[http://www.klumpp.net/blog/archives/262-Klein-PC-Raspberry-Pi-Action-Quake-2-Server-mit-allen-Schikanen.html Deutsche Version. (There's a German version of this article.)]

The //[http://www.raspberrypi.org Raspberry Pi]// computer has a price tag of $35, which makes the credit card sized device extremely affordable. It's very versatile when it's used as a PC and it's quite surprising how much computing power such a little device possesses. Lots of people are using their device as a home theater personal computer (HTPC, for example with [http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Raspberry_Pi XMBC]). Others use it as a small web server or as a development computer for the porting of software to the ARM processor architecture.

The game //[http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake/quake2 Quake 2]// by id Software already has been around for a while now. It was published at the end of 1997. Despite this, there is still an active and flourishing community around the game. Action Quake 2 (AQ2) is a community driven modification of Quake 2, which is getting more and more popular (see http://www.aq2world.com). A part of the reason behind this is the freely available source code, which regularly gets refined by a few developers that continue to develop it further and further. The most prominent example of this is //[http://git.skuller.net/q2pro/log Q2Pro]// and the modification //[https://github.com/hifi/aq2-tng AQ2-TNG]//.

Just a short time ago I have built an automatic installation script for the AQ2 Game Server (https://bitbucket.org/PaulKlumpp/aq2-basesrv). It works fine with 32 and 64 bit Intel and AMD processors. It installs all the bells and whistles that one needs for an AQ2 server nowadays. I didn't consider the Raspberry Pi though. Due to a friend's request, I had a short look at the source code and found out that an AQ2 Server would work on a Raspberry Pi with just a few modifications of the code! \o \o/ o// - Well, Debian Linux is required ;-)!

The Procedure: * Install the required packages as ROOT. These aren't checked by the installation script (yet):

apt-get install zlib1g-dev apt-get install liblua5.1-0-dev apt-get install git

• Get the installation package as a USER with git: cd git clone https://bitbucket.org/PaulKlumpp/aq2-basesrv.git

• The first compilation attempt will acquire the remaining sources: cd ~/aq2-basesrv/q2compile/ ./makeandput_all.sh update

• First change for the Raspi: adjust the q2admin source for the ARM processor cd ~/aq2-basesrv/q2compile/q2admin/src

Edit the file q2a_main.c. In line 28 there is a #if #elif block. You'll have to add the following line above #else :

#elif defined (arm)

define DLLNAME "gamearm.real.so"

• The second required compilation attempt:

cd aq2-basesrv/q2compile/ ./makeandput_all.sh update

• The second change for the Raspi: We aren't finished yet, because the AQ2-TNG mod was wrongfully saved as 'gamei386.so' . That's why you need to copy it by hand:

cp ~/aq2-basesrv/q2compile/aq2-tng/source/gamei386.so ~/aq2-basesrv/q2compile/aq2-tng/source/gamearm.so

• The third compilation attempt runs through and installs everything:

cd aq2-basesrv/q2compile/ ./makeandput_all.sh update

Everything is installed now and at the right place. At least it should be like that ;). You should really read the README in the folder {{~/aq2-basesrv/}}!

For more information or to solve issues together you should come to //our// IRC channel: #aq2world on irc.quakenet.org. Please read the README before though. ;-) You can get to the IRC channel either via the [http://webchat.quakenet.org/ Quakenet Webchat], or you can use the IRC client of your choice. For Windows [http://www.mirc.com mIRC] is the most used client and a good choice.

Have fun with it!

//This article is part of Adventblogging 2012.//