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The official Id Software source code for Doom 3 is 15 years old and has not compiled on a modern system for some time. There are already some workarounds in this PKGBUILD, but it requires a ton of legacy packages to be installed and still may not function at runtime as expected (see comments below). At this point, trying to get the original 2011 doom3 source running on a 2026 bleeding edge operating system is a senseless exercise.

I recommend modern source ports which are faithful to the original game, but have been maintained over time, such as dhewm3 for original Doom 3 or rbdoom-3-bfg for Doom 3 BFG.

The official Id Software source code for Doom 3 is 15 years old and has not compiled on a modern system for some time. There are already some workarounds in this PKGBUILD, but it requires a ton of legacy packages to be installed and still may not function at runtime as expected (see comments below). At this point, trying to get the original 2011 doom3 source running on a 2026 bleeding edge operating system is a senseless exercise.

I recommend modern source ports which are faithful to the original game, but have been maintained over time, such as dhewm3 for original Doom 3 or rbdoom-3-bfg for Doom 3 BFG.

Build fails:

In file included from sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.c:6:
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.c:44:37: error: conflicting types for ‘close_display’; have ‘int(Display *, XExtCodes *)’
   44 | static XEXT_GENERATE_CLOSE_DISPLAY (close_display, nvctrl_ext_info)
      |                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/extutil.h:201:5: note: in definition of macro ‘XEXT_GENERATE_CLOSE_DISPLAY’
  201 | int proc (Display *dpy, XExtCodes *codes) \
      |     ^~~~
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.c:23:12: note: previous declaration of ‘close_display’ with type ‘int(void)’
   23 | static int close_display();
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.c:311:13: error: conflicting types for ‘wire_to_event’; have ‘int(Display *, XEvent *, xEvent *)’ {aka ‘int(Display *, XEvent *, struct _xEvent *)’}
  311 | static Bool wire_to_event (Display *dpy, XEvent *host, xEvent *wire)
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.c:24:13: note: previous declaration of ‘wire_to_event’ with type ‘int(void)’
   24 | static Bool wire_to_event();
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.c:23:12: warning: ‘close_display’ used but never defined
   23 | static int close_display();
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.c:24:13: warning: ‘wire_to_event’ used but never defined
   24 | static Bool wire_to_event();
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.c:311:13: warning: ‘wire_to_event’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
  311 | static Bool wire_to_event (Display *dpy, XEvent *host, xEvent *wire)
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.c:44:37: warning: ‘close_display’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
   44 | static XEXT_GENERATE_CLOSE_DISPLAY (close_display, nvctrl_ext_info)
      |                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/extutil.h:201:5: note: in definition of macro ‘XEXT_GENERATE_CLOSE_DISPLAY’
  201 | int proc (Display *dpy, XExtCodes *codes) \
      |     ^~~~
scons: *** [build/release/core/sys/linux/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.o] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.
==> BŁĄD: Wystąpił błąd w build().
    Przerywam...

@Hekuran - I think using a more modern source port is the way to go at this point. The original versions of doom3 are really old and becoming increasingly difficult to run. I don't personally have the bandwidth to debug segfaults on built versions of this package (although I don't know if it is everyone or just your setup).

Try dhewm3 for original Doom 3 or rbdoom-3-bfg for Doom 3 BFG.

Installed successfully, also added the missing .pk4 files. But it will not run. It goes fullscreen, 2 seconds loading screen then crashes. Here are my logs:

doom3: https://pastebin.com/raw/HXJvsynh

doom3-dedicated: https://pastebin.com/raw/HXJvsynh

my specs: https://pastebin.com/raw/fj2XZKnr

but when i would install doom3-bin it would run, but then it would ask me for a CD-Key even though i had already placed all the .pk3 in /opt/doom3/base/

(Also for doom3-dedicated to run i had to do ln -sf /opt/doom3/doom.x86 /opt/doom3/doomded.x86. Didt know where else to ask thanks!)

OK, thanks for the info. I'll switch to doom3-bin.

The scons scripts to build the source code only work with python2 (thus the error @chovy experienced). Someone would need to port them to python3. If you don't want to build the source code, then you can look into doom3-bin which simply uses the upstream binary.

Is there any chance that the python2 dependency will be replaced by python3 ? As far as I understand, it is a build dependency, so not needed for running the program itself. I just checked that scons 3.x runs with python2 and python3, and it is available in the extra repository. However, I don't know if any of the scons scripts can be run with python3 directly or need to be converted.

I'm asking this because I've recently put some effort in getting rid of python2 on my system and I'd prefer not to get it back, as python2 has reached EOL quite some time ago.

@chovy - scons uses Python and the doom3 scons scripts require Python2. I updated the dependencies to use scons2 from the AUR.

I also applied the patch @sxw mentioned and created another patch for a math constant that changed over the years.

scons: Reading SConscript files ...
  File "/home/ettinger/bin/doom3/src/doom3.gpl/neo/SConstruct", line 197

    print 'Loading build configuration from ' + conf_filename + ':'

          ^

SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print('Loading build configuration from ' + conf_filename + ':')?

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

same error that necrmortis

change the line like sxw suggest it make no change :/