Downloads: XIDX (IDX packer/extractor) binary distribution

This tool is a successor to the old XIDX tool by Vercingetorix.

Original available at EBII's ftp server: ftp://europabarbarorum.org/XIDX-bin-dist.7z

This is the binary distribution consisting of a 7zip archive of (currently) approximately 141KB. It includes the following binaries: Linux ELF binary for AMD64 systems (bin/xidx), Windows PE binary for 32bit systems (bin/xidx_x86.exe) and a Windows PE binary for 64bit systems (bin/xidx_amd64.exe). Additionally it contains a readme and program licence. Programs such as 7-zip can be used to extract these contents. (You can get 7-zip from here: http://www.7-zip.org/ or commandline equivalent p7zip from here: http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ )

For the source code, please refer to the source distribution instead.

Main changes

• Tool now runs on other environments besides Windows.
• General reliability improvements and bug fixing (segfaults).
  Fix for relative pathnames specified on the commandline (or elsewhere).
  Fix for memory allocation which brings memory requirements down significantly, especially for lots of small files.
• Able to write M2TW versions of RTW pack file formats.
• Support unpacking event packs (data/sounds/events.idx & data/sounds/events.dat).
• Support for transparently adding/stripping file name extensions (useful for avoiding problems when unpacking skeletons which usually have the same name as the directory containing animations for it).

The tool remains available under the GPL v2, or at your option a later version:
Terms of Use

This software is free and there is no warranty what so ever. Use at your own risk.
See licence.txt for a copy of the program licence.

Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Vercingetorix <vercingetorix11 at gmail dot com>
Copyright (C) 2011 The Europa Barbarorum Team <webmaster at europabarbarorum dot com>

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 A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details at
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt

For more information and feedback, please see the discussion thread for this tool.