Native Linux Port using DXVK Native

[siredmar]

Hi!

I'm totally not an expert when it comes to porting DirectX to other platforms. I can see progress building this with MinGW which is great, but I am wondering if it would be possible at all to create a native Linux Port using DXVK Native as library to have a kind of drop in replacement for all the Direct3D stuff.

I'm pretty sure i'm not the first person that had thought about this.

CC: @Fighter19

[feliwir]

@siredmar
We have already done this on our fork (see @Fighter19's repo).

I think the long term goal should be to switch to a platform agnostic rendering backend like Vulkan or OpenGL. DXVK will not improve the macOS situation.

[siredmar]

@feliwir oh cool! didn't have a look at the repo itself though.

Are there any special build instructions besides installing the vcpkg dependencies and running cmake?

[Fighter19]

Not really, you might want to be aware, that if you're not using a Steam installation,
that it's necessary to set the environment variables "CNC_ZH_[...]" and "CNC_GENERALS_[...]" to their respective values, as they would have been in the Windows registry.

For example "CNC_GENERALS_INSTALLDIR" to point to the base game dir or "CNC_ZH_LANGUAGE=German" in case you use a different language (untested).

Also we currently only start/test with "-win". According to d10sfan, Fullscreen is broken.

He also provides a simpler installation process via Luxtorpeda if you're just interested in running it.

[siredmar]

Thanks! Indeed I'm interested in building this.
I'm trying to get this to build and write up a little Readme for building your Fork.