Getting Angband from Github and compiling it

[ChodTheWacko]

Originally Posted by myshkin

Frank, is there a particular reason you want to use CSV? What tool do you plan to use to manipulate the data? The database is fairly relational.

I actually work for an open source database company so I'd really prefer to use my own product. Not to mention, I'm more familiar with it so the idea of doing something more ambitious appeals to me. For example, setting up a web page so you can run whatever the hell kind of query you feel like against the data.

It's not so much CSV, it's just a more portable data format.

- Frank

[myshkin]

Originally Posted by ChodTheWacko

I actually work for an open source database company so I'd really prefer to use my own product. Not to mention, I'm more familiar with it so the idea of doing something more ambitious appeals to me. For example, setting up a web page so you can run whatever the hell kind of query you feel like against the data.

It's not so much CSV, it's just a more portable data format.

- Frank

I'd just generate the sqlite database and then dump to SQL, unless your database is not a SQLish one. If you really want, though, you can modify the stats code to call your database's API instead. If it's demonstrably better, we'd probably accept patches.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by ChodTheWacko

I actually work for an open source database company so I'd really prefer to use my own product. Not to mention, I'm more familiar with it so the idea of doing something more ambitious appeals to me. For example, setting up a web page so you can run whatever the hell kind of query you feel like against the data.

We already have that - but perhaps you mean for people to generate queries without using SQL? That would be extremely cool, if you can come up with some sort of query interface. I would definitely put that on my site for people too.

[ChodTheWacko]

Originally Posted by Magnate

We already have that - but perhaps you mean for people to generate queries without using SQL? That would be extremely cool, if you can come up with some sort of query interface. I would definitely put that on my site for people too.

Yea, some kind of form, not raw SQL (which can take forever to run if you don't have the appropriate indexes for your query). I don't know when I have the time to do this, but it would be a fun project.

I'll probably just download/build/dump the stats on a linux machine at work, then export it to whever. Probably overall easier than getting it all to work on windows. Thanks for the suggestion, guys.

- Frank

[ehertlein]

I am having a real issue getting the latest code to build with Visual Studio Express 2010. Anyone out there having any luck?

I am trying to build from the command line with nmake /F Makefile.nmake

[Azerath]

How you building "with VS 2010 Ex" using nmake? nmake is part of Win SDK.

[ehertlein]

Originally Posted by Azerath

How you building "with VS 2010 Ex" using nmake? nmake is part of Win SDK.

I have installed Visual Studio 2010 Express. I choose Visual Studio 2010 Express -> Visual Studio Tools -> Visual Studio 2010 Command Line. I navigate the to angband src directory and type nmake /F Makefile.nmake.

I am not trying to build within the IDE if thats what you are asking.

[remen]

4. Change directory into dirname, and that's basically it - you are now able to build

That's only beginning :-)

Could someone describe the sequence of the next steps for Linux?

./autogen.sh
./configure
make distclean



In my case (Ubuntu)./autogen.sh output is

*info* running aclocal (-I m4)
./autogen.sh: 49: aclocal: not found
*error* aclocal failed. (exit code = 127)

So i guess I'm doing something wrong.

[PowerDiver]

Type aclocal at a command prompt. You might see something like

aclocal
The program 'aclocal' can be found in the following packages:
 * automake
 * automake1.10
 * automake1.4
 * automake1.9
 * automake1.7
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

in which case you need to install automake. It is also likely that you will need to install libx11-dev.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by PowerDiver

Type aclocal at a command prompt. You might see something like

aclocal
The program 'aclocal' can be found in the following packages:
 * automake
 * automake1.10
 * automake1.4
 * automake1.9
 * automake1.7
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

in which case you need to install automake. It is also likely that you will need to install libx11-dev.

That's a neat feature. On my system you'd have to use apt-cache search aclocal or apt-file search aclocal. Anyway, the full set of deps can be installed with

sudo apt-get install build-essential debhelper autotools-dev libncursesw5-dev libglade2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsqlite3-dev libtexlive-latex-extra

Note that you can get away with fewer if you don't need certain modules built:

libncursesw5-dev is for the -mgcu port
libglade2-dev is for the -mgtk port
libsdl* are for the -msdl port
libsqlite3-dev is for the -mstats module (needs 3GB RAM!)

You can remove any of these, though if you remove libglade2-dev you will need to install libx11-dev explicitly to build the -mx11 port, along with libice6-dev and libsm6-dev.

texlive-latex-extra is for the 3.3.x documentation, which has been replaced in 3.4-dev versions by RST docs, so this is only necessary if you are building 3.3.x

Also, please note that make distclean will undo the changes made by running autogen.sh and configure, so the correct sequence of commands is

./autogen.sh
./configure --with-my-options
make
make install