Re: [PDCurses] Cross compiling for AROS

2006-01-22 Thread Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, I wrote:
>
>> There isn't really any specific support for the Amiga in
>> PDCurses. I'm not sure why it was listed in the README in 2.5 and
>> 2.6 (I've asked Mark),
>
> OK, Mark found an Amiga port from the 2.4 era. I've put it up in the
> 2.4 section on SourceForge (amiga-port.tar.gz). It seems very
> incomplete. I haven't tested it, and I can't read the .info files yet
> (gotta set up UAE again, I guess). Presumably you'd extract the
> original 2.4 archive first, then this on top of it.

I'm not sure if it's the same on Amiga, but on AROS, the .info files
are icons as well as other meta information for other files.

All informations should be text files, possibly formatted in
AmigaGuide (which look, at first glance, something like texinfo
files).

Other than that, thanks, I'll take a look ;)


Johann

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Re: [PDCurses] Cross compiling for AROS

2006-01-21 Thread William McBrine

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, I wrote:

There isn't really any specific support for the Amiga in PDCurses. I'm 
not sure why it was listed in the README in 2.5 and 2.6 (I've asked 
Mark),


OK, Mark found an Amiga port from the 2.4 era. I've put it up in the 2.4 
section on SourceForge (amiga-port.tar.gz). It seems very incomplete. I 
haven't tested it, and I can't read the .info files yet (gotta set up UAE 
again, I guess). Presumably you'd extract the original 2.4 archive first, 
then this on top of it.


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Re: [PDCurses] Cross compiling for AROS

2006-01-20 Thread Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
William McBrine writes:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
>
>> Since PDCurses are supposed to work on Amiga, I thought porting to
>> AROS would be a synch,
>
> There isn't really any specific support for the Amiga in PDCurses. I'm
> not sure why it was listed in the README in 2.5 and 2.6 (I've asked
> Mark), but I believe it was a mistake. The configure script is only
> for the X11 port. If you have an X server for the Amiga OS (or for
> AROS), it might work; but I can't attest to that.

Ok, but assuming I still want to go ahead and port PDCurses, where do
I start?  I'll need to create a Makefile (autoconf simply won't do,
IMHO, to cross compile) and somewhere I need to put the screen
painting code for AROS.

> You'd probably have more luck with NCurses.

Not sure, though I think I have a version that was supposedly ported
to Amiga once, the code might be a lot more complicated, or something.
It probably depends on which version is easier to compile.


Johann

P.S. The console support in AROS is currently very broken, so I might
give up, or fix it.

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Re: [PDCurses] Cross compiling for AROS

2006-01-19 Thread William McBrine

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:


Since PDCurses are supposed to work on Amiga, I thought porting to
AROS would be a synch,


There isn't really any specific support for the Amiga in PDCurses. I'm not 
sure why it was listed in the README in 2.5 and 2.6 (I've asked Mark), but 
I believe it was a mistake. The configure script is only for the X11 port. 
If you have an X server for the Amiga OS (or for AROS), it might work; but 
I can't attest to that.


You'd probably have more luck with NCurses.

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[PDCurses] Cross compiling for AROS

2006-01-19 Thread Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
Hi,

I've been making feeble attempts to cross compile this for AROS, and
that doesn't seem to work.  At least not when using the ./configure
script.

Aros is: http://www.aros.org/

The cross compiler I'm using is here:

http://www.zerohero.se/cross/aros.html

Since PDCurses are supposed to work on Amiga, I thought porting to
AROS would be a synch, but I do need some pointers on where to start.
In particular, is it supposed to work on AmigaOS 3?  AFAIK, AROS is an
AOS 3.1 clone.


Johann

P.S. There are reasons I don't like autoconf myself, one of them is
that it's horrible when trying to setup a cross compiling environment
(which, btw, I have done).

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