LordStephen77 / deutex

WAD composer for Doom, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife

DeuTex

DeuTex can do many things with Doom, Freedoom, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife “WAD” files, such as extracting and inserting graphics, sounds, levels, and other resources. It can be used for creating and modifying IWAD and PWAD files both.

Building and installing

DeuTex uses an Autoconf+Automake build system, so its compilation and installation process is identical to most other Unix packages:

./configure
make
make install

When building directly from the version control repository, you will need autoconf and automake installed and run the ./bootstrap command first to generate the ./configure file.

To build and install the manpage, AsciiDoc must be installed, in particular the DocBook-based a2x command for transforming it into manpage format. DeuTex will still build without it, however.

To build and install on ReactOS or Microsoft Windows will require an environment compatible with Unix shells and programs, such as Cygwin or MSYS2.

Old versions of DeuTex ran on DOS and OS/2, but support has been removed with no current plans to restore them. As DeuTex gains new features, old versions may not be usable with current build scripts.

History

DeuTex began life as a fork of Doom Editing Utilities (known as DEU for short) by Olivier Montanuy in 1994, expunging the graphical user interface in favor of command line and scriptable usage scenarios. Originally written for DOS, its primary home is now Unix systems, and is a fundamental piece to building Freedoom’s playable WAD files.

The name comes from a play on LaTeX and in turn TeX, a popular typesetting system in academia but no technical connection to DeuTex. It is pronounced as two syllables, the first like “due” or “dew,” and the second like “tech” (not “tex”!), owing from its namesake.

Copyright

Copyright © 1994-1996 Olivier Montanuy, © 1999-2005 André Majorel, © 2006-2017 contributors to the DeuTex project.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details, provided under the name COPYING.