Compiling on lubuntu

[fph]

Originally Posted by PopTart

Same problem when I use -msdl2. But I will try this no-install option, thank you!

Does `configure` confirms that those SDL frontends have been compiled in? If you look at the end of that wall of text usually it tells you if all the required headers have been detected correctly. (Note that you can re-run `configure` if you wish to check its output.)

[invisibletroll]

Don't configure with "--enable-sdl". Use "--enable-sdl2".

[PopTart]

Originally Posted by fph

Does `configure` confirms that those SDL frontends have been compiled in? If you look at the end of that wall of text usually it tells you if all the required headers have been detected correctly. (Note that you can re-run `configure` if you wish to check its output.)

It confirms that SDL2 has been compiled in.

[PopTart]

It could have to do with

1. I'm running Lubuntu, which maybe can't support SDL2
2. Intel Atom processor, not AMD

[fph]

That's quite strange; none of these facts should have an impact. If `configure` finds all the required headers and confirms in the final messages that the SDL2 support is going to be included in the build, then it means it should be supported, no matter what distro or architecture you are using. That's precisely the job of a configure script, to confirm that all the required libraries and dependencies are there.

Be sure that you have rebuilt everything after the last configuration change: `./configure --with-your-favorite-options` followed by `make clean` and `make` just to be 200% sure you rebuild everything from scratch.

[invisibletroll]

Originally Posted by fph

That's quite strange; none of these facts should have an impact. If `configure` finds all the required headers and confirms in the final messages that the SDL2 support is going to be included in the build, then it means it should be supported, no matter what distro or architecture you are using. That's precisely the job of a configure script, to confirm that all the required libraries and dependencies are there.

Be sure that you have rebuilt everything after the last configuration change: `./configure --with-your-favorite-options` followed by `make clean` and `make` just to be 200% sure you rebuild everything from scratch.

Don't feed the troll.

[PopTart]

So, I want to backup my character save file before doing this. I have run configure and confirmed that my character opens. Where is this character file saved? Configure states that it is in ~/.angband/Angband/ but it's not there.

What is in that folder, incidentally, is my .prf file for my character and window.prf. The game remembers the keyboard shortcuts I created, and my subwindow setup, but not the location of the subwindows. And I have remembered to save the subwindow setup to my character's .prf file, and also to load the .prf file in the = menu, but it doesn't work. This is one of my main reasons for wanting to use SDL2.

Anyway, where is my character file?

[PopTart]

Okay, found my savefile. Took me a while. That's what I get for naming my character Lubuntu!

The game saves in a subdirectory within the original unzip directory. This is strange at first thought, but it explains why my saves have persisted through all these re-configures and re-makes.

[PopTart]

Success in getting the SDL2 version to run! Seems like the answer was

make clean
make
sudo make install

[PopTart]

The saga continues

The mouse clicks aren't registering in any of the menus. They are registering in the main window of the game, bringing up options and moving the player character, but not the menus.

I should be able to set up the subwindows by editing sdl2init.txt. Now to find a specification for it...