FreeOrion

The compile error I was getting was due to an incorrect Dev-C++ upgrade. Basically, the Dev-C++ uninstall doesn't work as it leaves a cfg and an ini file that must be manually deleted prior to installing a newer version.

I have now finally got Dev-C++ to begin compiling the server.dev =) Unfortunately now I get an error when it gets to ServerNetworkCore.h This error occurs at line 11:

11 E:\Programming\FreeOrion\FreeOrion\network\ServerNetworkCore.h
In file included from ../network/ServerNetworkCore.h

Line 11 of the code is:

#include "NetworkCore.h"

Does this mean it can't find the file NetworkCore.h ? If so this is strange as I can manually locate the file, it is in the following dir:

FreeOrion\Network

This is where it is supposed to be is it not?

Thanks in advance for any help....

Sith

[EDIT] I noticed there is an error on line 15 as reported by the little window at the bottom of Dev-C++:

15 E:\Programming\FreeOrion\FreeOrion\network\NetworkCore.h
SDL.h: No such file or directory.

That would tally with the NetworkCore.h file not being found. However there is no code at line 15 of the ServerNetworkCore.h

Very strange

[EDIT2] Ok I think I've found the cause: the networkcore.h file is there but in that header file on line 15 it refers to SDL.h. Now I searched for this file and it is in my DevCpp\Include\SDL dir. I copied this file there as per the readme in the WindowsKit.zip. Any1 know why DevCpp is failing to find it?

[EDIT3] It is failing to find it because the dir name for DevCpp is hardcoded into the dev files :/ It says in the WindowsKit readme that DevCpp can be installed anywhere and under any name. For other new people please make sure it is installed in C:\Dev-Cpp otherwise nothing will compile.

My new problem is that the zlib.h file contains a reference to a zconf.h file. This file is not included in the FreeOrion checkout or the WindowsKit. Any know where I can get it to compile the server.dev?

Thanks.

I did a google search on the missing file and located the project website:

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

Download the source code and you'll find the missing file there. Just copy it into the Dev-Cpp\Include dir and you're sorted.

I finally got the HumanClient.dev to compile I am so happy =D Unfortunately on clicking the single player game I get the following windows popup message:

freeorion.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

That should be a problem with the program and not a problem with the Dev-C++ compilation process so I'm content that everything is working on my end.

I'm off to get the other two dev's to compile and test 'em then I'm going to start picking through everything to get an overview of how it all fits together. Who knows maybe I'll even start to contribute s'thing

Sith

Hi !

I just downloaded everything needed to compile freeorion, got over some basic problems without help, but now i am a bit confused with the following problem:

Everthing compiles fine, the *.o files are all created e.g. for server 27 !

but in the last step the linker tells me unknown command or filename:

the exact message is ( first the last sucessful compilation )
...

g++.exe -D__DEBUG__ -c ../util/AppInterface.cpp -o ../objs/server/AppInterface.o -I"C:/DEV-CPP/include/c++" -I"C:/DEV-CPP/include/c++/mingw32" -I"C:/DEV-CPP/include/c++/backward" -I"C:/DEV-CPP/include" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/SDL" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/mingw32" -I"C:/boost-1.30.2" -I"C:/Expat-1.95.5/Source/lib" -I"C:/log4cpp-0.2.7/include" -I"../GG/include" -I"../GG/include/net" -I"../GG/include/dialogs" -DLOG4CPP_FIX_ERROR_COLLISION=1 -DFREEORION_WIN32 -DFREEORION_BUILD_SERVER -g3

g++.exe -D__DEBUG__ ../objs/server/dmain.o ../objs/server/ServerApp.o ../objs/server/Message.o ../objs/server/NetworkCore.o ../objs/server/ServerNetworkCore.o ../objs/server/XDiff.o ../objs/server/XHash.o ../objs/server/XLut.o ../objs/server/XParser.o ../objs/server/XTree.o ../objs/server/Process.o ../objs/server/Order.o ../objs/server/OrderSet.o ../objs/server/UniverseObject.o ../objs/server/System.o ../objs/server/Planet.o ../objs/server/PopCenter.o ../objs/server/ProdCenter.o ../objs/server/Ship.o ../objs/server/Fleet.o ../objs/server/Empire.o ../objs/server/EmpireManager.o ../objs/server/ServerEmpireManager.o ../objs/server/TechLevel.o ../objs/server/TechManager.o ../objs/server/Universe.o ../objs/server/AppInterface.o -o "..\freeoriond.exe" -L"C:/DEV-CPP/lib" -L"C:/Expat-1.95.5/StaticLibs" -lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL -lwsock32 -lboost_signals -lexpat -llog4cpp -lz ../GiGi.dll ../GiGiNet.dll ../GiGiSDL.dll

Befehl oder Dateiname nicht gefunden.

Execution terminated
Compilation successful


Anybody an idea ???

Thanx Stefan

1) What does "server 27" mean?

2) I can't read the "error" message; it's in German.

3) It looks like it compiled successfully. What is the problem, exactly?

Sorry

1. Server 27 means in the context of its sentence that for the freeoriond.exe there are 27 object files created and these exist in the /objs/server directory.

2. Befehl oder Dateiname nicht gefunden.
Translates directly to: Command or Filename not found.
In english versions this might differ somewhat ...

I think its an error message from windows.
Maybe its a problem of WindowsME because the command line for
the linking is too long ???

