problems compiling xmame -- vanilla

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Hello all,

I am attemtping a compile of the vanilla xmame 0.92 source. I have a
Redhat Fedora Core 3 box. Unfortunately, I did a binary install of
redhat without much source. I don't have the redhat disks anymore so I
can't load source off them.

My compile has made it a long way, but I am hacking various things at
this point and beginning to feel like I am reaching beyond my skill
level. A little advice from some gurus would be great.

1) At first the compile couldn't find Xlib.h. So I went and got
XFree86 source rpm off the net and installed it. I installed
XFree86-4.3.0-55.src.rpm, untarred the source, adjusted the include
directive in the make file and attempted a build. This time it got
further, but then I got a bunch of syntax errors. It turns out that
some paths assumed in the #includes were not there. I fixed them up
with sym links inside the expanded XFree source tree and got it to
compile. Is this a typical experience? Or am I doing something the
hard way with regards to snagging source from the net? After installing
the source rpm I kind of expected the source to be expanded somewhere.
It wasn't. It was just sitting in a gzipped tar ball out in
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. So I manually untarred to a working dir along
side of my xmame source. Is this typical? I feel like I am missing
some step in the source file installation process.

2) When I installed the XFree86 source rpm it came with a slew of .patch
files. Uh, was I supposed to use these somehow? I didn't. I saw the
full source tar ball sitting there and went for that. My main question
here is: are those patch files supposed to be applied to that source in
the tar ball or is the bundled source already patch-applied?

3) Well, with the compile complete it is on to linking problems. I
found that some of my libs were not being picked up because they were
not present in /usr/lib with the proper names, it seems. For example, I
had and error on -lexpat. I found this in /usr/lib

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 May 2 00:10 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 ->
libexpat.so.0.5.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127592 Jun 16 2004 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0

So I created an additional sym link

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 16 02:00 /usr/lib/libexpat.so ->
libexpat.so.0

and the problem went away. Then on to the next library with a similar
problem.

Is this a common problem? Why are my .so libraries getting installed
without all of the necessary name links?

Thanks all,
John

 

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On Sun, 15 May 2005 18:13:52 +0000, John Leveille wrote:

> I am attemtping a compile of the vanilla xmame 0.92 source. I have a
> Redhat Fedora Core 3 box. Unfortunately, I did a binary install of
> redhat without much source. I don't have the redhat disks anymore so I
> can't load source off them.

I get the impression that you didn't install any development tools and
libraries when you set up your Fedora Core 3 machine.

It is a common mistake made by people who are new to Linux and Unix. "I'm
not planning to write any software, so I don't need to install the
software development tools." Pretty much everyone needs to install the
software development tools -- many of the programs that you will want to
run come as source code and even if you never want to look at or modify a
line of source code yourself you still need the development tools to
compile the program into something that you can run.

For example, you talk about Xlib.h being missing. If you install
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.FC3.13 then it will be present. Notice the -devel-
portion of that rpm name.

A further example: libexpat.so.0 and libexpat.so.0.5.0 come in
expat-1.95.7-4 and expat-devel-1.95.7-4.

And so on.

These will all be automatically installed when you install the development
tools and libraries that come with Fedora Core 3.

> So I went and got XFree86 source rpm off the net and installed it. I
> installed XFree86-4.3.0-55.src.rpm, untarred the source, adjusted the
> include directive in the make file and attempted a build.

This is completely unnecessary for what you are trying to accomplish, and
probably won't work anyway.

> I don't have the redhat disks anymore so I can't load source off them.

Get them. You don't need the source rpms, you need the development tools
and libraries.

 

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innocent_lamb wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2005 18:13:52 +0000, John Leveille wrote:
>
>
> I get the impression that you didn't install any development tools and
> libraries when you set up your Fedora Core 3 machine.
>
True.

>
> These will all be automatically installed when you install the development
> tools and libraries that come with Fedora Core 3.
>
So you are expecting the source files to be expanded somewhere on the
file system and not balled up, right? I mean, I assume that is what you
are saying.

>
>>So I went and got XFree86 source rpm off the net and installed it. I
>>installed XFree86-4.3.0-55.src.rpm, untarred the source, adjusted the
>>include directive in the make file and attempted a build.
>
>
> This is completely unnecessary for what you are trying to accomplish, and
> probably won't work anyway.

Ah, but it did. I built and lined xmame successfully after linking
around a bunch in /usr/lib. Woo hoo! And I built it again with
fullscreen support for DGA (again, more linking around in /usr/lib ...
man, how did I get so many libraries in there with no .so linkages?!?)

>
>
>>I don't have the redhat disks anymore so I can't load source off them.
>
>
> Get them. You don't need the source rpms, you need the development tools
> and libraries.
Roger, bittorrent is working on it now.

Thanks!