Talk:Compiling

The Geek: Just wondering, why is the DOS version of the OHRRPGCE being compiled in QB and not FBDOS?

Mike Caron: If it 'aint broke, don't mangle it horribly.

Seriously, it would be far too much trouble to use the dos version to compile it, when QB does it just fine.

Bob: Someday after we drop QB support, and if I can get FreeDOS installed, I may try building and testing a FB/DOS version. But it is no kind of priority.

The Geek: Ah, I thought it might be something like that.

Raekuul, the accidental discoverer of inane errors: Yet Another Error, this time with compiling.

Bob the Hamster you are compiling using the makegame-gfx-music.bat script without specifying which graphics and music backend you want. Try makegame-gfx-music.bat fb2 native and see if that gives you better results

Raekuul It still giveth me the error.

Moved from 'Compiling in Linux'

Simple, eh? (Well, not quite. There may be dependencies and whatnot that may need to be installed. I am not sure what they are, though. Someone, clarify! I know FMOD /was/ needed, but I don't know now.)

Bob: FMOD is no longer required, but either SDL_Mixer or Allegro is required. I would realy love to take a try at properly packaging FreeBasic for Debian, with correct dependencies and everything. Maybe a Fedora Core user could try to make a rpm file too.

A C Compiler

Bob the Hamster: This article says you need to install a C compiler before you can compile the ohrrpgce using scons, but I am not sure if this is true. There is only one line that references CC, and it is commented out. Also, the windows nightly build computer uses scons, and I am 99% sure I have never installed a C compiler on it.

The Mad Cacti: scons compiles blit.c and base64.c, and also audwrap.cpp if compiling with music_native or _native2, so you must have a C and C++ compiler installed. On the other hand, Makefile and the batch scripts link to precompiled win32/*.o files on Windows. Also, there are 4 lines referencing CC, and none of them are commented out. Are you looking at the same file as me?

Bob the Hamster: I am looking at SConscript, line 206 and 214. Anyway, I just checked the nightly build system, and yes indeed, it does have mingw gcc 4.4.0 on it. Yay! I don't remember doing that :) I must have done it for some other project and forgot it was there.

The Mad Cacti: Good god James, you've spent too much time in FB. ' doesn't start a comment in Python! Also, I suppose this means that the Windows nightly build machine is running with a modified makeboth.bat, I'd guess, which uses scons instead?

Bob the Hamster: Haha! D'oh! I can't believe I thought that was a comment! I guess it is because I am pretty religious about using " for my python strings instead of ' so I wasn't used to it. Anyway, the Windows nightly build batch file does this:

:TOP
CALL distrib-nightly-win.bat
ECHO Sleeping for 12 hours...
sleep 12h
GOTO TOP

I don't remember where I got the sleep utility. Pretty sure it is not a standard windows thing.