ZSNES with MinGW and MSYS

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:33 pm

The makefile in CVS has been updated to include UNIx-like environments. [win32-unix-shell is the PLATFORM flag for it, I believe.]

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:28 am

Vareni Stargazer wrote:The makefile in CVS has been updated to include UNIx-like environments. [win32-unix-shell is the PLATFORM flag for it, I believe.]

Yes, I saw.

I was also informed that that commit referred to you, not me.

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:10 pm

Yeah, cos I wouldn't stop bitching 'til he did something about non-cmd.exe commandlines.

Post by **Nach** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:23 pm

Noxious Ninja wrote:
Vareni Stargazer wrote:The makefile in CVS has been updated to include UNIx-like environments. [win32-unix-shell is the PLATFORM flag for it, I believe.]
Yes, I saw.

I was also informed that that commit referred to you, not me.

It referred to both of you.

ieremiou · Post by **ieremiou** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:07 pm

"rm -f" just got added to the CVS so that part is in still have to commit out the "\blahblablah" and "del" stuff.

Otherwise looking good.

Although I said this already in the main CVS thread two of the four GUIs aren't working for me. Water Effect B and Burning Effect.

Just to let you all know that I'm seeing this.

Like I also said. Burning Effect works in Ipher's MSVC build.

/Ieremiou

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:13 pm

The burn effect uses MSVC-specific C somewhere. We haven't been able to ferret it out, so it won't work.

Dead · Post by **Dead** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:26 am

Free versions of MSVC are available here and here.

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:15 pm

Hello. I followed Noxious Ninja's how to compile guide (the last edited one) I got it until I reached the 8. step.

If I try to compile the ZSNES last official source I get this error:

nasm -O1 -f gnuwin32 -D__WIN32__ -o chips/fxemu2.obj chips/fxemu2.asm
nasm: fatal: unrecognised output format `gnuwin32' - use -hf for a list
type `nasm -h' for help
mingw32-make: *** [chips/fxemu2.obj] Error 1
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

C:\MINGW\SRC\ZSNES\SRC>

What can be the problem?

Im using the following libs/sources/progs:

dx80_mgw.zip
libpng-1.2.8.tar.gz
MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe
nasm-0.98.39-win32.zip
w32api-3.2.tar.gz
zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz

and the ZSNES 1.42 source code

and at last, my command is this:

@echo off
Set PATH=PATH;c:\mingw\bin;%PATH%
chdir c:\MinGW\src\zsnes\src
mingw32-make -f makefile.ms PLATFORM=win32
command

launched from a .bat batch file.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:19 pm

Some changes were been made to the development tools after the release of 1.42, and my instructions reflect those changes. If you want to compile 1.42, you will need to use this version of NASM.

Oh, and you should use MinGW 3.2.0-rc3.

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:35 pm

Thanks for the quick response, I will try it out immediately, but first:

can I compile the older versions of zsnes with the new utils you mentioned?

and shold i recompile the zlib and libpng too?

(or) is it enough if I copy over the new util packs to my old MinGW system?

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:37 pm

The new NASM link you added is broken is broken... can you tell me the version number? Till that I will use the newest one I find...

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:49 pm

wow the new MinGW is 150 megabytes... this is weird

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:53 pm

I still need to overwrite everything with win32api if I use this new mingw?

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:55 pm

It seams that this new wersion already contains all the files from win32api3.2

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:38 pm

There's an

button.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:44 pm

mague wrote:Thanks for the quick response, I will try it out immediately, but first:

can I compile the older versions of zsnes with the new utils you mentioned?

Older version of ZSNES cannot be compiled with MinGW. 1.41+ can be, I don't remember about 1.40. The only util that changed after 1.42 was NASM.

and shold i recompile the zlib and libpng too?

I recommend recompiling everything with the latest MinGW.

mague wrote:The new NASM link you added is broken is broken... can you tell me the version number? Till that I will use the newest one I find...

It was a special version made just for ZSNES. I guess Nach removed it since it was no longer needed. You can get it here: http://rapidshare.de/files-en/542604/nasmw.zip.html. For CVS compiles or versions after 1.42, you should use the latest official NASM.

mague wrote:I still need to overwrite everything with win32api if I use this new mingw?

Yes

mague wrote:It seams that this new wersion already contains all the files from win32api3.2

Almost everything, but not quite.

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:45 pm

to creaothceann:
Thanks for the info, I did not see that... and yes, this is fixed my problem

truely...

to Noxious Ninja:

Thanks again, I will recompile everything then.
I found that the latest official NASM was: nasm-0.98.39-win32.zip and I already used that. Or there is a newer version somewhere? On sourceforge I could not find any newer...

Finally It compiled, thanks for all your help.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:53 pm

To compile 1.41 and 1.42 you need the special NASM that I posted.

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:59 pm

And for newer versions that will turn out in that time I think, again, thanks everithing.

Is it possible/or permitted to change the gui (menu) asm's so it can be translated to other language?

And what characters is the ZSNES supports? I need 6 extra chars for the language I want. That is in the ASCII code table in the secound 128 characters...

And one last question, is it true that the burn and water effect is not working without msvc compiling? (Is it crashes the emu or its simply not response to the configuratin?)

Post by **Nach** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:47 pm

Noxious Ninja wrote:
It was a special version made just for ZSNES. I guess Nach removed it since it was no longer needed.

No...
You linked our visitor to a thread he can't access, not my NASM.

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:26 pm

ZSNES isn't support extra/special characters like éáűőúöüó?

I tried to make it with "dos-> west-european" format, but stil no spec chars...

Haw can they be added? I have to write the shar graphics in asm code to get them?

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:33 pm

Nach wrote:No...
You linked our visitor to a thread he can't access, not my NASM.

Oh. I didn't even think about that. My bad.

mague wrote:ZSNES isn't support extra/special characters like éáűőúöüó?

I tried to make it with "dos-> west-european" format, but stil no spec chars...

Haw can they be added? I have to write the shar graphics in asm code to get them?

You would have to add the font for the characters.

mague wrote:And one last question, is it true that the burn and water effect is not working without msvc compiling? (Is it crashes the emu or its simply not response to the configuratin?)

Just the burn/smoke effect doesn't work. It doesn't crash, it simply doesn't display the effect.

EDIT: I'm kind of confused here. Which file corresponds to the ZSNES "burning effect", smoke.c or burn.c?

mague · Post by **mague** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:39 pm

And these fonts are also programmed in assembly... unfortunately, my assembly language knowledge is not so impressive... then, I will start to learn assembly...

thanks for the info.

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:08 pm

Noxious Ninja wrote:EDIT: I'm kind of confused here. Which file corresponds to the ZSNES "burning effect", smoke.c or burn.c?

burn.c, I believe. smoke.c is the old smoke effect.

I don't know where the snow effect's stored, but it's probably in the one for the water effects.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:11 pm

Vareni Stargazer wrote:
Noxious Ninja wrote:EDIT: I'm kind of confused here. Which file corresponds to the ZSNES "burning effect", smoke.c or burn.c?
burn.c, I believe. smoke.c is the old smoke effect.

I don't know where the snow effect's stored, but it's probably in the one for the water effects.

The snow effect is stored in gui.asm.