Building Sangband 101129 SDL on Linux

[Mikko Lehtinen]

Hello,

I'm trying to build the SDL version of the newest Sangband on Debian Squeeze, but I'm getting errors.

I'm a newbie on building, but I did manage to build these successfully on the same machine:
- SDL version of Leon's Sangband 1.0.
- Curses version of the newest Sangband (101129)

These are the errors I get:

main-sdl.c:377:71: error: macro "FREE" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
main-sdl.c: In function \u2018stretch_recalculate_array_sdl\u2019:
main-sdl.c:377: error: \u2018FREE\u2019 undeclared (first use in this function)
main-sdl.c:377: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
main-sdl.c:377: error: for each function it appears in.)
main-sdl.c:378:71: error: macro "FREE" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
main-sdl.c:657:23: error: macro "FREE" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
main-sdl.c: In function \u2018remove_font_sdl\u2019:
main-sdl.c:657: error: \u2018FREE\u2019 undeclared (first use in this function)
main-sdl.c:771:17: error: macro "FREE" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
main-sdl.c: In function \u2018create_glyph_surface\u2019:
main-sdl.c:771: error: \u2018FREE\u2019 undeclared (first use in this function)
main-sdl.c:3360:76: error: macro "FREE" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
main-sdl.c: In function \u2018hook_quit\u2019:
main-sdl.c:3360: error: \u2018FREE\u2019 undeclared (first use in this function)
main-sdl.c:3361:76: error: macro "FREE" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
main-sdl.c:3364:21: error: macro "FREE" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
make: *** [main-sdl.o] Error 1

Can someone help?

Mikko

[camlost]

I haven't built the SDL version, so I haven't fixed some of the bugs in it.

The 'FREE' macros now takes a second parameter of the datatype.

http://code.google.com/p/skills-angband/issues/detail?id=41

[takkaria]

I haven't built the SDL version, so I haven't fixed some of the bugs in it.

The 'FREE' macros now takes a second parameter of the datatype.

http://code.google.com/p/skills-angb...s/detail?id=41

Why? That information isn't used anywhere.

[camlost]

Why? That information isn't used anywhere.

I think I got confused when I was implementing the character history. The code I got from someone/somewhere used a different set of macros. I guess I figured that the data type was important.

I've reverted the changes to the macros in r132. Let me know if that fixes your problem, Mikko.

[Mikko Lehtinen]

It's working now. Thanks a lot!

[Mikko Lehtinen]

Here's a little guide on how to build the latest development version of SDL-Sangband on Debian. It's remarkably easy. Tested on Debian Squeeze, but this might well work on other Debian versions and Ubuntu.

1. Install these packages using your package manager: gcc, libsdl1.2-dev, libsdl-mixer1.2-dev, libsdl-ttf2.0-dev, subversion. (You need libsdl-mixer1.2-dev only if you want sound. You need subversion only if you want to grab the development version.)

2. Grab the latest source by writing this in terminal:
"svn checkout http://skills-angband.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ skills-angband-read-only"
This command will magically create a new directory "skills-angband-read-only".

3. Go to the directory "skills-angband-read-only/src", and write this in terminal:
"make -fMakefile.sdl install"

4. It's done! An executable appears in the main Sangband directory. At least in Gnome I can start the game just by clicking the icon.

[Bostock]

Thank you Mikko!

Thank you very kindly for that guide, Mikko - I used it with success despite being only an advanced layman in Linux.

Now if only I could figure out how to get my built Sangband to run from just a double-click in Nautilus, instead of sudo ./sangband...