[Info-vax] Building AXPbox

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/27/20 2:46 AM, Joukj wrote:
> 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?

I looked at it quickly but couldn't find a way to do both of them
as in the end they both want to link to a directory just called SDL.
> 
> On the other hand SDL is only used for the graphic console, which may be 
> still rather buggy. Try to compile without SDL support.

I tried that, too.  I tried commenting out the tests for both the
includes and libraries.  It still prints the message "found SDL" and
tries to build with it.

Too many other irons in the fire.  I'll get back to this eventually.
Maybe even look at how much work it would be to move to SDL2.

bill