OpenTTD ported to SkyOS (native port)

Youlle · Post by **Youlle** » 06 Jun 2004 11:38

fairly new? lol its been around since 1997, making it 7yrs old

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 06 Jun 2004 15:32

Zahl wrote:Wow, SkyOS looks really nice, I'll give it a try asap

Windows looks good, but it doesn't mean that it is good

CobraA1 · Post by **CobraA1** » 07 Jun 2004 06:59

Windows looks good, but it doesn't mean that it is good

LOL, good point. But considering it's got journalling, memory protection, etc, it should be somewhat stable. I hope . . .

Zahl · Post by **Zahl** » 08 Jun 2004 12:11

ChrisCF wrote:Windows looks good, but it doesn't mean that it is good

Narf! Taking me by the word...

Of course I read the skyos homepage too

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 10 Jun 2004 22:54

I wonder why I have not got a single file for the SkyOS port yet

Oh well, it's not my OS, who misses this great game, so I'm not in a hurry

MYOB · Post by **MYOB** » 05 Jul 2004 22:05

Bjarni - patches incoming to your SF mail addy

MYOB · Post by **MYOB** » 05 Jul 2004 22:16

MYOB wrote:Bjarni - patches incoming to your SF mail addy

Correction, your DTU addy, the SF one bounced me

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 05 Jul 2004 23:19

weird. My email works fine

what's even more weird is the SkyOS port. it have to be made way better to be added to svn. I would like it to fit in the current makefile instead of creating a new one

mapfile should be placed in os/skyos instead of the root

I think it will be nice to support SkyOS, but not at the cost of the readability of the source tree

MYOB · Post by **MYOB** » 05 Jul 2004 23:51

I think mapfile is dynamically generated

I also think their build system is completely wacky and can't use standard makefiles...

However, as I turned down the chance to do driver development for them (I was actually mailed about it, weird...), I didn't get a copy of the 5.0 betas so I'm not sure

I meant SF bounced me as the attachment was > 1MB

Youlle · Post by **Youlle** » 06 Jul 2004 21:51

the build system is Cygwin, by map file im assuming you mean makefile this is written by hand by robert as no auto-make exists on skyOS and cygwin's auto-make doesnt support skyOS.

Youlle · Post by **Youlle** » 06 Jul 2004 21:52

also its a completely native port it uses SkyGI, its not a SDL port

MYOB · Post by **MYOB** » 06 Jul 2004 22:33

mapfile != makefile

I think the mapfile is the same as the .xSYM file on PowerPC BeOS - used for debugging purposes only.

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 06 Jul 2004 23:22

there are no autoconfiguration in OTTD. It's a makefile written by hand and *should* be able to handle SkyOS too if the correct few lines are added

as for SDL/native graphics, that's one of the things that should be included in the makefile

also this conversion is done against a very old version of OTTD

MYOB · Post by **MYOB** » 07 Jul 2004 01:39

Dump the makefile.sky in os/skyos, and try to check in what you can of the changes maybe? The mapfile is almost certaiinly generated on build, its a symbols reference.

It'd get the code into the SVN and dealt with - I also think that we're not going to get much demand for binaries for SkyOS, as they'll probably provide them built with the OS

Youlle · Post by **Youlle** » 07 Jul 2004 11:24

i think only the binaries at time of release will be included i dont think any updates will be provide by skyOS apart from maybe with incremental updates 5.1, 5.2, etc

Youlle · Post by **Youlle** » 07 Jul 2004 14:50

by symbol's reference you mean:

Code: Select all

OUTPUT_FORMAT = PE
include ../rules.mak

OutputFile  = $(dir_system)/myapp.app
OutputFiles  = main.o

$(OutputFile) : $(OutputFiles) $(SHARED_GUILIBS)
	$(ld) $(LD_FLAGS) $(OutputFiles) $(SHARED_GUILIBS) -o $(OutputFile)

those symbol references point to entries in Rules.mak which is the make rules for skyOS software.

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 07 Jul 2004 15:24

Youlle wrote:i think only the binaries at time of release will be included i dont think any updates will be provide by skyOS apart from maybe with incremental updates 5.1, 5.2, etc

that means we really should add this to svn so the users can compile it themselves

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 07 Jul 2004 15:55

I think I will try to add support for SkyOS, but I need help from somebody, who knows the system/have the system to test on

I need a way to identify if it's SkyOS. Can somebody find a way to do that. I think it can be done with
uname
uname -s
vendor ....
I just needs one of them and the output

One thing is for sure. I will add it so it will not affect other OSes so it can't break anything while trying

Youlle · Post by **Youlle** » 07 Jul 2004 16:28

robert and chris (centimetre) are the ppl hu know the skyGI API the Best you'd better asking them via email.

MYOB · Post by **MYOB** » 07 Jul 2004 16:55

Youlle wrote:robert and chris (centimetre) are the ppl hu know the skyGI API the Best you'd better asking them via email.

This isn't the API, this is a shell app we're talking about

If you're in SkyOS now, could you type "uname" at the CLI and tell us what it spits out, if anything

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