GP2X Sdl Emulator Porting

[skeezix]

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

 

[chris_r]

Well of course the emulators need nice menus and everything but cheap hacks will keep people occupied until a prettier version is released

 

[icurafu]

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.

 

[skeezix]

./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

 

[icurafu]

./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

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"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