Grx May 2004

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3 discussions

Simplifying cross-development
by Peter Gerwinski 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

Hi, cross-development with GRX has always required some manual hacking: You have to adjust compiler, linker, etc. manually, and when you try to use, for instance, makefile.dj2 under GNU/Linux, `make clean' fails because the shell does not like `if exist foo.o del foo.o'. The attached `diff' patches the configure script and the makefiles such that all this works automatically. :-) If you do not cross-compile, you should not notice the difference, but, as I do not have a self-hosting DJGPP or MINGW intalled, I did not test this. How this works: - The target directory is now named INSTALLDIR for all platforms. (This makes it much easier and less error-prone to configure it automatically.) - There is a new variable CROSS_PLATFORM which contains the prefix for the cross development tools (e.g. "i386-mingw32-" when you want to use i386-mingw32-gcc instead of plain gcc). - There is a new variable HAVE_UNIX_TOOLS. When set to "y", the DJ2 and W32 makefiles use "rm" instead of "del", "cp" instead of "copy", etc. This is needed for cross-development, but it is also useful if you are working with a self-hosting DJGPP or mingw32. - You can edit all this in makedefs.grx. In addition, the configure script has been adapted to set these variables automatically if you feed it with a GCC-style target specification such as "--target=i386-pc-msdosdjgpp". Have fun, Peter

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sdl driver release candicate 4
by Dimitar Zhekov 28 May '04

28 May '04

- improved/hacked win~1 screen save/restore - still doesn't work properly on WinXP (NT, 2K anyone?) - fixed demogrx to use spawn not system under win~1 (COMSPEC needs a console to run, but demogrx is GUI) The makefiles are still not official, as explained in "sdl driver release candicate 2". Enjoy! -- E-gards: Jimmy

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linuxfb problems
by Lance Luvaul 01 May '04

01 May '04

GRX compile and install went fine; link with user program went fine. Using 'svgalib' works (only certain resolutions, but I'll save discussion for another thread). Using 'linuxfb' results in: "GrSetMode: could not find suitable video driver" I tried both as user 'root' and as other: same error. 'lfbinfo' (run both as 'root' and as other) yields: "Can't open /dev/fb0" I checked that /dev/fb0 *does* exist (and other various /dev/fb#). Found a reference in GRX mailing list archive that framebuffer support might not be enabled. How do I enable framebuffer support on Linux? XFree86 config? Kernel recompile? How? How do I check if framebuffer support is already enabled? Thanks in advance for any help anyone could provide. Lance

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