3.5-nightly-compile/link error. (Linux)

[Spacebux]

Originally Posted by Derakon

I suggested making certain that you were using the correct Makefile; it seemed like whatever you were using was failing to define at least one important constant. I don't know if Makefile.std is necessarily the one to use, but the comments at the top indicate it's the right one for Linux. You'd use Makefile.osx for Macs, of course, and Makefile.win for Windows (dunno if that's cygwin/mingw or Visual Studio or what).

I gave Makefile.std a whirl - crash & burn... worse than the first one.


Guess I have to keep playing on Windoze for the meantime...

[Spacebux]

ok, to resolve, I simply added in a number to the empty array in main.c.


Old main.c:42: static const struct module modules[] =


New main.c:42: static const struct module modules[8] =


I still have the warning about line 43, ISO C forbids empty initializer braces
but, compiled all the way through. Yay.

[Spacebux]

... and, then, make install tripped up in the documentation phase. (I guess I'm the only one still grappling with Linux thesedays.)

make install ...
.
.
.
Entering directory doc.
/bin/sh: rst2html: command not found
Failed to compile ../lib/help/index.txt!

--- Installed python-docutils package ---

Much better. Might want to have "Need python-docutils package installed" listed somewhere in the compile.txt file.

[Spacebux]

Seg fault.

Maybe the ISO C warning is more than just a warning....

[Derakon]

Yeah, I think that patching that modules list by just inserting a dummy variable wasn't the right idea. Sure it makes the compile error go away, but it doesn't fix the underlying problem that that error was telling you about. You really need to have at least one of USE_X11, USE_SDL, or USE_GCU defined or else the game won't know how to run.

[Spacebux]

Originally Posted by Derakon

Yeah, I think that patching that modules list by just inserting a dummy variable wasn't the right idea. Sure it makes the compile error go away, but it doesn't fix the underlying problem that that error was telling you about. You really need to have at least one of USE_X11, USE_SDL, or USE_GCU defined or else the game won't know how to run.

Hmmm... leaving it blank is optimal, but the linker doesn't want to fill it with the appropriate value.

I thought the autogen.sh script specified which module to set.

Time to do more research.

[Blue Baron]

Originally Posted by Spacebux

Hmmm... leaving it blank is optimal, but the linker doesn't want to fill it with the appropriate value.

I thought the autogen.sh script specified which module to set.

Time to do more research.

Did you run configure after autogen and before make? something like:
./configure --enable-sdl --with-no-install

[Spacebux]

Originally Posted by Blue Baron

Did you run configure after autogen and before make? something like:
./configure --enable-sdl --with-no-install

Not with an --enable-xxx flag. Which would be the appropriate flag for Linux, X11? I'm running the Gnome desktop, so I'm quite sure X11 will work.

........suppose I could give it a whirl and see.

[Spacebux]

no X11 libraries installed...

[AnonymousHero]

Originally Posted by Spacebux

[root@mb1 angband-dev]# make

I'm afraid I don't have any help for your issue, but the command snippet you pasted seems to indicate that you're logging in and compiling as the "root" user. I just wanted to say: please don't do that -- it's incredibly unsafe and a single bad makefile can compromise your machine or delete all your files.

Btw, love the machine name .