Hello everyone and yes I am going to state, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

How poetic in todays time!


Anyway I had to state wow is the response time fast with the linux version of SBBS.

Question though, if I didn't use SYMLINK=1 but missed adding USE DOSEMU=1 Other then a (chill) fresh install what does the added link add? And can I
do something now?

I already have dosemu up and running.

Thanks all....

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Re: SBBS linux
By: Havok to All on Mon Dec 16 2019 02:42 pm

Hello everyone and yes I am going to state, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

How poetic in todays time!

Anyway I had to state wow is the response time fast with the linux version of SBBS.

Question though, if I didn't use SYMLINK=1 but missed adding USE DOSEMU=1 Other then a (chill) fresh install what does the added link add? And can I do something now?

Yeah, just include the "symlinks" in your make command-lines. http://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix#updating

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Re: SBBS linux
By: Digital Man to Havok on Mon Dec 16 2019 02:38 pm

Yeah, just include the "symlinks" in your make command-lines. http://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix#updating

Thanks, again, again and again!

I'll take a look at that tomorrow...

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Havok wrote:

Re: SBBS linux
By: Digital Man to Havok on Mon Dec 16 2019 02:38 pm

Yeah, just include the "symlinks" in your make command-lines.
http://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix#updating

Thanks, again, again and again!

I used to forget to inlude USE_DOSEMU often.

You can add to or create, if it's not there, localdefs.mk in /sbbs/src/sbbs3 which just contains

USE_DOSEMU=1

The build system will use this at compile time and add it automatically.

I also have a build script that downloads and ocmpiles the source plus other bits and bobs. It's worth creating a script to do it for you, it leaves less
to chance and memory.

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Re: SBBS linux
By: Havok to All on Mon Dec 16 2019 14:42:01

Question though, if I didn't use SYMLINK=1 but missed adding USE DOSEMU=1 Other then a (chill) fresh install what does the added link add? And can I
do something now?

SYMLINK=1 tells the script to create soft-links in sbbs/exec to the sbbs binaries where they are compiled instead of copying them to sbbs/exec... if you are not tight on drive space, leaving it out is ok...

FWIW: i have two scripts that i wrote to manage an sbbs install and keep it updated with the latest code... one does a bare metal install and build while the other is the one that is run the most to update and build new code... i thought i had them in repos on my github but apparently i do not... i will have to rectify that sometime... i did share them on a paste site but don't recall the link to it ATM... if you're interested, let me know and i'll get them into a repo... several folks have used them with success :)


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Re: Re: SBBS linux
By: Nelgin to Havok on Tue Dec 17 2019 06:09 am

The build system will use this at compile time and add it automatically.

I also have a build script that downloads and ocmpiles the source plus other bits and bobs. It's worth creating a script to do it for you, it leaves less to chance and memory.

Agreed I see a lot of times I better write that down!


If you ever want to share your hard work and memory on script you made!

Thanks for the reply...



-Havok

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Re: SBBS linux
By: Rampage to Havok on Tue Dec 17 2019 09:31 am

Re: SBBS linux
By: Havok to All on Mon Dec 16 2019 14:42:01

Question though, if I didn't use SYMLINK=1 but missed adding USE DOSEMU=1 Other then a (chill) fresh install what does the added link add? And can I do something now?

SYMLINK=1 tells the script to create soft-links in sbbs/exec to the sbbs binaries where they are compiled instead of copying them to sbbs/exec... if you are not tight on drive space, leaving it out is ok...

Leaving it out of the install script means the binaries will be copied from the build output dirs to your exec dir. Then subsequent rebuilds won't take effect (be executed) unless you manually copy the binaries yourself or use the "install" target when running the re-build make command-lines.

I know you know this, but for everyone else: Once the symlinks are created in exec, they don't normally need recreated unless you switch between release and debug builds (or change your build directory for any other reason). By defualt, the GNUmakefiles in src/sbbs3/* don't copy or (re)symlink the output files.

If you're not going to use symlinks, then I suggest adding the "install" target to your make command-lines when rebuilding in src/sbbs3, etc. so that the newly built binaries will be copied into your exec directory.

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Re: SBBS linux
By: Rampage to Havok on Tue Dec 17 2019 09:31 am

If you're interested, let me know and i'll get them into a repo... several folks have used them with success :)

I too, would be greatly interested.


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Havok wrote:

Re: Re: SBBS linux
By: Nelgin to Havok on Tue Dec 17 2019 06:09 am

The build system will use this at compile time and add it automatically.

I also have a build script that downloads and ocmpiles the source plus
other bits and bobs. It's worth creating a script to do it for you, it
leaves less to chance and memory.

Agreed I see a lot of times I better write that down!

If you ever want to share your hard work and memory on script you made!

Thanks for the reply...

-Havok

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It's simple enough. INC is used if I want to a "one off" update of a
particular file that may have been changed. pushd and popd keep the current directory so it'll return me where I came from. You could add your
USE_DOSEMU=1 SYMLINKS=1 in the make command here or, as I meantioned, use
the localdefs.mk file.

If you customize your text.dat file you may not wanted to update it.

#!/bin/bash

INC="text/menu/editor.asc"

pushd /sbbs
cvs update -d src 3rdp exec docs xtrn ctrl/text.dat ${INC}
cd /sbbs/src/sbbs3
make -j3
if [[ $? -ne 0 ]] ; then
echo "Error in compilation"
exit 1
fi
cd /sbbs/exec
jsexec update
popd

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On 12-17-19 09:12, Digital Man wrote to Rampage <=-

If you're not going to use symlinks, then I suggest adding the
"install" target to your make command-lines when rebuilding in
src/sbbs3, etc. so that the newly built binaries will be copied into
your exec directory.

Yeah I'm likely to use the install target anyway, too used to that with other software. :)


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El 16/12/19 a las 16:42, Havok escribi¢:

Hello everyone and yes I am going to state, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

How poetic in todays time!

Anyway I had to state wow is the response time fast with the linux version of SBBS.

sbbs run very well on linux.

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