talvola@janus.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola) (07/26/89)
Well, I have Nethack 3.0 built and running on a Sun 3/50 now, and it
seems to run fine. A couple of points:
1) I used GCC to compile it. As someone noted, you have to use
-fwritable-strings, and there were many warnings of the type
'initialization of non-const * pointer from const *'. I
also had to change system.h to make GCC use the 'int sprintf'
definition, even though since BSD is set, it wanted to use
the 'char *sprintf' definition. This is because sprintf() is
already defined in GCC's stdio.h.
2) I get lots of little messages when I run the program. They are all
of the form:
Nethack (setctty): Inappropriate ioctl for device
About 3 of these appear when I am selecting my class, etc., and a
couple appear at the end of the game. Nothing like this appears
during the actual game however.
3) When I turned invisible (from a ring), the cursor remained visible
and followed me around, so I could tell where I was. Not sure
if this is a feature or a bug, but on PC-Nethack v2.3, you were
completely invisible.
All in all, I enjoy the new game. Now the problem will be compiling it
to fit on my MS-DOS system at home and still keep enough good features...
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In article <TALVOLA.89Jul25100540@janus.berkeley.edu> talvola@janus.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola) writes: > 1) I used GCC to compile it. As someone noted, you have to use > -fwritable-strings, and there were many warnings of the type > 'initialization of non-const * pointer from const *'. I > also had to change system.h to make GCC use the 'int sprintf' > definition, even though since BSD is set, it wanted to use > the 'char *sprintf' definition. This is because sprintf() is > already defined in GCC's stdio.h. Hmmm...I had not such trouble with the defintion of sprintf. But then, it doesn't really matter if you don't get an error. :-) > 2) I get lots of little messages when I run the program. They are all > of the form: > Nethack (setctty): Inappropriate ioctl for device This probably indication that your GCC is installed wrong, and you don't have the changed version of the ioctl.h header file installed. Make sure this is done. > About 3 of these appear when I am selecting my class, etc., and a > couple appear at the end of the game. Nothing like this appears > during the actual game however. Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. Telephone: +1 505 292 0001 / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!