Re: [Rpcemu] Linus for RPCemu, was Re: rpcemu for Linux

> On 15 Mar 2018, at 9:19 am, Richard Walker <richardwalker@letterboxes.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2018, at 22:53, tim@powys.org wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone direct me to a version of Linux that will, at least, run the
>> new test version of RPCemu on a Mac? Please.
>
> Some time ago, I used Virtual Box on my Mac so I could run Linux.
> Easy-peasy - it all 'just worked'.
>
> If I were you, I'd get Virtual Box for Mac OS X from:
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>
> and then pick a pre-built VM from here:
> https://virtualboxes.org/images/
>
> I think I used Ubuntu at the time, but presumably anything reasonably
> popular should work for RPCEmu.

Many thanks for all the above. I have now got Ubuntu 17.10 going under VirtualBox on my Mac. The only serious problem was choosing the right networking option on VirtualBox: it needed to be Bridged Adaptor.

After several re-readings of "How to compile from source - Linux" at <https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/testing/linuxcompile.html> I have managed to compile rpcemu. (Incredible, at various stages I thought I would never get that far!)

The final stage is to download a ROM and put it in the directory <rpcemu-0.8.102> but that will take me a little more time so thought I had better stop and say many thanks for helping me get this far. I'm going for 5.22 so that I have a backup machine for my ARMX6. If all goes well, I will be able to abandon VRPC which is taking up an enormous amount of precious space on my SSD on the Mac; rpc-emu's environment is on a USB linked disk that is four times slower than the SSD but faster than any other disc I have plugged into the Mac.

regards,

Tim

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Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org
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