII__)
	static const char *kBaseAudioFolder = "/apps/OpenSupaplex/audio";
	#elif defined(__WIIU__)
	static const char *kBaseAudioFolder = "fs:/vol/external01/wiiu/apps/OpenSupaplex/audio";
	#else
	static const char *kBaseAudioFolder = "audio";
	#endif

there are a few ways to set specific paths per platform.

The "writable" files are those which are changed by the game. Some platforms (like PS Vita) can store resources with the game binary, but then can't write them, so the game creates a specific (hardcoded) path somewhere else where those files you mentioned can be written. For that I added this:

open-supaplex/src/file.c

Line 27 in 3f7708b

#define VITA_WRITABLE_PATH "ux0:/data/OpenSupaplex/"

So in Linux we might need to do something like that, and just create a getWritableFilePath that points to ~/.config/OpenSupaplex? Does that sound reasonable?

[DarthGandalf]

Only ADVANCED.CFG seems to be reading via getWritableFilePath, and even that file it tries to write it to getReadonlyFilePath back.

[DarthGandalf]

And there need to be some way to select whether to use files in . or in those 2 directories. Probably a compile-time option would suffice for that though

[DarthGandalf]

Only ADVANCED.CFG seems to be reading via getWritableFilePath, and even that file it tries to write it to getReadonlyFilePath back.

Nvm, that's me putting #endif to the wrong line

[sergiou87]

And there need to be some way to select whether to use files in . or in those 2 directories. Probably a compile-time option would suffice for that though

Not super proud of what I'm gonna suggest, but why not hardcoding ./ for Linux for readonly files? And then something like ~/.config/OpenSupaplex for writable files. It can be extracted to a compile-time param later if needed (in case some distro/package format needs it).

It's a pity how different platforms required different solutions to access the game files 😢