Re: [Freemint-discuss] Installation path for shared libs

[Paul W. <pau...@gm...>]

All the ARAnyM setups I have used are usually with MiNT and (loosely) based
around the (now old) AFROS CD fs structure. Of all the setups I have used,
only one had SLB placed anywhere but C:/mint/slb, and that was the French
created OpenGL enable ARAnyM + MiNT. I believe that was more to do with the
fact that they also develop with LDG, so theres were in C:/gemsys/slb next
to C:/gemsys/ldg.

As far as I understand it, MagiC's use of C:/gemsys/magix/extension is more
to do with the fact that the above where not in use yet (LDG and MiNT +
SLB), so there really was not a need for them to be anywhere else.

Although I would like to use MagiC with my drive setups, it not going to
happen in the foreseeable future. But I do use them in various
combinations, and what I found was that certain versions of SLB wont run on
certain setups. So I maintain a C:/mint/slb with 68020-060 and
C:/gemsys/slb for anything else, incl. 68000 (which is usually the only
other ones needed), next to C:/gemsys/ldg

Mikro is right tho, apart from ARAnyM & other Emu setups, on real HW there
is not even a need for what I've maintained, unless you are sharing a CF
card across different architectures, even then C: boot and auto needs to be
different anyway.

I believe some magic extensions cant be loaded if they are not in the
mention folder, hardcoded in a loader somewhere, but I dont remember what.

If you use MiNT, and require some (old) TOS apps to work, SLB's need to be
on C:, so C:/mint/slb covers both. If you share the fs with 68000 (or not
MiNT), then C:/gemsys/slb is safe for them, and it should work with Musashi
loaded 68000 on CF/FireBee as well.

If you only use specific hardware, but swap between MiNT and TOS boots, I
would still place the HW specific versions in C:/gemsys/slb, and 68020-060
in C:/mint/slb, at least you can easily share them with others, knowing
what architecture they are.

My 2cents worth

Paul


On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 2:51 AM, Thorsten Otto <ad...@th...> wrote:

> On Sonntag, 5. August 2018 13:52:47 CEST Miro Kropáček wrote:
> > applications like "setup.app" from various software packages (aniplayer
> > comes to my mind) simply copy all *.slb into given directory.
>
> Yes, but having a to write a "setup.app" would be extra effort. Also i'm
> currently speaking about more standard libraries like zlib and pnglib that
> are
> not specific to a single application (i just wonder that apparently nobody
> has
> built such things yet).
>
> >To make this totally right I'd say FreeMiNT would need to look after
> >$SLBPATH/$CPU in addition to just $SLBPATH, very similar what
> mintloader.prg
> >does for freemint modules ($SYSDIR + $SYSDIR/<machine specific folder>).
>
> That would make sense. But of course that currently does not help much
> currently as long as this is not implemented.
>
>
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