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Posted by Mightyfoo (2 posts) Bio

Date Wed 06 Apr 2005 05:01 PM (UTC)

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Hi! I'd like to thank all the folks who are running and contributing to this forum. All of your posts and suggestions really helped out a lot.

I'm a (currently)non-programmer(but learning), but a MUD lover, and wanted to set up a mud for the gaming community I hang out in, and decided on ROM after much reading.

I wanted to install it on a spare mini-Mac that I have and ran into quite a few compiling problems. Luckily I found this forum, and applied a lot of the suggestions to make it all work out. So I'm posting here to help any Mac users out.

Here's the Makefile I used for Rom 2.4b6


CC      = gcc
PROF    = -O -g
NOCRYPT =
C_FLAGS =  -Wall $(PROF) $(NOCRYPT) -Dunix -DOLD_RAND
L_FLAGS =  $(PROF)

O_FILES = act_comm.o act_enter.o act_info.o act_move.o act_obj.o act_wiz.o \
          alias.o ban.o comm.o const.o db.o db2.o effects.o fight.o flags.o \
          handler.o healer.o interp.o note.o lookup.o magic.o magic2.o \
          music.o recycle.o save.o scan.o skills.o special.o tables.o \
          update.o

rom: $(O_FILES)
        rm -f rom
        $(CC) $(L_FLAGS) -o rom $(O_FILES)

.c.o: merc.h
        $(CC) -c $(C_FLAGS) $<

Now, since I'm a COMPLETE noob and don't know how to modify header paths, I kept having compiler issues saying it couldn't find malloc.h, so I performed a cardinal sin and copied the malloc.h from /usr/include/malloc/malloc.h to /usr/include/malloc.h and after it compiled fine, I deleted it from it's incorrect location.

That's all, it works fine under 10.4 now. Just wanted to share and maybe save someone some time.

Thanks all!

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Posted by

Robert Powell Australia (367 posts) Bio

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Reply #1 on Wed 06 Apr 2005 06:11 PM (UTC)

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Your shouldnt delete the libraries from there current locations, this can break a great many things that rely on that library to funbction.

A simple fix you your problem would have been to change -Dunix in your make file with -Dmacintosh.

If you look in the top section of your .c files you will see #if defined(macintosh), it i think is also used in other places throughtout the code, so that mac's can use mac specific code, rather than what ever is the default.

Hope that helps some.

Peace.

Just a guy having a bit of fun. Nothing more, nothing less, I do not need I WIN to feel validated.

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Mightyfoo (2 posts) Bio

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Reply #2 on Wed 06 Apr 2005 06:15 PM (UTC)

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Thanks for the tips. I didn't delete the header from it's initial location, I copied it to a different location so it would compile, then I deleted it from it's new location when it was done compiling.

I was afraid to use the Macintosh switch, since the original code predates OSX I was assuming that 'macintosh' meant OS 9 and previous, which is definitely different than OSX.

Thanks again!

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