Compiling FS-UAE

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Mark on 2015-07-22 at 12:13 said:

Hi, Is there a pre built version of fs-uae for osx 10.5.8 (PPC)?

I’m really not comfortable building the source tbh. I would really appreciate your help.

Thanks

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- FrodeSolheim on 2015-08-04 at 00:46 said:
  
  Hi, I do not provide official support for either 10.5 or PPC. But tlosm provides unofficial 10.5 PPC builds of FS-UAE: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=74649 (go to the last page for the latest version)
  
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Aron Bott on 2015-05-13 at 04:13 said:

I’m having issues compiling under Debian 8 on a G4 Mac Mini. I don’t have the exact error handy but it’s something to do with libmpeg2arch? I have the libmpeg2 libraries installed. Otherwise for the life of me I can’t get it to run (using latest stable or latest dev) without being slower than Quake on a real Amiga.

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- FrodeSolheim on 2015-05-14 at 12:49 said:
  
  Hi, I do not *officially* support FS-UAE on PPC, but it sounds like you may have encountered the same problem as this user: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=76837 (see thread for possible solutions).
  
  As for performance, the G4 is likely underpowered for running FS-UAE. You can tweak FS-UAE to run a bit faster (see http://fs-uae.net/performance), and you also need to ensure you have HW-accelerated OpenGL, otherwise the rendering will slow down FS-UAE too.
  
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  - Aron Bott on 2015-05-14 at 17:55 said:
    
    Thanks for the reply!
    
    I have tried a few performance tweaks and nothing has really helped (at best 1 frame every 3 seconds vs every 5). I’m also about 80% certain that OpenGL is working, however I’m wondering what version the linux repositories gave me. If I’m reading correctly the Radeon 9200 in the G4 Mac Mini only supports OpenGL 1.3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Radeon_R200_series). Would it call for/use opengl functions that are incompatible?
    
    I’ve also had a chat with tlosm/Luigi who told me Mac OSX 10.5 was the was to go on a similarly specced G4 Mac, achieving about 68040/20 speeds, but otherwise I should use EUAE JIT PPC. To my knowledge all implementations of EUAE don’t support parallel joysticks which was something I was hoping for (and it really surprises me that this is pretty much the only emulation option under MorphOS).
    
    If I get a chance I’ll try the compiling tips from the link you mentioned, otherwise I ‘ll tinker with OpenGL more or revisit Linux at a later date and roll with OSX in the meantime.
    
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    - Aron Bott on 2015-05-15 at 07:27 said:
      
      I’ve found something that wasn’t allowing OpenGL drivers to function completely. Running glxinfo seemed to show everything working allright, but glxgears kept giving me nothing, and running the game Supertux was similarly slow with OpenGL turned on. The Mac Mini G4 w/Debian needs Mesa3D drivers for the OpenGL to function all the way, and I somehow missed one important bit of them: the libgl1-mesa-dri package. After that all of the above worked (though it could also have been one of the other packages I’d installed trying to troubleshoot opengl). Sadly even with that fixed FS-UAE was still slow (about 2fps) but the interface was improved! I really like how it pans out for the save state functions to appear (that didn’t happen at all before).
      
      Now I will try compiling again, as well as performance tweaks, to see if that changes anything, but after that if there are no changes in speed I’ll just try FS-UAE under OSX
      
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giants on 2015-01-12 at 23:08 said:

why it’s very slow on Odroid U3+
i compiled it on ubuntu desktop 13 and ubuntu server 14
both are very slow

i don’t understand why…

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- FrodeSolheim on 2015-01-17 at 14:21 said:
  
  See http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=76649 🙂
  
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martin on 2014-12-03 at 17:54 said:

installed both launcher and emulator, how can i start the launcher ?
its not in the menu

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- FrodeSolheim on 2014-12-03 at 17:55 said:
  
  Hi, too little information. What operating system are you using? How did you install FS-UAE Launcher, and what menu are you looking for it in?
  
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  - martin on 2014-12-03 at 18:00 said:
    
    main application menu. operating system in manjaro 0.8.10 32bit and i compiled from sources as said here in this how to.
    
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    - FrodeSolheim on 2014-12-03 at 18:09 said:
      
      Using python3 setup.py install does not install any launch icon. For the binary packages I provide for .rpm and .deb-based system for example, I add the launcher icon (.desktop file) when packaging the software. The setup script should install a “fs-uae-launcher” script though, which you can run manually – or you can create a launcher icon to run it.
      
