DOOM on Fastly Compute

There is a multi-step process to building DOOM for Compute, as it is cobbled together from pieces of different eras.

1. If you need to change the HTML that drives the app, you should modify index.html or index_sp.html depending on whether you are building the single player or (unsupported) multiplayer version. Then, compile and run prepweb by doing cc prepweb.c -o prepweb and then running ./prepweb <index> with either 1 (multiplayer) or 2 (singleplayer). So ./prepweb 2 would prep index_sp.html into the linuxdoom-1.10 directory. The reason this is done is to append newlines onto it so that the C can more easily load it when it needs to serve it. (see memorywad.). If there's a better way to handle that load, please feel free to fix this.

2. navigate to the linuxdoom-1.10 directory and run make.

3. navigate to the compute folder and run fastly compute pack -w ../linuxdoom-1.10/linux/linuxxdoom && fastly compute deploy NOTE: [email protected] currently has access to the Compute service so you will need to talk to them.

References

Fastly DOOM Demo Documentation

Fastly Blog: Porting DOOM to Compute@Edge