Building vkQuake 1.22.0 on FreeBSD
The FreeBSD port is relatively old, and doesn’t support SDL 2.2. So I built version 1.22.0, which is current at the time of writing.
The requirements are the same als the port.
Download the source
From https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake/releases.
Put it in ~/tmp.
Build the source
It also has a meson/ninja build system, but the Makefile in the Quake
subdirectory works fine with gmake.
Note that the DO_USERDIRS feature seems to be broken.
Even if I set it, vkQuake still requires the -basedir argument to run.
cd tmp/src
tar xf ../vkQuake-1.22.0.tar.gz
cd vkQuake-1.22.0/Quake/
gmake -j 4 -e MP3LIB=mpg123 -e USE_CODEC_FLAC=1
install -m 700 vkquake ~/.local/bin/
cd ../..
rm -rf vkQuake-1.22.0
Run it
Create a directory $HOME/.vkquake/id1.
Copy the quake files pak0.pak and pak1.pak there.
Note
As of release 1.22.0, the configuration file is vkQuakge.cfg.
So you should probably rename $HOME/.vkquake/id1/config.cfg to
$HOME/.vkquake/id1/vkQuake.cfg.
Then create an alias.
alias quake vkquake -basedir ${HOME}/.vkquake
Now you can type quake to play.
Mods
After downloading the “arcane dimensions” mod, I installed it in
~/.vkquake/ad, and ran it with
vkquake -basedir ${HOME}/.vkquake -game ad.
For comments, please send me an e-mail.