GP2X Sdl Emulator Porting


The real endeaver is to make the emus friendly; the gp2x (linux/sdl) will be a cakewalk to port to, but straight ports are no fun; what made the gp32 special of course was that the emus required care.. but this doens't mean that with the gp2x being easier, it needs any less care. ie: Still needs nice menus :)

jeff
 
Well of course the emulators need nice menus and everything but cheap hacks will keep people occupied until a prettier version is released
 
How depressing. I tried to get Stella done today. And I got my method together. (It's actually a very easy port) Then I try to compile and it all goes to hell. the make files are just crazy. they require ./configure to be executed first, which looks like a linux prog. So I load up faithful SuSE with no luck. Just an unhelpfull error message.

I'm bored of playing with compilers and bad make files, so I'll be trying to finsih Ur-Quan instead.

BTW, Stella, it's very easy. I'd be happy for any dev to do this. It might be another few weeks before I attempt to compile it manually, and it should only be a couple of hours for someone who knows what he/she is doing. ^___^

EDIT: Found MSYS (and it works)... maybe I'll do Stella tomorrow instead. :)
 
./configure is a very standard unix thing to do, and should work in cygwin etc as well; "configure" is a script (created with autoconf tools) that generates Makefiles for you .. it seeks your system to look where things are, and what options may be needed, in a build. For a port, I usually run the configure script on my unix box, and then do the port based on the generated Makefile.

ie: on unix, Stella should compile ot of box; the standard for most unix apps is:

./configure
make
make install

jeff
 
./configure is a very standard unix thing to do, and should work in cygwin etc as well; "configure" is a script (created with autoconf tools) that generates Makefiles for you .. it seeks your system to look where things are, and what options may be needed, in a build. For a port, I usually run the configure script on my unix box, and then do the port based on the generated Makefile.

ie: on unix, Stella should compile ot of box; the standard for most unix apps is:

./configure
make
make install

jeff

"make install" or whatever is in the make file usally works for me, but with SDL, I'm sure I'll come accross the "configure" script more oftenly.

Thanks Jeff
 
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