Re: [Rpcemu] Allegro not installed Mint 17

Hi,

I don't know if this will help you,  but I recently tried to do the same and I recollect very similar errors even though I knew the allegro libraries were installed. The fix in the end was to install the build-essential package which for some reason doesn't seem to be included in the Mint 17 distro (well not in mine anyway).

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential

In my efforts to get the compilation to work previously, I had been trying all sorts of commands (aclocal etc.) and I was concerned that I might have corrupted the download of rpcemu. So to be on the safe side, I threw away my old copy, downloaded a clean tar.gz from www.marutan.net, and unzipped it, so that I knew I had a copy as the distributors intended it to be.

Once I'd done that I just configured the package and compile/linked it using simply:

./configure  --enable-dynarec
make

And it worked without a problem.

Hope that helps

Cheers

Tony

On 02/10/14 20:00, rpcemu-request@riscos.info wrote:

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Ignoring the unnecessary steps.  

pittdj@pittdj-VirtualBox ~/rpcemu3/src $ ./configure -enable--dynarec  pittdj@pittdj-VirtualBox ~/rpcemu3/src $ make  

Build completes.  

  Not here it doesn't, that's what I first tried on my newly minted Mint.   Here's what I got:    ./configure: line 4634: syntax error near unexpected token `,'  ./configure: line 4634: `   AM_PATH_ALLEGRO(, , as_fn_error $? "building   RPCemu requires Allegro to be installed" "$LINENO" 5)'    So I tried the lengthier, "largely deprecated",  instructions at   www.riscos.info/index.php/RPCEmu_Linux_Guide and I got the same error as   you at the same point:    macro 'AM_PATH_ALLEGRO' not found in library    I googled that, as a result I moved allegro.m4 and there was more   progress - make started well, but then exited as belowr:    /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0: error adding symbols: DSO missing   from command line    This had happened exactly the same on Mint 16 so I went to the solution   for that (thank you Kai), which you see below and which was successful.    With the benefit of hindsight it seems that I've gone the long way round   and that if I went back, copied allegro.m4 to the alternate location and   then followed the simple two step process all would have been well, but   had I not gone the long way round I wouldn't have had the error to   google which fixed it for me.    It is odd that even on a fresh install of the same OS there are   differences which makes what works for one installation fail for   another, maybe it is in some way related to hardware? - the DSO missing   error, which is relatively common according to google, occurred when   trying to compile RPCEmu on both my installs of Mint (on the same   laptop) but not on yours - or most other folks', it seems.    As far as I'm concerned, all's well that ends well and it's even better   if I've learned a little in the process.    Sean.    On 01/10/14 19:14, David Pitt wrote:  

Sean Kelly, on 1 Oct, wrote:    [snip]  

4. Opened a terminal and issued the following commands - I know these  shouldn't all be required, but it's what worked for me, eventually, as  neither the deprecated nor the latest instructions on marutan.net worked.  I'm thinking make clean won't be required for you, since it will all  hopefully work first time.    cd rpcemu/src/  aclocal  automake  autoconf  make clean  LIBS="-lm -lpthread" ./configure --enable-dynarec  make  

Being unable to understand why I can build rpcemu on Mint 17 without the  slightest bother, whereas others are not so lucky I gave the above a try  with a newly unzipped source on a Mint 17 that already has a successfully  built rpcemu on it, that is the dependencies are already present and  correct. I did not get very far!    pittdj@pittdj-VirtualBox ~ $ cd rpcemu2/src  pittdj@pittdj-VirtualBox ~/rpcemu2/src $ aclocal  configure.ac:96: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_ALLEGRO' not found in library  pittdj@pittdj-VirtualBox ~/rpcemu2/src $      Take 3.    Ignoring the unnecessary steps.    pittdj@pittdj-VirtualBox ~/rpcemu3/src $ ./configure -enable--dynarec  pittdj@pittdj-VirtualBox ~/rpcemu3/src $ make    Build completes.    See http://marutan.net/rpcemuspoon/linuxcompile.html