Compiling Zelda Classic instructions?

[lucas92]

Hi, it's really great news the sources from Zelda Classic are now open-source. I tried to compile with the given VC2008 solution but it failed. I tried to compile with the makefile, but it seems the libraries given with the git repository are in a 32 bits format and is invalid with the distribution of mingw I currently have. What is the setup you use to build the sources? Thanks.

[Tamamo]

The VS2008 builds are not up to date. @Gleeok takes care of that naturally. Saffith is the one who updates the makefile which is set up for 32 bit format by default. Either wait for Gleeok or download a 32 bit distribution of mingw.

[Saffith]

I'm not sure it's even possible to compile some of the libraries as 64-bit. Try using the -m32 switch with MinGW.

[Tamamo]

How do we go about compiling using an MSYS environment. I have it set up correctly but whenever I try to compile use the make command it returns an error saying it cannot locate the allegro libraries. Which I know exist. Also how do I go about linking the Boost libraries?

[Saffith]

Did you install Allegro after building it? If it's installed properly, you should be able to run allegro-config to get the necessary arguments. If the ALLEG_LIB setting in the makefile doesn't work for some reason, you should be able to change it to
ALLEG_LIB = `allegro-config --libs --shared`

The Boost libraries used are header-only; they don't need any linking.

[Tamamo]

@Saffith
Know what's going on here by chance?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...for-mingw-msys

[Saffith]

Try running
export UNIX_TOOLS=1
first.

Also, if you get an operand type mismatch error on fnstsw (I thought we had fixed that, but I'm still seeing it), in src/i386/icpus.s, change line 70 to
fnstsw %ax

[Tamamo]

@Saffith
Another roadblock. -__-
Let me guess I was suppose to install dx7. I Just copied it like it told me to in the instructions.

C:\msys\allegro>Compiling Allegro for MinGW32, optimised. Please wait...
gcc -s  -Wl,--subsystem,windows -o tests/win/dibgrab.exe obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o lib/mingw32/liballeg.a -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lole32 -ldinput -lddraw -ldxguid -lwinmm -ldsound
obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o:dibgrab.c:(.text+0x135): undefined reference to `save_bitmap'
obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o:dibgrab.c:(.text+0x1cc): undefined reference to `_imp__default_palette'
obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o:dibgrab.c:(.text+0x1dc): undefined reference to `set_palette_to_hdc'
obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o:dibgrab.c:(.text+0x277): undefined reference to `blit_from_hdc'
obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o:dibgrab.c:(.text+0x2f0): undefined reference to `stretch_blit_to_hdc'
obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o:dibgrab.c:(.text+0x4c3): undefined reference to `_install_allegro_version_check'
obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o:dibgrab.c:(.text+0x4d0): undefined reference to `set_gdi_color_format'
obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o:dibgrab.c:(.text+0x4ec): undefined reference to `create_bitmap_ex'
obj/mingw32/alleg/dibgrab.o:dibgrab.c:(.text+0x562): undefined reference to `destroy_bitmap'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [tests/win/dibgrab.exe] Error 1

[Saffith]

If you didn't install DX7, yeah, you probably should. I don't think that's the problem here, though. dibgrab is a test, not part of Allegro itself. It doesn't really matter if you don't build it, but maybe it's failing because Allegro didn't compile.
It's looking for the static library, but ZC doesn't use that. Check in lib/mingw32. If the dll's there, you can probably just make install and be done with it. Otherwise, maybe do a make veryclean and start again.

[Tamamo]

@Saffith

Okay got allegro compiled
Did you remove the Linkhandler or something? Says it can't find it.

make *** No rule to make target 'src/linkHandler.cpp' meeded by 'oj/linkHandler.o'