Would someone please simplify compiling?

[OmniNegro]

People have recently been asking about how to compile. I am too lazy to bother myself. But if anyone can make it easy for a player to follow your steps and have an up to date compile on Windows, I am sure they would be grateful.

The user who was asking was GenjiHikari, and they confirm they are on Windows 10. I have no idea what software to suggest they use, nor how exactly to do it. The game they want is Frogcomposband.

I did say that the best way to get the most up to date source is to go to the Github page, click Code in the upper right, and click Download Zip.

https://github.com/sulkasormi/frogcomposband

Thanks in advance.

[GenjiHikari]

Thank you for creating the thread.

So what I tried so far:

Installed MSYS2 (msys2-x86_64-20230526.exe)
Run MSYS terminal and entered the command
pacman -S automake libtool autoconf make
then went to a directory where the fcb's source is, using the command
cd C:/MyPrograms/Roguelike/frogcomposband-master
and tried the commands
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-win
got an error message what I dont have a compiler
installed the compiler
pacman -S gcc
then run the commands
./configure --enable-win
make
got many warnings and in the end an error message:

init2.c: In function ‘init_angband’:
init2.c:1531:42: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing up to 1023 bytes into a region of size 1005 [-Wformat-overflow=]
1531 | sprintf(why, "Cannot access the '%s' file!", buf);
| ^~ ~~~
init2.c:1531:9: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 27 and 1050 bytes into a destination of size 1024
1531 | sprintf(why, "Cannot access the '%s' file!", buf);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Failed to compile init2.c

[GenjiHikari]

Actual error reads as:

init2.c: In function ‘dir_create’:
init2.c:268:21: warning: array subscript has type ‘char’ [-Wchar-subscripts]
268 | if (isalpha(path[0]) && path[1] == ':') path += 2;
| ~~~~^~~
init2.c:29:32: error: too few arguments to function ‘mkdir’
29 | # define my_mkdir(path, perms) mkdir(path)
| ^~~~~
init2.c:294:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘my_mkdir’
294 | if (my_mkdir(buf, 0755) != 0) return FALSE;

[MITZE]

No guarantees it'll help, but I can get Frog to compile using the instructions given in readme.txt (it uses MinGW as a presumption, but personally I use Cygwin), making minimal code changes so the compiler will stop throwing errors.

Copy the contents of the .zip into the source directory, and then try compiling (note to compile for 32-bit, not 64-bit...I had to use a different compiler than the one I tried first because of this):
FrogSourceChanges.zip

[GenjiHikari]

Was able to compile the source using mingw from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/

Here are the list of packages I have had selected (not sure if you need all of them)

mingw-developer-toolkit
mingw32-base
mingw32-gcc-g++
mingw32-gcc-objc
msys-base

after installing I started a msys.bat file from the C:\MinGW\msys\1.0 directory and in the terminal entered commands:
cd c:/myprograms/rl/fcb
where "c:/myprograms/rl/fcb" is a directory with source files
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-win
make

if everything is all right then the executable file "frogcomposband.exe" will will appear in a "src" directory. Place it in the frogcomposband directory and it should work.

[emar]

People have recently been asking about how to compile. I am too lazy to bother myself. But if anyone can make it easy for a player to follow your steps and have an up to date compile on Windows, I am sure they would be grateful.

The user who was asking was GenjiHikari, and they confirm they are on Windows 10. I have no idea what software to suggest they use, nor how exactly to do it. The game they want is Frogcomposband.

I did say that the best way to get the most up to date source is to go to the Github page, click Code in the upper right, and click Download Zip.

https://github.com/sulkasormi/frogcomposband

Thanks in advance.

Are they looking for the latest dev version or the latest release? If they're looking for binaries for the latest release, it's automatically compiled into binaries on GitHub:

https://github.com/sulkasormi/frogcomposband/releases

[OmniNegro]

We play on angband.live but some folks want to play the Nightly locally. There is no release for Nightly. Nightly is available as source as I commented above. So compiling is required.

[Chryana]

compilation using MSYS2

Thanks for these instructions. I managed to compile frogcomposband using MSYS2 successfully. (The MinGW version referred to in GenjiHikari's comment is quite old, so I didn't want to make a compilation using that). I will write a list of instructions to do this if anyone is interested.

[OmniNegro]

Thanks for these instructions. I managed to compile frogcomposband using MSYS2 successfully. (The MinGW version referred to in GenjiHikari's comment is quite old, so I didn't want to make a compilation using that). I will write a list of instructions to do this if anyone is interested.

When you have some spare time, if you would please do this, I will keep it bookmarked for the people who ask for step by step instructions.

I play on Linux, so I cannot test your solution. But I do appreciate the help.

[OmniNegro]

Damnit. I tried to add to the reputation for Chryana and accidentally tagged "I disapprove." instead of "I approve." Would someone kindly offset my misclick by adding to their reputation? Thanks in advance.

*Edit* Thank you GenjiHikari for fixing my screwup of the day.

[Chryana]

frogcomposband compilation instructions with MSYS2

Short version
The compilation of frogcomposband can be done by installing the following two packages in MSYS2.

• make
• mingw-w64-i686-toolchain

Step by step instructions

# Download and run the MSYS2 installer from https://www.msys2.org/
# The installation will create several shortcuts in the start menu. Start the shell MSYS2 MINGW32, and then run this command.

$  pacman -S git make mingw-w64-i686-toolchain # this command installs the required packages.

# pacman will ask to make a selection of packages to install. I simply press Enter twice to make the default selection and start the download.

# these commands download the frogcomposband repo, compile the binary and move it in the correct directory to play the game.

$ git clone https://github.com/sulkasormi/frogcomposband.git
$ cd frogcomposband
$ ./configure --enable-win --with-no-install
$ make
$ mv src/frogcomposband.exe .
$ make clean # optional cleanup

# The game can now be found under the MSYS2 home directory, which is probably somewhere under C:\msys2\home\, and can be moved elsewhere.
# Running "git pull" from the frogcomposband directory at a later time will allow the game to be updated with minimal effort.

Let me know if you have any comments regarding these instructions. I didn't use autotools since the compilation works without it for me.