Which main-xxx's and makefiles can I test with Cygwin or MinGW?

nppangband · August 23, 2010, 00:31

Right now the biggest problem I have is that AFAIK, I can only test the windows version of NPP. It looks like Cygwin and/or MinGW have some sort of support for x-11 or sdl. Is it possible for me to compile and play Angband using different main-xxx besides main-win.c, using a Linux shell in windows?

zaimoni · August 23, 2010, 06:28

Native MingW32 can also manage a curses build using PDCurses. I haven't tested SDL, but think this is possible.

fph · August 23, 2010, 09:43

If you have a modern machine, a valid option for testing Linux builds is a virtualization environment. You can't really be sure that a build tested with Mingw32 won't cause problem when you compile it on the real thing. A minimal xubuntu install + Virtualbox shouldn't take more space than a movie on your hard disk.

August 23, 2010, 00:31	#1
nppangband NPPAngband Maintainer Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Stat Gain, Angband Posts: 926	Which main-xxx's and makefiles can I test with Cygwin or MinGW? Right now the biggest problem I have is that AFAIK, I can only test the windows version of NPP. It looks like Cygwin and/or MinGW have some sort of support for x-11 or sdl. Is it possible for me to compile and play Angband using different main-xxx besides main-win.c, using a Linux shell in windows?

August 23, 2010, 06:28	#2
zaimoni Knight Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 590	Native MingW32 can also manage a curses build using PDCurses. I haven't tested SDL, but think this is possible. __________________ Zaiband: end the "I shouldn't have survived that" experience. V3.0.6 fork on Hg. Zaiband 3.0.10 ETA Mar. 7 2011 (Yes, schedule slipped. Latest testing indicates not enough assert() calls to allow release.) Z.C++: pre-alpha C/C++ compiler system (usable preprocessor). Also on Hg. Z.C++ 0.0.10 ETA December 31 2011

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August 23, 2010, 09:43	#3
fph Veteran Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pisa / DL0 Posts: 1,023	If you have a modern machine, a valid option for testing Linux builds is a virtualization environment. You can't really be sure that a build tested with Mingw32 won't cause problem when you compile it on the real thing. A minimal xubuntu install + Virtualbox shouldn't take more space than a movie on your hard disk.

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