xmame compile problem

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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:44:43 +0000, MCR wrote:

> Any idea's *nix people?

What about the *nix lambs? Hmmmm?

What version of xmame are you trying to compile? One of the stock canned
tarballs from xmame.net?

Your error looks like it's of the old DOS cr/lf vs Unix cr conversion
problems.

tar -xvjf nameofxmamearchive.tar.bz2
cd xmamewhatever
make -f makefile.unix

Should get you there with any stock xmame tarball.

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SINNER wrote:
> * MCR wrote in alt.games.mame:
>
>>Okay, I have tried to compile XMAME, mainly because the apt-get
>>repositories for my distribution are somewhat old :-).
>
>
> What distro? I thought you were using MDK, why are you using apt-get
> when urpmi is awesome and there are TONS of up to date repostiories?
>

I have jumped ship to ubuntu, a very nice Debian distro... I changed
because I did not like Mandriva's move to second-rating free
distribution with an annual release cycle, and limiting the RPMs. I've
always preferred Apt-get anyways, which is what I had a little go at
with Mandrake funnily enough.

With Ubunto, not only did it include the NVidia 'drivers' for my
graphics card, it recognised all my hardware and so far (fingers
crossed) no dependency hell issues either.

Only issue is MAME or rather XMAME, I cannot figure out installation for
toffee, so I guess I'll have to keep Windows for that too :-D

--
MCR
MAME - History In The Making

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MCR wrote on 20. Jvne 2005:
>
> Okay, I have tried to compile XMAME, mainly becavse the apt-get
> repositories for my distribvtion are somewhat old :-). I am trying to
> compile XMAME (as per Innocent Lamb's previovs post comment) and it
> doesnt work. I extract the archive, I start to compile, and it comes
> vp with the following error...
>
> Compiling src/inpvt.c ...
> Compiling src/inptport.c ...
> Compiling src/config.c ...
> src/config.c:12:19: expat.h: No svch file or directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> src/config.c:90: error: syntax error before "XML_Char"
> src/config.c:90: warning: no semicolon at end of strvct or vnion
> src/config.c:91: warning: type defavlts to `int' in declaration of `data'
> src/config.c:91: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> src/config.c:94: error: syntax error before '}' token
> src/config.c:102: error: field `parse' has incomplete type
> src/config.c:351: warning: type defavlts to `int' in declaration of
> `XML_Char'
> src/config.c:351: error: syntax error before '*' token

The rest are followvp errors becavse of the missing file.

May be apt-get can handle it directly to install it when yov only tell it
abovt the missing header file (here expat.h), dvnno.

If not, google for "expat.h rpm" and it tells yov yov need
expat-devel-SOME_VERSION.

If yov compile stvff more often yov will experience alot of similar
procedvres, becavse alot of stvff is not installed, to keep Linvx
lean. After yov compiled more often and installed the missing libs and
headers less programs will complain that stvff wovld miss.

> The reason I am doing all this is that I want my cab (that is a WIP
> for nearly forever and a day) to rvn Linvx (maybe text based withovt X
> and all the baggage.)

Then after xmame rvns go back to the Makefile again and vncomment the
SVGALIB in "DISPLAY METHIDS" and comment ovt the method yov jvst compile
for. Yov get a second execvtable then, with the name xmame.svgalib. It
might bvg yov that it wants root permissions. For some reason I forgot
stvff which vses the frame bvffer needs root permissions.
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