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      - martin on 2014-12-03 at 18:16 said:
        
        i dont know how to create launcher,im somewhat new to linux and.
    - FrodeSolheim on 2014-12-03 at 18:22 said:
      
      I double-checked the source distribution btw. Looks like I have in fact at some point added the .desktop launcher to the source distribution, and I’ve also added a Makefile target to install it. Just run “make install” from the launcher source code directory to install the icon, launcher and translations 🙂
      
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      - martin on 2014-12-03 at 18:56 said:
        
        icon is there now, but when i click on it it doesnt start up for some reason…i have all dependencies installed.
        ok 😀 after trying to run it thru terminal, it says”no module named lzhlib.
      - FrodeSolheim on 2014-12-03 at 19:10 said:
        
        I don’t think that’s the problem. lhafile/lzhlib should be an optional dependency 🙂 Can you paste the last 20-30 lines of output from the terminal?
      - martin on 2014-12-03 at 19:27 said:
        
        [martinxd@Arvuti ~]$ fs-uae-launcher
        …
        Traceback (most recent call last):
        File “/usr/bin/fs-uae-launcher”, line 68, in
        from fs_uae_launcher.ConfigChecker import ConfigChecker
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fs_uae_launcher/ConfigChecker.py”, line 7, in
        from .Config import Config
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fs_uae_launcher/Config.py”, line 28, in
        from fsgs.platform import PlatformHandler
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fsgs/platform.py”, line 49, in
        from .platforms.amiga import AmigaPlatformHandler
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fsgs/platforms/amiga.py”, line 8, in
        from fsgs.amiga.runner import AmigaRunner
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fsgs/amiga/runner.py”, line 10, in
        from fsgs.amiga.LaunchHandler import LaunchHandler
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fsgs/amiga/LaunchHandler.py”, line 18, in
        from fsbc.Resources import Resources
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fsbc/Resources.py”, line 9, in
        from pkg_resources import resource_filename, resource_stream
        ImportError: No module named ‘pkg_resources’
      - FrodeSolheim on 2014-12-03 at 19:30 said:
        
        You are missing the required dependency setuptools (a python package).
      - martin on 2014-12-03 at 19:49 said:
        
        now it says …
        
        [martinxd@Arvuti ~]$ fs-uae-launcher
        Traceback (most recent call last):
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fsgs/Archive.py”, line 15, in
        from lhafile import LhaFile
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/lhafile/__init__.py”, line 2, in
        from .lhafile import *
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/lhafile/lhafile.py”, line 45, in
        import lzhlib
        ImportError: No module named ‘lzhlib’
        LhaFile module import problem
        checking /usr/bin/Portable.ini
        checking /usr/Portable.ini
        checking /Portable.ini
        no Portable.ini found in search path
        base_dir not decided yet, checking FS_UAE_BASE_DIR
        using default base_dir
        – checking /home/martinxd/.config/fs-uae-launcher/base-dir
        – checking /home/martinxd/.config/fs-uae/base-dir
        XDG user dir DOCUMENTS => ‘/home/martinxd/Dokumendid’
        base dir is /home/martinxd/Dokumendid/FS-UAE
        fs-uae-launcher
        2.4.1
        stable
        enabling except hook
        enable tread exception handler
        uname_result(system=’Linux’, node=’Arvuti’, release=’3.14.21-1-MANJARO’, version=’#1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 11 18:54:33 UTC 2014′, machine=’i686′, processor=”)
        [‘/usr/bin/fs-uae-launcher’]
        FS-UAE Launcher 2.4.1
        
        Unhandled exception detected in thread MainThread:
        Exception:__init__.py::56
        
        Traceback (most recent call last):
        File “/usr/bin/fs-uae-launcher”, line 71, in
        from fs_uae_launcher.FSUAELauncher import FSUAELauncher
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fs_uae_launcher/FSUAELauncher.py”, line 12, in
        from fs_uae_launcher.ui.download import DownloadGameWindow, DownloadTermsDialog
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fs_uae_launcher/ui/download.py”, line 10, in
        import fsui
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fsui/__init__.py”, line 24, in
        from .qt import *
        File “/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/fsui/qt/__init__.py”, line 56, in
        raise Exception(“no QT python bindings found”)
        Exception: no QT python bindings found
      - FrodeSolheim on 2014-12-13 at 08:58 said:
        
        You need python QT bindings…
        
        Btw, if you want to try running “your own version” of FS-UAE, it might be better to use the development version (http://fs-uae.net/download-devel). Since that is more up to date, I’ll easier be able to help you.
        
        I have also updated the documentation at http://fs-uae.net/compiling to work with the latest development version 🙂 (so you’ll find an updated list of dependencies on this page now).
Carsten Larsen on 2014-05-29 at 20:10 said:

I got it up and running on PCBSD 10. Be aware that you need to install gcc separately since FreeBSD changed to clang from version 10.

