Compiling Nonpareil

[Marcus von Cube, Germany]

Hi Eric,

I've just downloaded Nonpareil and want to compile it under Ubuntu on my Eee PC, but I get a missing library error:

marcus@eeepc:/media/sdcard/2/projekte/nonpareil-0.78$ scons

scons: Reading SConscript files ...

Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc'

to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No package 'gtk+-2.0' found

...

All libs seem to be missing. I can see the respective .so files in /usr/lib, but the requested .pc files aren't there. Can you direct me a little?

Marcus

[Eric Smith]

If you were running Fedora, I'd say that you probably need the various "-devel" packages. Perhaps Ubuntu also has development packages?

[Marcus von Cube, Germany]

OK, after installing a bunch of -dev packages, flex and bison, I still get errors:

gcc -o build/posix/csim.o -c -Wall -g -pthread -D_GNU_SOURCE=1

 -D_REENTRANT "-D{'DEFAULT_PATH': '/usr/local/lib/nonpareil'}"

 -Ibuild/posix -Isrc -Ibuild/common -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0

 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0

 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 

 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include

 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12

 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/libxml2

 -I/usr/include/SDL src/csim.c

<command-line>: error: macro names must be identifiers

scons: *** [build/posix/csim.o] Error 1

scons: building terminated because of errors.

Looks like GCC doesn't like the following: -D{'DEFAULT_PATH': '/usr/local/lib/nonpareil'}

:(

Marcus

[Marcus von Cube, Germany]

No one there to help me? Can I patch the build scripts myself?

[Eric Smith]

Looks like you're using a newer version of SCons than was supported by that release of Nonpareil.

You can try changing src/SConscript:

-    csim_env.Append (CPPDEFINES = {'SHAPE_DEFAULT': "false"})

+    csim_env.Append (CPPDEFINES = [('SHAPE_DEFAULT', "false")])

Probably needs other changes throughout the file.

Or use the scons-local that's supplied.

[Marcus von Cube, Germany]

scon-local did the trick.

On my 800x480 pixel eeePC display, the 41.kml does not fit the screen. Are there alternatives to try?

Edited: 25 June 2008, 10:25 a.m.

[Egan Ford]

Get http://sense.net/zc/nonpareil/41c.tgz and extract into your nonpareil directory (e.g. /usr/local/lib/nonpareil), then type nonpareil 41cxs. I created a short 35 as well: http://sense.net/zc/nonpareil/35.tgz. Both have been optimized for 640x480 screens. 800x480 is no problem.

Screen shots here: http://sense.net/zc/nonpareil/

You may also want to checkout the patches from here: http://sense.net/zc/x48/. Just get the x48 source and patch with http://sense.net/zc/x48/x48_x11.c.patch. Then you'll have a GX and SX as well. Use Linux C-Kermit to transfer code to/from the emulator. NOTE: I have an x86 x48 binary if you do not want to bother with patching and compiling. Of course you can just use wine and run emu48 if you like.

Edited: 25 June 2008, 12:02 p.m.

[Marcus von Cube, Germany]

Thanks Egan!

Seems to work fine. Now it's time to play. It's a pity that the eeePC does not come with a touch screen. :(

Edited: 26 June 2008, 4:46 a.m.

[Winfried Maschke]

The missing Software should be inside libgtk2.0-dev. Just do a apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev.