Compiling on lubuntu

[invisibletroll]

That's quite strange; none of these facts should have an impact. If `configure` finds all the required headers and confirms in the final messages that the SDL2 support is going to be included in the build, then it means it should be supported, no matter what distro or architecture you are using. That's precisely the job of a configure script, to confirm that all the required libraries and dependencies are there.

Be sure that you have rebuilt everything after the last configuration change: `./configure --with-your-favorite-options` followed by `make clean` and `make` just to be 200% sure you rebuild everything from scratch.

Don't feed the troll.

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So, I want to backup my character save file before doing this. I have run configure and confirmed that my character opens. Where is this character file saved? Configure states that it is in ~/.angband/Angband/ but it's not there.

What is in that folder, incidentally, is my .prf file for my character and window.prf. The game remembers the keyboard shortcuts I created, and my subwindow setup, but not the location of the subwindows. And I have remembered to save the subwindow setup to my character's .prf file, and also to load the .prf file in the = menu, but it doesn't work. This is one of my main reasons for wanting to use SDL2.

Anyway, where is my character file?

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Okay, found my savefile. Took me a while. That's what I get for naming my character Lubuntu!

The game saves in a subdirectory within the original unzip directory. This is strange at first thought, but it explains why my saves have persisted through all these re-configures and re-makes.

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Success!

Success in getting the SDL2 version to run! Seems like the answer was

make clean
make
sudo make install

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The saga continues

The mouse clicks aren't registering in any of the menus. They are registering in the main window of the game, bringing up options and moving the player character, but not the menus.

I should be able to set up the subwindows by editing sdl2init.txt. Now to find a specification for it...

[fph]

Frankly I never touched that file because I can configure everything with my mouse. I don't have many ideas to solve the mouse-not-working issue, sorry.

[invisibletroll]

The saga continues

The mouse clicks aren't registering in any of the menus. They are registering in the main window of the game, bringing up options and moving the player character, but not the menus.

I should be able to set up the subwindows by editing sdl2init.txt. Now to find a specification for it...

The saga continues? You are a troublemaker.

[invisibletroll]

Frankly I never touched that file because I can configure everything with my mouse. I don't have many ideas to solve the mouse-not-working issue, sorry.

Then we are shit out of luck. LOL GTFO!

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I experimented with sdl2init.txt, got it to display ascii fine, which is what I play with anyway.

[fph]

Lubuntu apparently uses Wayland, a different version of the Linux graphics stack: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comme...d_via_mir_for/ . This may be the reason why the support doesn't work too well; it is a much less tested combination.

[invisibletroll]

Lubuntu apparently uses Wayland, a different version of the Linux graphics stack: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comme...d_via_mir_for/ . This may be the reason why the support doesn't work too well; it is a much less tested combination.

Compiles and runs on Lubuntu 20.04.

sudo apt install libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev

make clean
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-sdl --with-no-install
make

src/angband -msdl

[invisibletroll]

The saga continues

The mouse clicks aren't registering in any of the menus. They are registering in the main window of the game, bringing up options and moving the player character, but not the menus.

I should be able to set up the subwindows by editing sdl2init.txt. Now to find a specification for it...

Better to use SDL1. There's no benefit of using SDL2.

[invisibletroll]

Just another remark. If the SDL2 interface should work (with mouse support), it hasn't been tested on Ubuntu at all? But then raises another question. On what system it has been tested? And actually does the mouse work on any system? Nick should confirm this.

[Nick]

Just another remark. If the SDL2 interface should work (with mouse support), it hasn't been tested on Ubuntu at all? But then raises another question. On what system it has been tested? And actually does the mouse work on any system? Nick should confirm this.

Mouse certainly works on any system I've tested on.

SDL2 interface has an interesting history; it was written by someone who then left the community after having a fight with a couple of people. Some work has been put into it since, but not by me. Reports indicate it's mostly functional, but with some quirks.

[fph]

Just another remark. If the SDL2 interface should work (with mouse support), it hasn't been tested on Ubuntu at all? But then raises another question. On what system it has been tested? And actually does the mouse work on any system? Nick should confirm this.

I can confirm that the mouse support works on vanilla Ubuntu; I have been using it in many version combinations. However, Lubuntu is a different beast than most linuxes, because it uses Wayland instead of X as its graphics stack.