Getting Unangband/Angband from SVN and Compiling on Windows

[MKula]

Checked and double checked, and unfortunately no luck. Oh well. Thank you very much for your help, anyway. It's very much appreciated. I'll keep trying and hopefully one of these days I'll get it work.

EDIT: It is SO OBVIOUS that I'm not a coder; I finally got it to work. The moral of the story? I needed to RE-build the project (not just build) whenever I made a change.
*sigh...*
Again, thanks for your help takkaria. You are, for lack of a more profound and relevant term, "da man".

[takkaria]

I'm a little confused about UnAngband's subversion repository. Under svnroot/repos/unangband/trunk/unangband, there appears to be a second unangband directory with a second copy of the source. Which one should I check out these days?

[Bandobras]

unangband/unangband/ for 0.6.2, unangband for 0.6.3 (and you get 0.6.2 too in the bargain, actually)

[andrewdoull]

unangband/unangband/ for 0.6.2, unangband for 0.6.3 (and you get 0.6.2 too in the bargain, actually)

This is due to my complete naivety at how to set up an svn branch... and following someone elses example.

Andrew

[ekolis]

Hey, thought it might be appropriate to mention here that the Vanilla SVN and Trac appear to be down (have been for a few days actually) and no new nightlies have appeared in a few days... something wrong? (Actually at first the whole rephial domain was down but at least most of it's back now...)

[takkaria]

Hey, thought it might be appropriate to mention here that the Vanilla SVN and Trac appear to be down (have been for a few days actually) and no new nightlies have appeared in a few days... something wrong? (Actually at first the whole rephial domain was down but at least most of it's back now...)

Yeah, it'll come back when it comes back... I don't host the dev server so I can't fix it. The nightlies rely on the dev server being there, so that's why they fail too.

[EdRaSm]

Managed to compile and run using Eclipse on XP

I thought I would post my success at getting this to work today. It was quite a bit of trouble, but none of it appears to have been Angband's fault.

1. Installed Eclipse for C/C++
2. Installed MinGW, including the G++, Objective C, and makefile options.
3. Edit \minGW\include\stdlib.h: Change the word 'inline' to the word 'static' on line 317.

inline double __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW strtod (const char* __restrict__ __nptr, char** __restrict__ __endptr)

should become:

static double __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW strtod (const char* __restrict__ __nptr, char** __restrict__ __endptr)

I am a VB guy, so I don't understand this change whatsoever. It could be really a bad thing, but it does let angband run.

4. Get the source code. In Eclipse, do File->New->Other->check out files from SVN. Use http://angband.rogueforge.net/svn/trunk. When it asks which folder, choose the topmost (labeled trunk). Leave everything as the default on the next screen and click Finish. On the 'select a wizard' screen, choose 'C Project'. On the 'C Project' screen, choose Makefile Project->Empty Project, give your project a name (Angband), and choose MinGW GCC on the right pane.

5. After everything is downloaded, expand the source tree to expose the src folder. Right click it and do Make Targets->Build. Make a new build called default, target can be 'all', and set the build command to 'make -f makefile.win MINGW=yes' (without the quotes).

6. Copy \mingw\bin\mingw32-make.exe to \mingw\bin\make.exe.

7. Put \mingw\bin on your path. There is probably a better way, but it seemed to me that I had to reboot to get this to take. I edited the path by right clicking my computer and click set environment variables on the advanced tab.

8. 6 and 7 could have been done earlier, I just forgot to put them there

9. Right click on the src folder in Eclipse, choose Make Targets, choose default and click Build.

10. The only part that didn't work for me was the automatic copying of angband.exe up a level. I did that by hand for now.

[meeshoo]

I can't seem to pass this error:

D:\Personal\Angband\src>mingw32-make -f Makefile.win MINGW=yes
gcc -DWINDOWS -Wall -W -std=iso9899:199409 -pedantic -O2 -I. -c -o attack.o atta
ck.c
In file included from h-basic.h:127,
                 from angband.h:17,
                 from attack.c:18:
D:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include/stdlib.h:317: error: s
yntax error before "double"
In file included from angband.h:35,
                 from attack.c:18:
defines.h:1398: warning: comma at end of enumerator list
mingw32-make: *** [attack.o] Error 1

Any ideas on it? I skiped the java and got the svn down using tortoise and then installed mingw/msys and tried to build both from msys command promt and cmd shell and the result is the same.

I am trying to build under Vista (I'm running all command prompts with administrator rights).

[Nick]

Any ideas on it?

This seems to be a bug in mingw (these are not unknown )- see this page, which I think has a workaround.

[meeshoo]

Well, I managed to build it in the end but not using MinGW. I tried all the fixes on the page Nicks suggested but it didn't work, so I just dropped MinGW and installed CygWin and everything worked without any problems.

First I tried the method described on the first page with Eclipse, and it refused to start, now I know why because I tried same thing but with Cygwin. The problem was that when you create the new make target, you can name your target default, but you have to leave the "make target" box empty, or else it adds that target to the make command string, and says some error about "no rule to make target 'default'".

[pav]

The default target is 'all' if you want to specify it. Or leave the box empty, yeah.

[zaimoni]

I can't seem to pass this error:

D:\Personal\Angband\src>mingw32-make -f Makefile.win MINGW=yes
gcc -DWINDOWS -Wall -W -std=iso9899:199409 -pedantic -O2 -I. -c -o attack.o atta
ck.c
In file included from h-basic.h:127,
                 from angband.h:17,
                 from attack.c:18:
D:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include/stdlib.h:317: error: s
yntax error before "double"
In file included from angband.h:35,
                 from attack.c:18:
defines.h:1398: warning: comma at end of enumerator list
mingw32-make: *** [attack.o] Error 1

Any ideas on it? I skiped the java and got the svn down using tortoise and then installed mingw/msys and tried to build both from msys command promt and cmd shell and the result is the same.

I am trying to build under Vista (I'm running all command prompts with administrator rights).

MingW's recent releases of stdlib.h is broken under strict C94. I bypass this by patching Makefile.win :

C:\CPP_App\angband.svn\src>svn diff Makefile.win
Index: Makefile.win
===================================================================
--- Makefile.win        (revision 1105)
+++ Makefile.win        (working copy)
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@

 CC = $(CROSS)gcc
 WRES = $(CROSS)windres
-CFLAGS += -Wall -W -std=iso9899:199409 -pedantic -O2 -I.
+CFLAGS += -Wall -W -pedantic -O2 -I.
+#CFLAGS += -Wall -W -std=iso9899:199409 -pedantic -O2 -I.
 LIBS += -s

 ifdef BUILD_ID

[meeshoo]

It works, thanks a lot, this really helps. Now I can get rid of cygwin.

EDIT: BTW, is anyone around who tried to build angband using the Code::Blocks IDE + MinGW?

[meeshoo]

Never mind, I managed to build it myself using Code::Blocks. If anyone is interested in how it's done, please let me know and I'll post a tutorial about it. The main idea is that even Code::Blocks will allow you to use a custom make file, you shouldn't use a custom make file but configure your own build targets for each platform (which files go in, which libraries go in and so on). Even if it sounds hard, it is not, as you can use the platform's specific makefile to determine which flags you should pass to the compiler and linker. Also you have to set the search folders properly for includes and resources.

[Old Coach]

meeshoo
you used eclipse to build your program and cygwin to compile as the instructions gave at the beginning of the thread?
What command did you run in place of the "mingw32-make -f makefile.cyg"

I just want to compile angband from the source code as a matter of principal.

-Fred