[PosChengband 3.3.4] Compile on Ubuntu

[Arendil]

I've tried to compile latest version on Ubuntu 12.04, and got a souple of errors. 'autogen.sh' returned 'aclocal failed', make - obviously - can't find '/mk/buildsys.mk', and, after slight edit in makefile, '/mk/buildsys.mk.in' has no rule for '.deps'.

So, before I dive blindly in the code searching for solution, can someone, who managed to compile that version on Unix, help?

Thanks,
Cheers,

Peter

[AnonymousHero]

You're probably missing a package called "build-essential", or one of the automake* ones.

[Arendil]

You're probably missing a package called "build-essential", or one of the automake* ones.

Erm, no. Latest version already installed. Any other ideas? Anyone?

[Nick]

It was me that hacked the V build system into PosCheng - and I don't really claim to be an expert. I think the aclocal failed message is probably out of the autogen.sh script itself. My top two guesses would be

• You don't have aclocal installed or
• It's a permissions issue - either for running aclocal, or writing files to the top level directory

[riftor_77]

I am also trying to compile a Windows copy of PosChengband 3.3.4 using Cygwin. I too am hitting the "/mk/buildsys.mk: No such file or directory" error, but unlike Arendil, my change to the Makefile didn't work. I've never used Make before today, and I'm a very novice coder. How do I make Make work?

Thanks.

[debo]

It was me that hacked the V build system into PosCheng - and I don't really claim to be an expert. I think the aclocal failed message is probably out of the autogen.sh script itself. My top two guesses would be

• You don't have aclocal installed or
• It's a permissions issue - either for running aclocal, or writing files to the top level directory

Why on earth is it writing to /mk instead of ./mk?

I thought that --prefix might help here but you can't do that until configure, can you?

As an aside, I know a lot of these build conventions are trying to do things the 'proper unix way', but given that most people who build these things are newbies (myself included), writing stuff to places that your local user probably can't touch with sudo seems cruel

[Nick]

Why on earth is it writing to /mk instead of ./mk?

OK, I misread the OP - obviously it should be writing to ./mk, and it does for me. Maybe this is the problem.

Arendil, are you running ./autogen.sh in the PosChengband directory? Because that ought to work.

[Arendil]

• You don't have aclocal installed or

Ok, it seems I'm stupid, well kinda...

I would've sworn I have automake installed, but didn't. After installing default version, compilation went without errors. Thanks Nick.

riftor_77,

That's not exactly answer to your problem, but the trivial way to compile PosChengband under Windows is to use Visual Studio 2010 Express (i.e. free) version. Open solution file, build, kaboom, done.

[JohnCW9]

Ok, it seems I'm stupid, well kinda...

I would've sworn I have automake installed, but didn't. After installing default version, compilation went without errors. Thanks Nick.

riftor_77,

That's not exactly answer to your problem, but the trivial way to compile PosChengband under Windows is to use Visual Studio 2010 Express (i.e. free) version. Open solution file, build, kaboom, done.

That version at least here is no longer available. I was forced in 2013