DRD Team

Hello, has anyone tried to build the source code on a Pi3, raspbian Jessie?
I only did cmake . and then make but it fails.
Do you have any advice or step I didnt take?
Also, if I succeed can I use saves from my windows PC?
Thanks

It has been compiled for the Pi before although it has been awhile. Yes saves are binary compatible although you'll likely have to start with the "--foreignsaves" option to override the game data checks due to bug that isn't quite trivial to solve.

First a side note: When using CMake you should create a build directory and run cmake in there like so: CMake is designed for "out of tree" usage so this allows you to easily cleanup and try again if something gets super messed up by just deleting the build directory.

What is the output that CMake gives you?

Here's what I get after doing cmake ..
pi@piserver:~/ecwolf-1.3.3-src/build $ cmake ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.9.2
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.9.2
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libz.so (found version "1.2.8")
-- Found BZip2: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbz2.so (found version "1.0.6")
-- Looking for BZ2_bzCompressInit
-- Looking for BZ2_bzCompressInit - found
-- Found JPEG: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libjpeg.so
-- /usr/include
-- /usr/include
-- /home/pi/ecwolf-1.3.3-src/lzma/C
CMake Warning (dev) at CMakeLists.txt:27 (get_target_property):
Policy CMP0026 is not set: Disallow use of the LOCATION target property.
Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0026" for policy details. Use the cmake_policy
command to set the policy and suppress this warning.

The LOCATION property should not be read from target "zipdir". Use the
target name directly with add_custom_command, or use the generator
expression $<TARGET_FILE>, as appropriate.

Call Stack (most recent call first):
wadsrc/CMakeLists.txt:3 (add_pk3)
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at gdtoa/CMakeLists.txt:22 (get_target_property):
Policy CMP0026 is not set: Disallow use of the LOCATION target property.
Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0026" for policy details. Use the cmake_policy
command to set the policy and suppress this warning.

The LOCATION property should not be read from target "arithchk". Use the
target name directly with add_custom_command, or use the generator
expression $<TARGET_FILE>, as appropriate.

This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at gdtoa/CMakeLists.txt:31 (get_target_property):
Policy CMP0026 is not set: Disallow use of the LOCATION target property.
Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0026" for policy details. Use the cmake_policy
command to set the policy and suppress this warning.

The LOCATION property should not be read from target "qnan". Use the
target name directly with add_custom_command, or use the generator
expression $<TARGET_FILE>, as appropriate.

This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at src/CMakeLists.txt:5 (get_target_property):
Policy CMP0026 is not set: Disallow use of the LOCATION target property.
Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0026" for policy details. Use the cmake_policy
command to set the policy and suppress this warning.

The LOCATION property should not be read from target "updaterevision". Use
the target name directly with add_custom_command, or use the generator
expression $<TARGET_FILE>, as appropriate.

This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.28")
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-- Looking for pthread.h - found
-- Looking for pthread_create
-- Looking for pthread_create - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Found SDL: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libSDLmain.a;/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libSDL.so;-lpthread (found version "1.2.15")
-- Found SDL_mixer: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libSDL_mixer.so (found version "1.2.12")
-- Looking for stricmp
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-- Looking for atoll - found
-- Performing Test HAS_VA_COPY
-- Performing Test HAS_VA_COPY - Success
-- Checking for module 'gtk+-2.0'
-- Found gtk+-2.0, version 2.24.25
-- Configuring done
CMake Warning (dev) at gdtoa/CMakeLists.txt:48 (add_dependencies):
Policy CMP0046 is not set: Error on non-existent dependency in
add_dependencies. Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0046" for policy details.
Use the cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress this warning.

The dependency target "/gd_qnan.h" of target "gdtoa" does not exist.
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at gdtoa/CMakeLists.txt:48 (add_dependencies):
Policy CMP0046 is not set: Error on non-existent dependency in
add_dependencies. Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0046" for policy details.
Use the cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress this warning.

The dependency target "/home/pi/ecwolf-1.3.3-src/build/gdtoa/arith.h" of
target "gdtoa" does not exist.
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/pi/ecwolf-1.3.3-src/build
pi@piserver:~/ecwolf-1.3.3-src/build $

Here after i run make in the build folder:
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In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.9/clocale:42:0,
from /home/pi/ecwolf-1.3.3-src/src/wl_main.cpp:49:
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/* Copyright (C) 1991-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
^
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using ::setlocale;
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using ::localeconv;
^
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/home/pi/ecwolf-1.3.3-src/src/wl_main.cpp:1210:12: error: ‘LC_ALL’ was not declared in this scope
setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
^
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setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
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pi@piserver:~/ecwolf-1.3.3-src/build $

lorecast162 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2017 15:00

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In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.9/clocale:42:0,
                 from /home/pi/ecwolf-1.3.3-src/src/wl_main.cpp:49:
/usr/include/locale.h:1:1: error: unterminated comment
 /* Copyright (C) 1991-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 ^

This looks quite odd to me. I can't imagine your system headers are actually flawed unless you modified them before for some reason. But it looks like whatever is causing this is your only compilation issue.

Then, what should I do? I can maybe try doing a fresh install on another SD card and see what appens, and maybe copying the binary to this one.

Unless you can show that the problem isn't in your system header files, there's not much I can tell you besides there appears to be a missing "*/" near the top of /usr/include/locale.h.

Uhm... There is a /* , but isn't // used to comment code? BTW I modified /* to //, ran make again, but it failed, mentioning locale.h many times. I did cmake .. again, failed another time, the include.h files looks weird tho.

Everything between "/*" and "*/" is a comment in C. C++ added the single line "//" comments and then C got them later.

Unless there's something usual about that file, everything up until the first line starting with a "#" should be commented out.

if this can help, this is a screenshot made from my XP machine while SFTPing to the pi and looking at the locale.h file those squares (should be unidentified characters) are seen from nano directly from the pi too. is it supposed to be like this?

No. That file is severely messed up somehow.

mh... i'm worrying quite a bit
building it in Ubuntu MATE should be fine right? I mean the Pi ver., since they are both Debian-based

Yes, but you need system files that aren't corrupted.

well, i did a fresh install of Ubuntu MATE so that shouldnt be a problem, also, how do I install the custom SDL_mixer?

For the customized SDL_mixer, make sure you have the development libraries for libogg, libflac, libvorbis, libvorbisfile, libopus, libopusfile, libfluidsynth, and libmikmod. Clone my repository. Use CMake and to make your life a little be easier you can configure it to build a shared library: That should make a libSDL_mixer.so in the build directory which you should copy to your ECWolf build directory. Now switch to your ECWolf build directory and do: