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For all those wishing to play Baldur's Gate I on IRIX, here are the steps:


1. Dependencies

These are the system provided libraries you will need to get GemRB running:

/usr/lib32/libfreetype.so (2.1.3) - xpdf.sw.xpdf (6.5.30 Applications CD)
/usr/lib32/libpng.so (1.2.8)  - ifl_eoe.sw.c++ (6.5.30 Overlays 2 of 3 CD)
/usr/freeware/lib32/libogg.so.1  - fw_libogg.sw.lib (Freeware May 2004 CD 3)
/usr/freeware/lib32/libvorbis.so.1 - fw_libvorbis.sw.lib (Freeware May 2004 CD 3)
/usr/lib32/libaudio.so  - dmedia_eoe.sw.audio (6.5.30 Overlays 2 of 3 CD)
/usr/lib32/libXext.so  - x_eoe.sw.eoe (6.5.30 Installation Tools and Overlays 1 of 3 CD)
/usr/freeware/lib32/libreadline.so.4 - fw_readline (Freeware May 2004 CD 4)
/usr/freeware/lib32/libintl.so.3 - fw_gettext (Freeware May 2004 CD 2)
/usr/lib32/libcurses.so - eoe.sw.base (6.5.30 Installation Tools and Overlays 1 of 3)


Get the freeware CDs here: CD1, CD2, CD3, CD4.


2. Baldur's Gate I installation folder

You need the game folder on your machine in order to play the game.

The folder is a 2.3GB large tarred file, split up into 5 parts:

Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.


To recreate the single tar file, you will need a total of ~5GB free disk space:

# cat bg1.tar.part* > bg1.tar
# rm bg1.tar.part*
# gtar -xf bg1.tar
# rm bg1.tar

Now you have the game folder bg1.


3. Install GemRB

Download this tar file, untar into /usr/dist, and install all products with swmgr.

The products are:

GemRB_0_8_4
Python_2_7_15
SDL_1_2_15
libiconv_1_14
zlib_1_2_7
FLAC_1_2_1
FluidSynth_1_1_5
SDL_mixer_1_2_12
glib_2_6_5
libmikmod_3_1_12
libogg_1_1_2
smpeg_0_4_5


4. Edit /usr/local/etc/gemrb/GemRB.cfg

Set GamePath to the path of your bg1 game folder.

For example:

GamePath=/usr/people/root/bg1


5. Run gemrb

# gemrb



Have fun

Tru