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From: iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Iverson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: PC Nethack 2.2 bugs + help wanted linking
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 23:50:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 23:50:16 1987
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In article <492@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) writes:
>pcmain.c: line 135: insert an #endif line for "#ifdef WIZARD".
yup.
>options.c: 446: append a ; to this line
yup.
>pcunix.c: lines 17, 20: take out the "sys/"
not necesary on my system - bastardized msc4.0

>	: lines 94, 108, 118, 127, 147: Change the slashes (/) to backslashes
>	since they are used in MS-DOS instead of slashes. Also, you'll need
>	two backslashes, since one backslash means to use the next character
>	literally. Summary: change "/" to "\\".

MS-DOS will cheerfully support "/" as well as "\" for system calls: this
fix isn't needed.

>   Now to ask for help linking. It links with no error or warning messages,
>but every time I run it I get "Error 2000: stack overflow." I've tried
>/STACK:4000, /STACK:65536, values in between, and even /STACK:0xa00, which
>used to work on the old version of Nethack, but always get a stack overflow.
>Anyone have any ideas?

This one got me too.  What you need is 1) do not specify -Gs (no stack
checking on runtime), 2) use "/noi /stack:0xf00 /seg:1024" for the linker
switches, and 3) use "-Gt32" on the compiler (MSC4.0) to set the threshold
at which objects are placed in their own separate segment.  A lower threshold
would allow a larger stack, but this works so far and I'm not about to
recompile everything again.

Once you get it compiled and able to run, you will realize several other
problems:  the GRAPHICS code still has the same old machine dependent word
order bug, the MSDOSCOLOR option is very ugly and can't be changed without
recompiling - should have been done with a different termcap file instead of
coded in, cursor optimization is real lame and doesn't work (doesn't
optimize and doesn't put the cursor in the right place), the nethack.cnf
file is very broken.  In essence, 2.2 is just as much of a "hack" as the old
version.  The maze vertical wall is still horizontal (why? why?).  If you
can wait 'till next week, I'll post my fixes.


- Tim Iverson
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