Re: [Torcs-users] Error compiling torcs 1.3.7 in ubuntu 18.04

[João A. <j.a...@ua...>]

Thanks that was very usefull.

Along with the following thread i was able to finish installing torcs.

https://sourceforge.net/p/torcs/mailman/message/35831161/


Bye, Joao Aniceto

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De: David Savinkoff <dsa...@te...>
Enviado: 11 de dezembro de 2018 03:57:08
Para: João Aniceto
Cc: tor...@li...
Assunto: Re: [Torcs-users] Error compiling torcs 1.3.7 in ubuntu 18.04

----- On Dec 5, 2018, at 2:29 PM, João Aniceto wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Im having a problem in compiling TORCS 1.3.7, using a 64 bit ubuntu 18.04 .
>
> The error is the following :
>
> OpenALMusicPlayer.cpp: In member function ‘virtual bool
> OpenALMusicPlayer::streamBuffer(ALuint)’:
> OpenALMusicPlayer.cpp:164:22: error: invalid conversion from ‘char’ to ‘const
> char*’ [-fpermissive]
> const char* error = '\0';
> ^~~~

The solution is to change '\0' to ""
in
torcs-1.3.7src/libs/musicplayer/OpenALMusicPlayer.cpp
then compile.
Hopefully the next version of torcs will have this fixed.

Don't install the torcs source code into /usr/src
Don't compile as root.
Don't install torcs binary into the system.
(no need for root privileges)
Do use your home directory eg. /home/user/torcs-1.3.7
Furthermore, you should install the application to your home directory,
that way you can develop, compile, install and execute torcs in your
home directory. See TorcsNotes.txt

I hope that some day OpenALMusicPlayer and its dependencies
could be avoided with a compile switch.

Sincerely, David