Re: [Plib-users] joystick library

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

McCracken Ryan wrote:

> OK, running Windows '98 (try not to hate me too much
> for doing this).

I'm *trying*...but it's not going to be easy.

> I installed Cygwin and it seems to
> work quite well.

You have Cygwin - well, that's improved your
credibility *slightly*. :-)

> I downloaded the plib stuff (1.3.1).
> I did what the readme told me to:
> 
>   ./configure
>   make
>   make install

Excellent.
 
> OK, so now I have the example js_demo.cxx file in
> /usr/local/plib_examples-1.3.1/src/js
> 
> In this directory there is also a file called
> 'js_demo.exe'. So I type './js_demo', and -Eureka!- it
> works for both of my controllers.

Woohoo!
 
> But now I decide to try running some of my own stuff.
> There is a problem at the point at which the statement
> js[0]->notWorking () appears. This statement returns a
> value of 1 (not working).

Not good.
 
> I attached the js_demo.cxx code for ease of viewing.
> 
> I figured I might try running js_demo.cxx on my own to
> see if it was my code. So I type this:
> 
> g++ js_demo.cxx
>
> The executable appears by default in a.exe. I run it
> and the controllers still don't work. So if the code
> that created js_demo.exe is js_demo.cxx, is there some
> sort of option that I'm missing to get an executable
> that works like the js_demo.exe? Or is the problem
> more serious/complicated?

Hmmm - I'm a little suprised that something as simple
as:

g++ js_demo.cxx

...would compile correctly - but since the JS stuff is just
a single header file - I suppose it could work.

However, the PLIB distro doesn't come with binaries or
executables of any kind - so js_demo.cxx *did* compile on
your setup...but with a different compile line.

I suggest you 'touch js_demo.cxx' - to change the date on it,
then re-run the 'make' for the top level 'examples' directory.

That should cause it to recompile js_demo.exe - and (importantly),
you'll see what commands it used to compile it.  I can't predict
what those will need to be because the 'configure' script generates
the Makefile's specifically to suit your machine's setup.

I'm guessing that there should be something like "-DCYGWIN=1" on the
compile command line.  Without that, it's probably compiling the set of
commands that would work under Linux rather than the ones for Windoze/Cygwin.
However, I havn't used Windoze for over 10 years...so my advice may
be worth nothing!

Perhaps someone on this list who uses CygWin will be able to offer
more help.

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