Cannot install ZSENES in Linux

[trucmuche04]

Hey everyone,

I'm running openSUSE 11.3 and i'm having problems installing zses. i've followed the install.txt instructions and made sure i installed all the required packages.

here's what happens when I type the "make" command:

samuel@linux:~/Zsnes/src> make
g++ -pipe -I. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -D__UNIXSDL__ -I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -DNCURSES -D__OPENGL__ -march=native -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -s -fno-rtti -o parsegen parsegen.cpp -lz
parsegen.cpp: In function ‘char* get_token(char*, const char*)’:
parsegen.cpp:131:38: error: ‘strchr’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp:140:41: error: ‘strchr’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp: In function ‘variable::ctype variable::GetCType(const char*)’:
parsegen.cpp:425:42: error: ‘strcmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp: In function ‘const char* convert_asm_type(const char*, bool)’:
parsegen.cpp:615:28: error: ‘strcasecmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp:644:69: error: ‘strlen’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp:644:70: error: ‘strncmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp: In function ‘void handle_directive(const char*, const char*)’:
parsegen.cpp40: error: ‘strcasecmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp: In function ‘char* get_comment(char)’:
parsegen.cpp39: error: ‘strlen’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp: In function ‘void output_header_conditional(std::ostream&, const char*, const char*)’:
parsegen.cpp42: error: ‘strcasecmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp: In function ‘void parser_generate(std::istream&, std::ostream&, std::ostream&, const std::string&)’:
parsegen.cpp74: error: ‘strlen’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp36: error: ‘strcasecmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp93: error: ‘strncasecmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp33: error: ‘strchr’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp94: error: ‘strncmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp21: error: ‘strcmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp: At global scope:
parsegen.cpp5: warning: first argument of ‘int main(size_t, const char* const*)’ should be ‘int’
parsegen.cpp: In function ‘int main(size_t, const char* const*)’:
parsegen.cpp42: error: ‘strncmp’ was not declared in this scope
parsegen.cpp49: error: ‘strcmp’ was not declared in this scope
make: *** [parsegen] Erreur 1
samuel@linux:~/Zsnes/src>

I appreciate your insight!

Sam

[badinsults]

I have to say, you spelled of "zsnes" was wrong twice, with two different spellings. That must be some kind of record.


Secondly, it looks like you are missing some dependencies, in particular glibc.

[Gil_Hamilton]

I have to say, you spelled of "zsnes" was wrong twice, with two different spellings. That must be some kind of record.

They're also both novel mis-spellings, instead of the usual zee-nes.

[badinsults]

I have to say, you spelled of "zsnes" was wrong twice, with two different spellings. That must be some kind of record.

They're also both novel mis-spellings, instead of the usual zee-nes.

This is a Canadian emulator. It is pronounced "zed-nes"!

[Agozer]

I take it that Canadians (the British too?) pronounce the letter Z as "Zed" and Americans as "Zee", yes? I'm a sucker for these things.

[Johan_H]

I'm pretty sure the "zee" is exclusive to the United States.
Though they make up I'm guessing more than half of all native English speakers, so it might be the most common pronunciation after all?

[paulguy]

Zed es en ee es sounds pretty wrong. Zee es en ee es sounds right in that it kinda flows, and all the words kinda have similar sounds.

[trucmuche04]

I have to say, you spelled of "zsnes" was wrong twice, with two different spellings. That must be some kind of record.


Secondly, it looks like you are missing some dependencies, in particular glibc.

When looking at my software manager, I see that I currently have glibc, glibc-devel, glibc-locale (all 2.11.2-3.3.1) and linux-glibc-devel 2.6.32-3.3 installed.

Other variant of glibc that aren't installed are -i18ndata, -info, -obsolete, -profile, -html. Is it that I have to install one of those or is it that the ones I have installed are sufficient and that you misdiagnosed my problem?

I promise to entertain this community with more typos if i get useful help!

Thanks

A Zed-ness fan (that's how I always called it)

[grinvader]

Zed-ness

¬_¬

[DataPath]

When looking at my software manager, I see that I currently have glibc, glibc-devel, glibc-locale (all 2.11.2-3.3.1) and linux-glibc-devel 2.6.32-3.3 installed.

Other variant of glibc that aren't installed are -i18ndata, -info, -obsolete, -profile, -html. Is it that I have to install one of those or is it that the ones I have installed are sufficient and that you misdiagnosed my problem?

Are you missing a few lines from your source?

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#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>

I'm guessing this is code being ported from Windows, because under some circumstances, msvc will auto-include certain headers. You also probably need to do something else in order to get strcasecmp.

[kode54]

MSVC does not auto include any headers. The problem may be that the relevant development headers for those libraries are not installed. Binary distributions usually separate the binary modules from the development headers and linker modules when packaging things, since it saves some disk space and bandwidth, since you don't need the development stuff to run precompiled binaries.

[Gonzo]

I'm pretty sure the "zee" is exclusive to the United States.
Though they make up I'm guessing more than half of all native English speakers, so it might be the most common pronunciation after all?

Nope, Australia too. I think due to something like 70 to 80 percent of the content of Australian television coming from America, it's pretty much intrenched over here too. I have from time to time seen older people correcting younger people(my older sister works in a school, and it's one of her pet peeves). I personally prefer "zee" because I like the sound better. And whenever I hear "Zed" all I can think is, "Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead."

[trucmuche04]

Ok for future reference, here is all I had to do to finally install ZSNES properly

1. Uncompress the downloaded file to a folder and read up all relevant .txt files (readme, install, etc) and install the required dependencies.

2. Go to to /src/tools/strutil.h and add following line of code

#include <strings.h>

3. In the same folder, go to depbuild.cpp and add the following line of code :

#include <cstdlib>

then find the int main function and make it look like this (basically just change the first argument to 'int'):

int main (int argc, const char *const *const argv)

4. Then go back to /src and open parsegen.cpp file and add the following lines :

#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>

and do the same modification as previous on the int main function.

5. Then you can run the configure and make command as described in the install.txt file

6. Finally, just typing make install won't work since you need root privilege. Instead, type

sudo make install

It'll ask for root password and then install.

At that point, you should be able to run zsnes by running the zsnes executable.

Now as a final comment... in my books, a program that needs to have lines of code rewritten is not a program that's ready. I've been using Zedness for many years and I've never had to go through any loops and bends in order to install it successfully although I admit it is my first linux install. Now, is that simply the nature of linux or is it bad programming on the part of the zsnes team? In any case, I've installed other program in linux and the installation was as seamless as a windows install. I don't think we should have to go beyond the instructions provided within the readme/install file in order to run zsnes.

That being said, I still want to thank the zsnes team for making snes emulation possible for I think this program is great in all other regards.

Thanks for all the other for their help.

[kode54]

2. Go to to /src/tools/strutil.h and add following line of code

#include <strings.h>

You mean string.h, right?

[Jonas Quinn]

Starting with GCC 4.3 some C++ include stuff was changed. This version should work with it.