BlockOut II port?

Hi,

could it be possible to port this:
BlockOut II? Don't have my A1 with me so I can't give it a try.

I spent many hours playing BlockOut in Amiga and PC long time ago

@emeck

I have successfully compiled it yesterday night (and stolen the port out of Spot's hands hehe - sorry mate ^^). There's still a problem with prefs file handling, hopefully I'll fix it this evening.

Varthall

@Varthall

@Varthall

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Wow! Excellent. I tried to compile it for Debian amd64 but couldn't. But it is better to have it for AOS4 now

Thanks for the port. And also to Spot, for looking at it.

@emeck

What errors did it give you under Linux?

Varthall

@Varthall

First, I changed the makefile to

SDL_ROOT = /usr


After lots of:

warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ?char*?

it ends with:

Utils.cpp
Utils.cpp:22:20: error: CImage.h: No such file or directory
Utils.cpp: In function ?int CreateTexture(int, int, char*, GLuint*)?:
Utils.cpp:223: error: ?CImage? was not declared in this scope
Utils.cpp:223: error: expected `;' before ?img?
Utils.cpp:225: error: ?img? was not declared in this scope
Utils.cpp:232: error: ?img? was not declared in this scope
Utils.cpp:240: error: ?img? was not declared in this scope
make: *** [Utils.o] Error 1



If I change the makefile also with

IMGLIB_ROOT = ../ImageLib/src

it ends with:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -limagelib
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [blockout] Error 1



emeck

@emeck

You have to compile the ImageLib library first, inside the /ImageLib/src/ directory.

Varthall

@Varthall

Got this errors compiling ImageLib:

gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o gif/gif.o gif/gif.c
g++ -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o CImage.o CImage.cpp
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/adler32.o png/zlib/adler32.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/compress.o png/zlib/compress.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/crc32.o png/zlib/crc32.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/deflate.o png/zlib/deflate.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/gzio.o png/zlib/gzio.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/infback.o png/zlib/infback.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/inffast.o png/zlib/inffast.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/inflate.o png/zlib/inflate.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/inftrees.o png/zlib/inftrees.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/trees.o png/zlib/trees.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/uncompr.o png/zlib/uncompr.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/zutil.o png/zlib/zutil.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/png/png.o png/png/png.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngerror.o png/png/pngerror.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux -c -I. -c -o png/png/pnggccrd.o png/png/pnggccrd.c
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:17: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:18: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:19: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:20: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pushf'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:21: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:24: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:25: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `popf'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:26: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pushf'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:27: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:28: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:29: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `popf'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:47: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:48: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
/tmp/ccbRnv8P.s:49: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
make: *** [png/png/pnggccrd.o] Error 1

@emeck

On your system, the sources assume that it supports x86 assembly code, which the x86_64 doesn't seem to like, and tries to assemble the asm version of the PNG library. Try changing inside the Makefile the lines

CXXFLAGS = -O2 -Dlinux -c -I.
CFLAGS = -O2 -Dlinux -c -I.

into

CXXFLAGS = -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I.
CFLAGS = -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I.

and recompile.

Varthall

@Varthall

Done. Now here is the new ouput:

gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o gif/gif.o gif/gif.c
g++ -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o CImage.o CImage.cpp
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/adler32.o png/zlib/adler32.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/compress.o png/zlib/compress.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/crc32.o png/zlib/crc32.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/deflate.o png/zlib/deflate.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/gzio.o png/zlib/gzio.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/infback.o png/zlib/infback.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/inffast.o png/zlib/inffast.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/inflate.o png/zlib/inflate.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/inftrees.o png/zlib/inftrees.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/trees.o png/zlib/trees.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/uncompr.o png/zlib/uncompr.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/zlib/zutil.o png/zlib/zutil.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/png.o png/png/png.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngerror.o png/png/pngerror.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pnggccrd.o png/png/pnggccrd.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngget.o png/png/pngget.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngmem.o png/png/pngmem.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngpread.o png/png/pngpread.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngread.o png/png/pngread.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngrio.o png/png/pngrio.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngrtran.o png/png/pngrtran.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngrutil.o png/png/pngrutil.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngset.o png/png/pngset.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngtrans.o png/png/pngtrans.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngvcrd.o png/png/pngvcrd.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngwio.o png/png/pngwio.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngwrite.o png/png/pngwrite.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngwtran.o png/png/pngwtran.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/png/pngwutil.o png/png/pngwutil.c
gcc -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o png/hpng.o png/hpng.c
g++ -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o jpg/H2v2.o jpg/H2v2.cpp
g++ -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o jpg/idct.o jpg/idct.cpp
g++ -O2 -Dlinux "-DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE" -c -I. -c -o jpg/jpegdecoder.o jpg/jpegdecoder.cpp
jpg/jpegdecoder.cpp: In member function ?void* jpeg_decoder::alloc(int)?:
jpg/jpegdecoder.cpp:109: error: cast from ?void*? to ?uint? loses precision
jpg/jpegdecoder.cpp: In member function ?void jpeg_decoder::init_frame()?:
jpg/jpegdecoder.cpp:1887: error: cast from ?uchar*? to ?uint? loses precision
jpg/jpegdecoder.cpp:1897: error: cast from ?void*? to ?uint? loses precision
make: *** [jpg/jpegdecoder.o] Error 1

@emeck

This is now getting off-topic, better to open a new thread in the "Free for all" forum. I'll check tonight for the new errors, while preparing the OS4 port.

Varthall

@Varthall

Done! There are 2 patches for Linux x64 in the BL2 forum. Now working here.

Looking forward to the AOS4 port. Thanks again

@emeck

Exactly 1 month after your last post :) It's now on os4depot's upload queue, it should be published soon.

@Varthall

http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... game/puzzle/blockout2.lha

nice!

@Varthall

I just saw it! And downloaded. Thank you very much for this port.

I think I have an old msdos version in some CD with my scores still there. Time to look for it and see if I can get near my top one.

@emeck

How about writing a review of it? :)

-> http://www.amigans.net/modules/AMS/

@orgin

Well, let me see if I can put together something coherent But my review would be with the Linux version 'cause I'm far away from my Amigas right now.

@Varthall

Are the dates in the top scores screen shown correctly in your port?

@emeck

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From what I remember now, yes, they should be correct. That bug appeared in the x86_64 port isn't it? Might be that the sources I have downloaded were already fixed, or in alternative the bug only shows up on that platform. BTW let me know if you find any problem, e.g. only now I have realised that I haven't tried the hiscores upload... or maybe it is disabled, I have read that the upload part is closed source.

BTW I'm registering on the BlockOut forums to announce the release.

@Varthall

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Yes, I had it in my amd64 port. But it doesn't bother me, it is just untill I can use your port for AOS4.


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That will be an unexpected surprise

@emeck

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Indeed, they seem to be happy about it :)

BlockOut 2 forum

Varthall