How to compile very old Angband versions?

[lea2501]

I was able to compile version 2.9.3 in linux with this commands

$ curl -OL "https://github.com/angband/angband/archive/refs/tags/v2.9.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf v2.9.3.tar.gz
$ cd angband-2.9.3/
$ ./configure --with-no-install
$ make

However, when i start the game with

./src/angband -uUser -mgcu -- -n1

it fails to start showing a message saying

Savefile does not exist. -more-

Any idea of where i need to create it?

[fph]

Have you tried omitting -uUser ?

[Bill Peterson]

Originally Posted by fph

This reminds me a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon's_Eye , although it's just isometric, not true 3D.

Anyhow, welcome! It seems we have similar tastes in terms of variants.

There is an Angband variant with the isometric look of Falcon's Eye, AngbandTk. It's included with 3 other variants in OmnibandTk. The Angband version that's implemented is 2.9.3

I was surprised that OmnibandTk isn't in this sites variants tab, but I did find a copy using Google, at https://www.dropbox.com/s/delqrrxgun...andtk.zip?dl=0

I can't personally vouch for this copy, it's 18MB while my copy is 20MB.

[Julian]

Originally Posted by lea2501

I was able to compile version 2.9.3 in linux with this commands

$ curl -OL "https://github.com/angband/angband/archive/refs/tags/v2.9.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf v2.9.3.tar.gz
$ cd angband-2.9.3/
$ ./configure --with-no-install
$ make

However, when i start the game with

./src/angband -uUser -mgcu -- -n1

it fails to start showing a message saying

Savefile does not exist. -more-

Any idea of where i need to create it?

No, but it’s probably defined in the code somewhere.

Try this in the source directory:

grep DIR *.[ch] Makefile*

(I think it would look for the lib directory in the current directory if nothing else was defined, but I could be wrong.)

[lea2501]

Originally Posted by Julian

No, but it’s probably defined in the code somewhere.

Try this in the source directory:

grep DIR *.[ch] Makefile*

(I think it would look for the lib directory in the current directory if nothing else was defined, but I could be wrong.)

I tried that but i could not find the savegame file its searching...

lea@devuan:~/games/roguelikes/angband/angband-2.9.3/src$ grep DIR *.[ch] Makefile* | grep ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE
externs.h:extern cptr ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE;
files.c:                path_build(savefile, 1024, ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE, temp);
init2.c:        string_free(ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE);
init2.c:        ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE = string_make("");
init2.c:        ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE = string_make(path);
init2.c:        string_free(ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE);
main.c:                 string_free(ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE);
main.c:                 ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE = string_make(s+1);
main-emx.c:                char **ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE,
main-emx.c:                      (char**)&ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE,
main-gtk.c:             path_build(buf, 1024, ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE, "*");
main-win.c:                             ofn.lpstrInitialDir = ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE;
main-win.c:     validate_dir(ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE);
variable.c:cptr ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE;
lea@devuan:~/games/roguelikes/angband/angband-2.9.3/src$ grep DIR *.[ch] Makefile* | grep savefile
files.c:                path_build(savefile, 1024, ANGBAND_DIR_SAVE, temp);

I also searched in lib but i don't see anything that help me sadly

lea@devuan:~/games/roguelikes/angband/angband-2.9.3$ ls -lahF lib/
total 80K
drwxr-xr-x 13 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:52 apex/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 bone/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:52 data/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 edit/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 file/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 help/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 info/
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea 8.2K Oct 27 23:49 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea  140 Sep 29  2012 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea 8.1K Sep 29  2012 Makefile.in
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 pref/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 save/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 user/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 xtra/
lea@devuan:~/games/roguelikes/angband/angband-2.9.3$ ls -lahF lib/save/
total 28K
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 ./
drwxr-xr-x 13 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea    0 Sep 29  2012 delete.me
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea 5.3K Oct 27 23:49 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea  356 Sep 29  2012 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea 5.3K Sep 29  2012 Makefile.in

[lea2501]

I noticed that the current angband compile i have has the save file in lib/save as you mentioned before:

$ ls -lahF ~/src/angband/lib/save/
total 44K
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 29 22:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 22:52 ../
-rw-------  1 lea lea  34K Oct 29 22:53 User

So i created the file in the old 2.9.3 compile, also copied the current save file there, but the error persist

$ ls -lahF ~/games/roguelikes/angband/angband-2.9.3/lib/save/
total 64K
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 30 07:49 ./
drwxr-xr-x 13 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea    0 Sep 29  2012 delete.me
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea 5.3K Oct 27 23:49 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea  356 Sep 29  2012 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea 5.3K Sep 29  2012 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea  34K Oct 30 07:50 User

[Nick]

Have you tried

~/.angband/Angband/save

the same as modern private user paths? That was present in 2.9.3, I'm not sure if it was used by default, though.

[lea2501]

Originally Posted by Nick

Have you tried

~/.angband/Angband/save

the same as modern private user paths? That was present in 2.9.3, I'm not sure if it was used by default, though.

no, in that directory i have the angband files of my linux distribution (devuan) angband package installed with apt, or you mean to copy that file to the angband 2.9.3 compilation directory?

what i don't understand, is that if i use the following commands:

./configure --prefix $HOME/.angband_2.9.3
make clean
make 
make install

the angband executable and files are in the directory of the src files, and not in the prefixed one.

i also tried the "./configure" with no parameters and i get the same result, the only difference is with "./configure --with-no-install" this gives me the angband executable under the "src" directory, and not in the current directory (the decompressed sources directory)

[Cuboideb]

./src/angband -uUser -mgcu -- -n1

Copy the executable to the parent folder and start it from there.

[lea2501]

Originally Posted by Cuboideb

./src/angband -uUser -mgcu -- -n1

Copy the executable to the parent folder and start it from there.

but this is the current version in this directory, that works perfectly, no "Savefile does not exist. -more-" error, the problem is the 2.9.3 version, that no matter what i try, i get that error after compile.