FBA Compiling Problems

[Gryph]

Ok, I followed Weird's instructions to install PERL and it's still not fully working. I get a new error now. After it generates all the files and shows all those warnings as seen before, it gave this error:

 

Sequence (?<...) not recognized at Q:\fbasrc\src\scripts\gamelist.pl line 23.

make: *** [src/generated/driverlist.h] Error 2

[Agozer]

See, this is why I never really try tp compile my own programs; way too many things that you most likely don't have and things that can still go wrong.

Edited January 22, 2005 by Agozer

[Gryph]

Yeah, but I want to advance my emulator horizons and start making my own builds. But it's the educational aspects that I like.

[Xeon]

ahahahaha!!! "fbasrc"

 

wonder how many of us actually use that name for the FBA source folder?

[Gryph]

ahahahaha!!! "fbasrc"

 

wonder how many of us actually use that name for the FBA source folder?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What's wrong with it? What's the name of your folder? I changed it from fba_0294894_src to that so it'd be easier to type. But more importantly, got any clue what that error is?

[Agozer]

Fucking Bastard Application Source.

 

Educational purposes is a good excuse, but it's too much trouble for me anyways.

[Weirdy]

Ok, I followed Weird's instructions to install PERL and it's still not fully working. I get a new error now. After it generates all the files and shows all those warnings as seen before, it gave this error:

 

Sequence (?<...) not recognized at Q:\fbasrc\src\scripts\gamelist.pl line 23.

make: *** [src/generated/driverlist.h] Error 2

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

go look for that file

 

I forgot, but I fixed a problem that had to do with the directory of...something

 

go check it out

[Xeon]

ahahahaha!!! "fbasrc"

 

wonder how many of us actually use that name for the FBA source folder?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What's wrong with it? What's the name of your folder? I changed it from fba_0294894_src to that so it'd be easier to type. But more importantly, got any clue what that error is?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

the folder name i used? the same as yours. its all but a shallow thought so you can forget about it

 

also, i cant remember the workaround for that problem. at worst, if i remember correctly i just reinstalled everything then all worked fine.

 

check cygwin.txt for a binutils version that you should NOT use, that may be the one youre using and the one thats causing the problem, but thats just a guess.

 

the source actually isnt badly documented, but it has its own holes unfortunately.

[Gryph]

Jan Klassen posted this over at the FBA forums where I asked for help:

It seems you have a version of Perl that's too old. I don't use nsPerl, and as I've never heard of anyone having that problem I don't know how to fix it, sorry. The warnings should be harmless, you can get rid of them by using the version of gcc we used to build that source, which is 3.3 for the latest and (I think)either 3.3 or 3.2 for 0.2.94.98.

 

So I'm going to get a new version of Perl and I might get the new GCC but that's not important since those warnings are harmless. What version of Perl do you use? I was amazed he wasn't using nsPerl since that's the one recommended in the documentation.

[Gryph]

I finally got it to work. Thanks to everyone that helped me here, I appreciate it very much.