[Feature request] 32-bit Linux natives

[glowiak]

Good morning once again, I haven't used github in a few months so now I have to live again with how terrible it is.

Would it be possible to also bundle 32-bit Linux natives?

I would like to be able run my game (DeamDung) on Slackware 14.2 32-bit (a distro from 2016) for the purpose that I like x86 (in my opinion 64-bitness is redundant for most users, including me).

Thanks in advance.

[electronstudio]

The release binaries are compiled on GitHub Actions, which I think is currently running Ubuntu 22.04. It would probably be possible to use gcc-multilib to cross compile a 32 bit binary there. However, the binary wouldn’t work on Slackware 14.2 because it has a much older GlibC.

It might be possible to use a Slackware 14.2 Docker image to do it. But the number of people still running Slackware 14.2 can probably be counted on one hand,so you’d be the only user of this, so you might as well just compile your own jar file locally.

[electronstudio]

Actually I thought of a reason to do this. If you setup a build using Slackware 14.2 docker image that builds both 64 bit and 32 bit binaries, the 64 bit ones might be useful for other people since they would continue to run on e.g Ubuntu 22.04 even when GitHub stops supporting it, so I would accept a PR for that.

Not sure if/when I’d have time to do this myself.

[glowiak]

Hmm, I've never used docker. Will need to look that up.

[glowiak]

@electronstudio I built myself a custom jarfile with the right binaries, so now my game runs properly on that beautiful 9-year old distro. I have no idea how to automate building this though, in a github sense.

[electronstudio]

I got Claude to do most of it.

Do you need OpenGL 3.3 or will your game run with OpenGL 2.0? I'd prefer to use older OpenGL for these builds.

[glowiak]

@electronstudio OpenGL? DeamDung is 100% software rendered. There are no shaders, no graphics card calls, no OpenGL calls. I think you can even go for OpenGL 1.1.