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Take a look under the hood and perhaps add a tweak or 2.

WARNING

There have been misunderstandings about the source code in the past time. This project is NOT OpenSource. The source code IS and will REMAIN for the oncoming time copyright (c) of Ruud van Gaal / Dolphinity BV. The source code is provided for general interest, and to build platform-specific versions (for Linux mainly) in case the provided binaries don't work.

All suggested changes to the source code will be reviewed by me, but before you do that, realise that the source code will remain copyrighted. Fixes are appreciated ofcourse, but I would advise against putting much into bigger things.

NOTE: The source code (for v0.5.0) is Linux-only (though you may get it to work for Windows/Mac).

HOW DO I GET THE SOURCE?

• Download the source code (Linux, v0.5.0, 1.7Mb, 8-7-03)
• Now, unzip/untar the source code qirg 'tar zxvf rr050src.tgz'.

GETTING IT TO COMPILE ON LINUX

You'll need GNU C++ (gcc). Then, do the following:

• Go into the source directory (i.e. 'cd rr050src').
• Type 'make' and be patient.
• Hopefully all goes well and a binary is in src/racer/main/racer.

In case of trouble, try this:

• If you get unresolved symbols like 'glXGetVideoSyncSGIX()', you might try skimming the source code to hunt for the few occasions that this is used. Funnily enough, the symbol seems to exist on my Linux install.
  Same for 'glBlendColorEXT'; you might try 'glBlendColor' instead.

GETTING IT TO COMPILE ON WINDOWS

The source code is old and I haven't looked at this for many years now. However, you may get somewhere on Windows with the Source DSP/DSW files pack (along with the original source package above). The DSP files are in Visual C++ 6 format (these days I'm using Visual Studio 2008).

Just add the extra files into the source directory tree from above and try to open it.

SOURCE DOCUMENTATION

There is an old generated documentation of the Racer libraries and applications (last update: v0.4).

(last updated November 13, 2012 )