failed to compile main.c

[sousedstvi]

Hello!
I played Angband years ago when I worked with @d_m in Philly. Now I'm interested in getting back in the game, so to speak.

I got this far compiling, but don't know what to do with these errors.

christopher@fern:~/angband/angband-4.2.0$ make
Entering directory src.
cat: ../version: No such file or directory
cat: ../version: No such file or directory
cat: ../version: No such file or directory
cat: ../version: No such file or directory
Successfully generated dependencies.
cat: ../version: No such file or directory
main.c:53:1: warning: ISO C forbids empty initializer braces [-Wpedantic]
 {
 ^
main.c:52:28: error: zero or negative size array ‘modules’
 static const struct module modules[] =
                            ^~~~~~~
Failed to compile main.c!
../mk/buildsys.mk:242: recipe for target 'main.o' failed
make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1
../mk/buildsys.mk:110: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
mk/buildsys.mk:115: recipe for target 'subdirs' failed
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 2
mk/buildsys.mk:110: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

[Nick]

Have you first run ./autogen.sh and then ./configure (with relevant options)?

[sousedstvi]

Hi! Yes, I ran $sh autogen.sh and $./configure --prefix=$HOME

[sousedstvi]

output of ./configure is

Configuration:

  Install path:                           /home/christopher
  binary path:                            /home/christopher/games
  config path:                            /home/christopher/etc/angband/
  lib path:                               /home/christopher/share/angband/
  doc path:                               /home/christopher/share/doc/angband/
  var path:                               (not used)
  (with private save and score files in ~/.angband/Angband/)

-- Frontends --
- Curses                                  No; missing libraries
- X11                                     No; missing libraries
- SDL2                                    Disabled
- SDL                                     Disabled
- Windows                                 Disabled
- Test                                    No
- Stats                                   No

- SDL2 sound                              Disabled
- SDL sound                               Disabled

do I have to have those Curses and X11 libraries?

[Pete Mack]

You need at least ONE front-end. I am surprised curses isn't present on your machine. You will have to get (or configure) one of those choices.

[sousedstvi]

[solved]

Ok. Thanks that was it. I installed libx11-dev and dependencies.

[fph]

You need at least ONE front-end. I am surprised curses isn't present on your machine. You will have to get (or configure) one of those choices.

Probably what is missing is not the library, but the -dev package (include files).