[Info-vax] Building AXPbox

[Joukj]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 11/26/20 9:23 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>> So, the holiday gave me the time to give this a shot.  Sadly,
>> no luck.  I successfully downloaded everything to my Ubuntu
>> box ran cmake and then make.  It dies every time trying to
>> build SDL.
>>
>> First error is:
>>
>> /home/bill/AXPBox/axpbox/src/gui/sdl.cpp:203:3: error: 
>> ‘SDL_EnableKeyRepeat’ was not declared in this scope
>>     SDL_EnableKeyRepeat(250, 50);
>>     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> /home/bill/AXPBox/axpbox/src/gui/sdl.cpp:203:3: note: suggested 
>> alternative: ‘SDL_enabled_assert’
>>     SDL_EnableKeyRepeat(250, 50);
>>     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>     SDL_enabled_assert
>>
>> And it then does the same for what appears to be all the calls to
>> SDL routines.
>>
>> Does AXPbox require a specific (older) vversion of SDL?
>>
> 
> I think I have it figured out.  It won't build with SDL2.
> Being as I know of no way to roll back to SDL1 I guess once
> again this project comes to a screeching halt.
> 
> bill
> 

On my Fedora system both SDL and SDL2 are installed and axpbox just 
compiles fine. Is it not possible on Ubuntu to install SDL next to SDL2?

On the other hand SDL is only used for the graphic console, which may be 
still rather buggy. Try to compile without SDL support.

      Jouk