Making WarZone 2100 ..

I know i'm a bit crazy but as my first project (very first in my life except the AmiArcadia compile) i've decide to (try) port WarZone 2100 on OS4

This game:

http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Warzone%202100

Thanks to the very userfull SpotUp guide i've already setup a proper SDK with all WarZone deps, next step was installing ABC-Shell and then create a project starting from the original configure file (as guide explain)

This is my current output of shell:

Processo: Shell 7
7.AmigaOS4:> Work:SDK/Progetti/warzone2100-2.3.4/
7.Work:SDK/Progetti/warzone2100-2.3.4> sh
/Work/SDK/Progetti/warzone2100-2.3.4> ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --bindir=/SDK/Local/C --prefix=/SDK/Local --libdir=/SDK/Local/newlib/lib LIBS="-lauto -lunix"
configure: creating cache /dev/null
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether /SDK/C/gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking build system type... powerpc-unknown-amigaos
checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-amigaos
checking for style of include used by /SDK/C/gmake... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) -std=gnu99
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... byacc
configure: error: Bison is not installed
/Work/SDK/Progetti/warzone2100-2.3.4>

As you can see I need Bison too but i've not found it on OS4Depot/Aminet so i desperately looking for it, is there any link when i can download an OS4 version ?

BTW, from now i'm going to the right way ?
Are that the correct step to begin a port from scratch ?

Maybe i would need a lot of help i know, this is my first project at all (experience = 0) so don't expect too mutch, i'm near zero also in C programming aniway

@samo79

good luck. :)

on Aminet is a 68k version , maybe this helps a little....
http://aminet.net/package/dev/gg/bison-2.3-src-bin-m68k

@netrot

Thanks, surely I need a lot ...

About Bison 68k i'm not sure about it, before try such version i prefer to wait a bit more for suggestions

@samo79

I'm currently trying to see if I can build bison 2.4.3 easily on my SAM440. If I manage this I will upload the binary and post a link so you can try it.

@samo79

Good!! Looks really cool! We need that game

@salass00

Cool, your support is very very welcome, thanks

@Joeled?

Hehe i will try, but don't count of me at 100%

@samo79

Warzone are pretty nice to have, but that is the last comment which i read about that game "Depends of X11 and Motif crap :(" (that mean, that again it will use some x11/motif crap fucntions). And authors answer: "Well, it uses OpenGL, so you need X. Motif should only be used if detected by the configure script."

I do not see the logic here (about if you use opengl, then you need X, pretty strange). But let's hope that i am wrong, or maybe someone in that question/answer do not understand something.

Anyway, try it plz, and post any problems which you will have here.

@kas1e

Mmm don't know but there are no mention of it, about deps tech page say:

sdl >= 1.2.10
opengl >= 1.1
openal >= 1.1
libogg >= 1.1
libvorbis >= 1.1
libtheora >= 1.0
libpng >= 1.2
physfs >= 1.0

But we'll see ...

@samo79

Yep, usually authors not write about Xwindow only support (dunno why), but lets see. Maybe it can be skipped somehow, or not so many X fucntions are used (which we can re-change on SDL ones for example)

@kas1e

That's ok but i'm not able to do this alone, eventually i need an help for this :-/

@samo79

way to go! I love RTS games and we need it on AOS4.1 for sure

@samo79
Did you already setup bison and alt ? (for make configure script working after) ?

@kas1e

there is a morphos port of warzone since long.

@kas1e

Not yet, i'm waiting a Bison compile from salass00, then when (and if) he able to release I can continue ...

@SpotUP

That's true, it is a Fab port

http://fabportnawak.free.fr/misc/warzone2100-2.0.8_rc1.lha

Source are not inside but almost now we are sure that we can port this game on Amiga

@samo79

to build warzone you also need a newer version of flex than we have.

@spotUP,saimo79
Right! Maybe it was an older version .. Anyway, need to try it of course.

@samo79

Unfortunately compiling bison is not as easy as I had hoped. For some reason it tries to replace a lot of clib functions with its own ones and this is causing lots of problems as they are defined slightly differently in the clib includes and in bison source code.

@samo79

Cheer up! Samir, and if you need PNG icons or the spanish translation, I'm here.

@spotUP

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Ah ok, i have missed this

@kas1e

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@salass00

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Mmm on Aminet there is the 68k source, did you try it ?

http://aminet.net/package/dev/gg/bison-2.3-src-bin-m68k

There is also a MOS src somewhere ...

@Templario

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Thanks mate, i'll send you the first beta/alpha when/if i'm able to compile somethings decent

@samo79

Perhaps that maybe of some use

http://www.amigans.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=816

SpotUp's Dummy Guide to porting