> Peter Naulls wrote on 7th Nov >> alan buckley wrote: >>> Peter Naulls wrote on 5th Nov 2009ish >> > Well, last time I tried (a few months ago) all the games in the > autobuilder compiled. Some stuff has mad more recent and > specific attention, but many things need packaging, and > most things could do with a test. Right now, I'm looking > at lincity, which has some windowing issues. > If there's any specific package you have concerns about, > then we'll take a closer look, and try to work with whoever. > In some cases, I expect the original RO porter is simply not > interested (e.g OpenTTD), so as long as we make this clear, > there shouldn't be a problem. As far as I can see the following games aren't packaged: digger glhack jumpnbump noiz2sa reminiscence xconq
I'll try to build them all and see where I get to. Have I missed anything? I'm pretty sure I was stopped from building glhack as ncurses(?) wouldn't cross compile on Cygwin. >> I'm now entirely set up for GCC4 only, so I assume I'd need >> to have the latest UnixLibrary put in a package as well. Is >> this the case or will the version used with GCC3 work with >> GCC4 compiled programs as well? Are we at a position where >> there is a stable UnixLib for GCC4 that can be used to >> replace the one on the current riscpkg site for use with GCC3? > I talked to John about this yesterday; the last 4.1 release > was ok, but still marked beta and was some time ago, but > is okish. I updated 'make' which had a bad patch, and we still > need some examples for shared libraries for the documentation. > However, I don't think this should prevent anything you mention. > There may yet be shared library issues (e.g. Firefox), but > I haven't been able to check that, and I don't think there > are any known technical issues that stop a release. It would be nice to have a full official release, but what stops the distribution is just the SharedUnixLibrary as it may stop the programs from running (I guess). >> I wanted to get the latest version of Wesnoth to work, but >> unfortunately for me they've started using the cairo library >> which there isn't a RISC OS port for. Peter I don't know >> if you've managed to get anywhere with cairo yet, but if >> you've got as far as getting a basic RISC OS framework to >> compile I'd like to have a look and see if I could contribute. > No, only what I hacked up quite some time ago: > http://www.riscos.info/downloads/wip/cairo/ Thanks for the URL, I'll have a look at that when I get some time. >> For a while I've been trying to write a alternative front end >> to RiscPkg, but unfortunately I keep ending up with crashes >> which may or may not be from GCC4's exception handling. >> At the moment I'm going through another period of giving up >> on it, but if anyone would like to have a look at where I've >> got to so far, let me know and I'll try to put it up on my >> drobe webspace. If it looks like it's worth pursuing to >> others I may get my enthusiasm for it back. > You don't want to just check it into the RiscPkg svn? Either > mainline as work in progress, or into its own branch? My eventual intention was to put this and the C++ toolbox library I used there, but I don't like the idea of putting something else out there that may just end up just taking up someones disc space. I'll see if I can get a download of the current wip version up on the web somewhere and see if I can get some feedback on if it's worth pursuing. Regards, Alan _________________________________________________________________ Add your Gmail and Yahoo! Mail email accounts into Hotmail - it's easy http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394592/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ GCCSDK mailing list [email protected] Bugzilla: http://www.riscos.info/bugzilla/index.cgi List Info: http://www.riscos.info/mailman/listinfo/gcc Main Page: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/GCCSDK