I needed to add a few other packages to complete the gmake build. But it works.

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- FrodeSolheim on 2014-06-08 at 18:37 said:
  
  Hi, that’s great! Note that GCC isn’t needed to compile FS-UAE (you should be able to point CC/CXX to clang instead). The latest development version uses autoconf and should detect the compiler automatically (and gmake isn’t needed either anymore).
  
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yvonne on 2014-02-23 at 20:30 said:

Thanks. works fine under FreeBSD 9.2! Y.

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RollandCG on 2014-02-22 at 20:37 said:

Hi! Thanks for fast reply 🙂
Sorry my English is bad 🙁 I tested with python 2.7 and 3.0 and have follow errors:

python2.7 /usr/bin/fs-uae-launcher
…
File “/usr/share/fs-uae-launcher/lhafile/lhafile.py”, line 45, in
import lzhlib
ImportError: No module named lzhlib
…
File “/usr/share/fs-uae-launcher/fsui/qt/__init__.py”, line 56, in
raise Exception(“no QT python bindings found”)
Exception: no QT python bindings found

python3 /usr/bin/fs-uae-launcher
…
File “/usr/share/fs-uae-launcher/fsgs/mame/mame.py”, line 92
rom_path = rom_path + u’;’ + self.mame_get_bios_dir()
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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- FrodeSolheim on 2014-02-22 at 21:24 said:
  
  It does not start on your system (with python2.7) because you are missing QT bindings for Python. You need either Pyside, PyQt4 or PyQt5. Python 3.x isn’t officially supported yet.
  
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RollandCG on 2014-02-22 at 19:25 said:

I use CommodoreOS Vision (Linux Mint Julia)

python fs-uae-launcher

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “fs-uae-launcher”, line 31, in
from fsgs.FSGSDirectories import FSGSDirectories
File “/home/user/Downloads/fs-uae-launcher-2.4.0/fsgs/__init__.py”, line 6, in
from .FSGameSystemContext import FSGameSystemContext
File “/home/user/Downloads/fs-uae-launcher-2.4.0/fsgs/FSGameSystemContext.py”, line 17, in
from fsgs.Archive import Archive
File “/home/user/Downloads/fs-uae-launcher-2.4.0/fsgs/Archive.py”, line 24, in
from fsbc.SevenZipFile import SevenZipFile
File “/home/user/Downloads/fs-uae-launcher-2.4.0/fsbc/SevenZipFile.py”, line 68
return {“name:”, name}
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Regards
Rolly

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- FrodeSolheim on 2014-02-22 at 19:37 said:
  
  This is a bug, the line should be return {“name:”: name} instead (colon should replace the comma). It does not cause a syntax error in Python 2.7 since this is a valid expression for sets.
  
  FS-UAE Launcher is not tested with Python 2.6. I’ll fix this error, but the launcher may still not work with Python 2.6, You should, if possible, upgrade your Linux distribution so you have Python 2.7.
  
  If you already have Python 2.7 installed (but 2.6 is default), please run the launcher with
  python2.7 /usr/bin/fs-uae-launcher
  
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Alptekin SANLI on 2014-02-09 at 21:13 said:

I’m trying to compile on FreeBSD 10, and have all the dependencies installed (including gcc; I also have gcc49). The compilation quits with the following:

g++ -DFSEMU -DFSUAE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DFREEBSD -DUSE_SDL -DUSE_GLIB -DWITH_LUA -Isrc/od-fs -Isrc/od-fs/include -Isrc/include -Igensrc -Isrc `pkg-config –cflags glib-2.0 gthread-2.0 libpng` -Ilibfsemu/include -Ilibfsemu/src/lua `sdl-config –cflags` -O2 -ggdb -c gensrc/blitfunc.cpp -o obj/gensrc-blitfunc.o
g++: not found
gmake: *** [obj/gensrc-blitfunc.o] Error 127

Am I missing something, or is this a FreeBSD 10 issue?

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- FrodeSolheim on 2014-02-09 at 23:29 said:
  
  You are missing the C++ compiler from GCC (g++). Perhaps you need to install that separately from “gcc” in FreeBSD 10? – or perhaps it is installed but with a version suffix like g++-4.9 instead?
  
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Marko Cupać on 2013-03-30 at 12:19 said:

Hi, thanx for the cool emulator. On FreeBSD openal-soft is in audio category, so perhaps you could correct devel/openal-soft to audio/openal-soft.

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- FrodeSolheim on 2013-03-30 at 12:53 said:
  
  Thanks, I have corrected the documentation!
  
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