3. Yes it compiled everything, but it does not link the object files together and build the freeoriond.exe file

Hi all,

I'd like to ask what is current procedures for working on the code. Can I start changing/building anything or are there some guidelines? Do we have a bugzilla or similar envirorment working? Is there any place I can help?

Thanks,

Gustavo

Send out an email on the freeorion-programmers mailing list (sign up if you haven't already) telling us all briefly what you are working on. Then feel free to work on it and commit your changes. You absolutely must be sure that what you have committed is stable and works, so that it doesn't confuse other programmers.

Once you have committed to the CVS, you are required to add an entry to the CVS Commit Info thread in the programming forum, following the format for all previous entries.

Following these two steps gives us all a good idea what you are working on, and keeps us all involved.

If I've missed anything, I'm sure tzlaine will let you know.

During a compile I get...

<snip>
if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/GG -I/usr/local/include/GG/dialogs -I/usr/local/include/GG/SDL -I/usr/local/include/GG -I/usr/local/include/GG/dialogs -I/usr/local/include/GG/net -I/usr/local/include/GG/net -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -DFREEORION_BUILD_HUMAN -DFREEORION_LINUX -g3 -Wall -MT PopCenter.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/PopCenter.Tpo" \
-c -o PopCenter.o `test -f '../../universe/PopCenter.cpp' || echo './'`../../universe/PopCenter.cpp; \
then mv -f ".deps/PopCenter.Tpo" ".deps/PopCenter.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/PopCenter.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../../UI/libFOui-human.a', needed by `freeorion.exe'. Stop.
</snip>

Any ideas? Attempting to compile on Debian Sid.

Are you using ./configure and make?

If so, I recommend you don't. Get a fresh checkout of the cvs and go into server/ client/human/ and client/AI/ and do a "make" in each of those. The configure scripts aren't working perfect yet, and this is the easiest way to get it to compile.

Is there an way to start the game without any AI oponents for debugging purposes?

Yes. Start a multiplayer game with two human players.

Hi all,

as all people asking here for tips on how to compile free orion I want to do that, too.
Ok, I'm using gcc version 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1) configure runs through but compiling not:

if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/GG -I/usr/include/GG/net -I/usr/include/GG/SDL -I/usr/include/zlib -I/usr/include/SDL -Dmain=SDL_main -I/usr/include/freetype2 -DFREEORION_WIN32 -g3 -Wall -MT NetworkCore.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/NetworkCore.Tpo" \
-c -o NetworkCore.o `test -f '../network/NetworkCore.cpp' || echo './'`../network/NetworkCore.cpp; \
then mv ".deps/NetworkCore.Tpo" ".deps/NetworkCore.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/NetworkCore.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
../network/NetworkCore.cpp:41: no `void NetworkCore::SendMessageA(const
Message&, int, const std::string&) const' member function declared in class
`NetworkCore'
../network/NetworkCore.cpp: In member function `void
NetworkCore::ReceiveData(int, std::string&, const std::string&)':
../network/NetworkCore.cpp:153: cannot convert `Message' to `const MSG*' for
argument `1' to `LONG DispatchMessageA(const MSG*)'
make[2]: *** [NetworkCore.o] Error 1

This seems not to be an plattform specific error... maybe the last one, but I cannot fix them. My NetworkCore.cpp has 92 lines so how could there be a line 153? And why whant the compiler NetworkCore::SendMessageA? there is only a function NetworkCore::SendMessage, or not?

And I had had to modify util/Process.h In Win32 it uses STARTUPINFO and PROCESS_INFORMATION which are windows types... but there is nowhere an include of these windows types. Maybe i crashed my installtion of... yeah of what? to fix this I added

right after


I hope this has nothing to do with the error in NetworkCore.

so far, blackdrag

Hi everbody.

Another new programmer here, downloaded and installed all the required tools/libraries and got the code out of CVS (on Nov 10 i believe) and I got everything compiling and working.

Noticed it was crashing on me sometimes so I thought I'd check it out as bug hunting is sometimes a good way to get your feet wet, but I'm having trouble getting the debugger to work. When I launch in "debug" mode I see the exe is launched (in TaskManager) and pretty much nothing happens at all. When I run gdb.exe from the command line I get the following


I noticed one or two others had similiar problems but I didn't see any posts about solutions they may have found. Thanks in advance for any information!

PotatoKing

PS: Running WinXP, P4 2.8 gighz, 512 megs DDR, geforce 4400

Bug hunting is good, but at the moment there are a few major bugs being fixed so would be better to wait until they are resolved. While it's in such an early development, there's many bugs we're already aware of.

Hi,

i'm new to this forum.

I'm trying to make myself familiar with this project. I already got all the
sources and everything works well (besides zconf.h was missing in
WindowsKit::copy-to-Dev-Cpp/include).

While clicking around i stumbled over a bug (or todo) in
FleetDetailPanel::ShipDroppedIntoList where m_create_new_fleet_sig
(ship_id) causes a crash. This occures when dropping a ship into a
window created via new fleet button.

My question is, how can i debug on WinXP. If i hit debug, gdb and
freeorion are loaded but nothing happens. I read the post above pointing
to the same problem, but without a proper answer.

Thx, Ronald.


PS: Meanwhile i checked gdb 5.2.1 and 6.0. Both give me a
segmentation fault. Any suggestions?

insight5_win32 doesn't work.