Trying to compile well-documented github projects is a crap shoot half the time. iirc no one figured out how to compile the Windows XP source code when it got leaked and it’s long gone so no one can try
Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked
000@fuck.markets 6 months ago
Are there any links floating around to download said code? The various tweets/articles seem to suggest it leaked in one Discord server, and nobody’s providing a link to that Discord nor a mirror of the code.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 months ago
My experience with large projects is that the bigger they get, the more their build systems turn into large projects in their own right. Maintaining the build for something like Windows is probably many people’s full-time job, so it’s no surprise a bunch of amateurs with no docs couldn’t do it.
Electromechanical_Supergiant@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Is it possible to create a custom build system by compiling little bits at a time?
For example, you find the opengl code (or whatever gfx lib they’re using), strip it down it only displays a window and doesn’t reference any other gta code. Then it could be compiled without much trouble. Then another small system, say matrix transforms, can be isolated from the original code and integrated with the custom code to get it to compile.
This way you are creating your own build system ad hoc, and you find out what it needs as subsystems are added. Provided the code is decently decoupled and modular, it should be theoretically possible, even if it is still an absurd amount of work.
Or does this sound completely wacky to you?
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I agree generally. Here lately I’ve taken the plunge and compiled everything from source (Linux). While tricky on some, (dependencies mostly), the outcome is unusually stable. More stable than expected.
TheBat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Does this mean we’re not going to see community enhanced version of GTAV? I thought the game was disappointing when compared to GTA:SA. The world feels empty and the campaign is too short.
coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Even made a new account for it. Just to be sure.
khronos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have a download link (and the password), someoje posted it on the ycombinator thread. Not sure if I can post it here.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I know there’s nothing original about that but God damn I hate that a chat platform somehow became used to transfer info… We’re overdue for a forum Renaissance.
tourist@lemmy.world 6 months ago
WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You got a point
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Forgot to mention that you have to give them your phone number. That one really pisses me off.
n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
You dont want my credit card? Where do I sign up?
QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Discord got problems… but none of those things I’ve encountered. Save for the
And are you really going to complain about being shown the rules of the place before use? You got a point on notifications too but that’s it. Annoying, but easy to deal with (right click server, disable notifications, boom done that’s it.)
The other shit I could be easily convinced you’re straight up making up.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Forgot the part where you are sometimes FORCED to join some discord server, be it for downloading a mod just one time or troubleshoot something else. And then sometimes comes the part you listed.
Neato@kbin.social 6 months ago
Didn't we use things like irc in the past?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah and it sucked for archival purposes then and it still sucks now and forums took its place and that’s still where serious people go to talk about their field, but somehow there’s some fields where people have forgotten that.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just thinking about the fields and fields of car, electric, and plumbing forums all sitting out there with broken links and dead photobucket / imgur embedded pictures…
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
You aren’t “archiving” shit of this magnitude. Forums and hosts get the real letters and even the more permissive countries and hosts tend to have minimal issues taking action for these kinds of leaks. They are just as transient as chat rooms with a much bigger investment to run
Which leave “dark web” sites that very much do exist but don’t get linked in news articles
seathru@lemm.ee 6 months ago
And Usenet before that.
quo@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Even with logs they’re still a party because without threads it’s just questions getting twisted again and again and again without being able to refer the person to a previous part of the discussion where they could find all answers they need…