Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!7103_300
From: 7103_300@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Compiling Nethack3.0
Message-ID: <3749@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 5 Sep 89 00:42:01 GMT
References: <8909040950.AA06992@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca
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In article <8909040950.AA06992@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SQ79@liverpool.ac.UK (Mark Powell) writes:
>    Anyone had any joy compiling nethack3.0 under TOS, and I don't mean with
> that ridiculously large GCC thingy (I just wish I had 2.5 Megs really!!)
> I'm going to try with MWC and sozobon (if I ever get the thing to work.)
> Can anyone comment on their suitablity?
>    And... If Eric Smith is out there... what did you compile 2.3e on???

The current version of Sozobon won't compile NetHack. MWC probably would,
but might need some tweaking. NetHack 3.0 patchlevel >= 1 will compile as
distributed under TOS, if you have the GCC and at least 2 megs.

I compiled nethack 2.3 with Laser, originally, and switched to the GCC
later. Laser was a real pain to work with, and I found a lot of bugs
both in the compiler and library (they may have fixed them in the latest
version of Laser, but frankly the GCC is a better compiler and a lot
cheaper!). All of this was done on a Mega 2.

The next patch for NetHack is coming out this week, and I'll be
mailing the TOS binaries to the moderator of comp.binaries.atari.st
at that time.
--
Eric R. Smith				ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca
Dept. of Mathematics			ersmith@uwovax.bitnet
University of Western Ontario
London, Ont.