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Title: Angband On Oz/collie?
Post by: Storm on February 06, 2007, 10:46:14 pm

I've really been kinda itching to play this game. Is there a chance of it being packaged for OZ? I started looking for a doc on how to set up a cross-compile environment and packaging, but didn't find much. If someone could talk me through setting things up, I could have a go at packaging it myself.

Tks,
--Storm

Title: Angband On Oz/collie?
Post by: lardman on February 12, 2007, 03:54:17 am

You should start on http://openembedded.org (http://openembedded.org) with the GettingStarted page.

This will build the cross toolchain (etc.) for you, then you just need to write the .bb file for the game.


Simon

Title: Angband On Oz/collie?
Post by: ZDevil on February 12, 2007, 01:25:14 pm

Yeah, Mickeyl has also given me a hint to try out BitBake to build tk/tcl because I do wanna build tk/tcl Angband for pdaXrom - Mickeyl says the binaries may be compatible, i guess because the *bands normally only requires ncurses (besides X11). I would also like to know if there is some demo/example/tutorial out there for newbies.

Also it still seems not very clear to me or i miss something: can i simply set up BB on an ordinary linux box instead of Z?

BTW, Storm: I've built several ports of crawls, hacks and *bands for pdaXrom. Wonder if they might run just fine also under OZ?

Title: Angband On Oz/collie?
Post by: lardman on February 20, 2007, 06:32:51 am

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Also it still seems not very clear to me or i miss something: can i simply set up BB on an ordinary linux box instead of Z?

Yes, on a normal desktop Linux machine.

It's a build tool that builds various things, including a cross-toolchain which it then uses to build the apps you want.


Si

Title: Angband On Oz/collie?
Post by: ZDevil on February 22, 2007, 02:39:35 am

Thanks, Landman. I will definitely give it a shot when I am really free to study it. Powerful as it seems to me,  still I expect a not-so-flat learning curve.

Title: Angband On Oz/collie?
Post by: lardman on February 22, 2007, 07:26:09 am

There are a fair few steps to set it up, but if you follow the instructions it will just work. The biggest issue I imagine you'll have is filling out your local.conf with the correct paths, and the correct distribution, etc. (not very hard

Learning to write a .bb file is a bit of extra work, but there are lots of examples, and we'll will be happy to talk you through it.


Si