Message-ID: <19981221143700.A3959@tabor.ta.jcu.cz>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:37:00 +0100
From: Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: help for AAlib-1.2
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In-Reply-To: <36591669.6823826@news.flash.net>; from miori k on Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 08:01:51AM +0000
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hi,
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 08:01:51AM +0000, miori k wrote:
> I just got this ascii graphics library at the recommendation of a
> friend (who I later found out cannot program; he merely saw the BB
> graphics demo). 
> 
> As was stated in README, I also got the VGA lib and the TEXT lib, both
> of which I was able to compile with a simple "make" command. When I
> got around to compiling AAlib itself however (using "make -f
> makefile.dos") I find that the file "stdin" requires "gpm.h". 
> 
> Copied direct from the dos box:
> >C:\DJGPP\programs\aalibtst\aalib-1.2>make -f makefile.dos
> >gcc -O2 -m486 -fstrength-reduce -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -I../text -Wall
> >     -c aastdin.c -o aastdin.o
> >aastdin.c:9: gpm.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> >make.exe: *** [aastdin.o] Error 1
> 
> >C:\DJGPP\programs\aalibtst\aalib-1.2>
> 
> Three questions: did I decipher the error message correctly? Where can
> I find the gpm library for dos? (I already know its an integral part
> of linux) And finally, does anyone else here know/use the AAlib ascii
> art library?
This looks like you have short filenames and config.h.in got truncated
to config.h that caused makefile to not use config.dos for config.h
and use UNIX configuration. Just remove config.h and it should work.

Honza
> 
> In case anyone is interested, the homepage for the project is
> http://horac.ta.jcu.cz//aa/
> 
> ~luv, miori