Re: [Exult-general] Compiling Exult CVS on Windows

[<da...@ze...>]

Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote:

> Coder Infidel wrote:
> >
> > >Can anyone offer instructions to configure/make exult CVS on Windows
> > >9x/2000
> > >using cygwin/mingw ?
> > >I have Cygwin 1.10 and Mingw32 but I have no idea how to get this to work
> > >since it doesn't include a configure or make files.
> >
> > You should use Mingw32 but Cygwin would probably work too.
> > I have basically done this:
> >
> > 1. Download SDL from
> <SNIP>
>
> Thanks!
>
> > I got it to work but I have a few questions:
> > - Are the files imagetxt.cc and text.cc ever needed?
>
> No, they're left over from the time Exult still used Freetype. (A
> truetype renderer)
>
> > - Why are there duplicates of Flex.cc/IFF.cc/Table.cc in the 'audio' and
> > 'files' subdirectories? It seems that only the copies in the 'files' dir are
> > used.
>
> You're right. The copies in the audio directory are from before the
> unified file API.
>
> > - Why are there duplicates of Flex.h/etc in these directories too?
> > files/Flex.h is used to compile libu7file.a and audio/Flex.h is used to
> > compile libaudio.a??
>
> See above. I think the copies in audio/ can be safely removed. (Right?)
> The fact that different includes are used should definitely be fixed.
>
> > - I believe music eggs in the game can be either "continuous" or
> > "once-only", but not "twice", etc. Why does the MIDI code disagree?
>
> Really? That would make it trivial to implement repeats in Windows too!
> (MCI has a 'repeat' modifier) How exactly do I interpret the 'repeats'
> value? 1 = once, anything else = infinitely ?

In Audio.cc, I set repeats=-2 to mean 'loop forever'.

The technical information (u7tech) suggested that there were several
possibilities for repeats (none, some, or loop forever). It _has_ been
demonstrated to be wrong in some respects of course.

D