Libraries for LINUX?

Can't help on the libs question, but for installs, linux is a free-for-all. However, for cross-platform projects, you might check into BitRock Installer which works on linux and windows both. It's cheap for commercial projects and free for bona fide open source projects.

I was under the impression that Miles had a port: NWN uses it.

As for Smacker, I know Bink is available on Linux.

For installation, there are a variety of packages but I recommend the Loki installer.

any installer that checkinstall will work with is a good installer. Anyone know if loki or any of these other will work with checkinstall?

Thanks!

I'm looking into all of this now. RAD doesn't mention anything for LINUX on their site, but it may be that it's BETA or they just don't advertise it.

Thanks again and I'll report what I find out!

Most of the Linux users would be happy with a tar.gz installer :)

...except me. I'd rather have an "apt-get" installer ;-)

Yes, RAD makes a version of both Miles and Bink for Linux, so I think we're in business. They say they have only used redhat 9 GCC 3.0. If we made this our development environment, would we end up with a version of the game that most Linux users could install and play?
Also, I wish I was more of a Linux geek (working on it), but I'm afraid I don't really understand what some of you are saying about the various Linux installers. Are these similar to Wise, Setup Factory, etc.? Or are they more like just a big zip file?

Thanks for all of the help!

if you decide to package it as a .tgz, do us all a favor and DON'T build it from the root of the drive. I don't want a game installing crap everywhere from /usr to /usr/local to /usr/lib .... I want to put it where I want it, unzip it, and have game/lib, game/bin, etc.... so I know where it all lives when I want to trash it.