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Mentore:
Hello all,
I'm having a real PITA trying to port DosBox-x under OS/2 with the latest tool (Gcc 9.2.0, the rest is up-to-date with ANPM netlabs repo).

I've issued the usual autoreconf and given a detailed configure script call with these options

./configure --prefix=/DosBox-x --enable-sdl2 --enable-force-menu-sdldraw --disable-sdlnet --disable-opengl --disable-alsatest --disable-alsa-midi --disable-libslirp --disable-x11

But then I notice that the created makefile contains a lot of calls to am<things> (which should be autotools) and starts configuring again, everytime restarting all the process with these starting lines

CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.};" && cd . && /usr/bin/sh D:/Sviluppo/Sorgenti/dbox/dosb
ox/missing aclocal-1.16
 cd . && /usr/bin/sh D:/Sviluppo/Sorgenti/dbox/dosbox/missing automake-1.16 --fo
reign
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.};" && cd . && /usr/bin/sh D:/Sviluppo/Sorgenti/dbox/dosb
ox/missing autoconf
/usr/bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
running CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/bin/sh /usr/bin/sh ./configure --prefix=/DosBox-x --en
able-sdl2 --enable-force-menu-sdldraw --disable-sdlnet --disable-opengl --disabl
e-alsatest --disable-alsa-midi --disable-libslirp --disable-x11 CC=gcc.exe CFLAG
S=-O2 -g -DOS2 LDFLAGS=-Zomf -Zhigh-mem -Zmap -Zbin-files -Zargs-wild -Zargs-res
p LIBS=-lcx CPP=/usr/bin/cpp.exe CXX=gcc.exe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -DOS2 --no-create -
-no-recursion

What puzzles me is the continue reference (in bold) to config.status --recheck which starts again the configuration process. I'm searching in forums and other places but without any hint. I also tried to remove and force --recheck to disappear from the config* files and the created makefiles but without any result - it still keeps regenerating files which loops indefinitely.
Even trying to use bash instead of sh changes nothing.

I really can't understand what the problem may be - I remember in the past I got stuck on a similar issue with another project, but solved it modifying an already available makefile. Can't get a grip on this.

Mentore

Dave Yeo:
Better to edit configure.ac, about line 368 and remove the CXXFLAGS line, the -Zmt on the LDFLAGS line and add -Zomf -Zhigh-mem -Zbin-files there. There's also a hard dependency on sdl-net in configure.ac you might want to comment out.
Then run "bash autogen.sh" rather then sh autoreconf then try configure.
There's other emxism's in the source to watch out for as you go.

Mentore:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on November 05, 2024, 05:07:47 pm ---Better to edit configure.ac, about line 368 and remove the CXXFLAGS line, the -Zmt on the LDFLAGS line and add -Zomf -Zhigh-mem -Zbin-files there. There's also a hard dependency on sdl-net in configure.ac you might want to comment out.
Then run "bash autogen.sh" rather then sh autoreconf then try configure.
There's other emxism's in the source to watch out for as you go.

--- End quote ---

You're a wonderful source of information, Dave.
On a side note - I've ported RetroArch (!!!) and it's basically working. Have to include network support (it seems heavily bound to IPv6, though) and Qt tools (already started, but there are some differences in the needed files which I didn't understand).

But - it - WORKS.

Mentore

Mentore:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on November 05, 2024, 05:07:47 pm ---Better to edit configure.ac, about line 368 and remove the CXXFLAGS line, the -Zmt on the LDFLAGS line and add -Zomf -Zhigh-mem -Zbin-files there. There's also a hard dependency on sdl-net in configure.ac you might want to comment out.
Then run "bash autogen.sh" rather then sh autoreconf then try configure.
There's other emxism's in the source to watch out for as you go.

--- End quote ---

OK, tried to modify it and no - still loops; make keeps calling configure. I'll have to delve deeper into this.
Mentore

Dave Yeo:
I usually start with simple configure arguments, in this case,

--- Code: -----prefix=/dosbox-x  --enable-sdl2  LDFLAGS="-Zomf -Zhigh-mem -lcx"

--- End code ---

The -lcx is optional at this time.
The configure script does a good job of figuring out the environment and finishes. Often I do have to add more configure options but not here, at least yet.
Make fails in src/dos/dos_programs.c with a bunch of errors. I worked on this a bit a few weeks back and decided I didn't really have the skills to fix. There's old OS/2 code that needs sorting as some is EMXism's and other fixes needed.

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