Running dom3 under Linuxbase on FreeBSD

[Kamamura]

Originally Posted by lch

Here's my cheap two-step "How to get Dominions 3 running" guide for any Linux and BSD derivative:

- install Wesnoth. This game should be available in all the distributions through the normal package repository.
- install Dominions. All the necessary dependencies should have been pulled in by Wesnoth.

That would not work FreeBSD, because while Wesnoth is compiled natively and the resulting binaries are runable directly on FreeBSD, Dominions are installed as Linux binaries, so you need all the LinuxBase infrastructure in place to run it. Wesnoth requires no such thing and won't do it for you.

One more addendum for the procedure I described above:

You need to enable Linux binary compatibility either by compiling the kernel with the following directive:

options   COMPAT_LINUX

or by loading the corresponding kernel module with:

kldload linux