REQ: Game Launcher compiled for Linux

[SirPeale]

I'm trying to make a Linux box for console games to hook up to my TV.  I did it in DOS before, and it worked okay, but since DOS has very little USB support, I would like to use Linux.

I've already got it pretty well pared down (and it will be even slimmer by the time I'm done).  My front end of choice is Game Launcher.  You can get precompiled binaries for Windows and DOS, but not for Linux.  It does not state on the site (or readmes) which version of GCC to use, so I'm using the stock compiler that comes with Slackware Linux 9.0.  It keeps erroring out.

I'm getting frustrated, so I was hoping some kind soul would compile it for me, zip it up and send it my way.

[screaming]

I'm trying to make a Linux box for console games to hook up to my TV.  I did it in DOS before, and it worked okay, but since DOS has very little USB support, I would like to use Linux.

I've already got it pretty well pared down (and it will be even slimmer by the time I'm done).  My front end of choice is Game Launcher.  You can get precompiled binaries for Windows and DOS, but not for Linux.  It does not state on the site (or readmes) which version of GCC to use, so I'm using the stock compiler that comes with Slackware Linux 9.0.  It keeps erroring out.

I'm getting frustrated, so I was hoping some kind soul would compile it for me, zip it up and send it my way.

  Did you ever get this done? I started to try and help you out but then got sidetracked (sorry).  Now that it's been a couple days I just wanted to check to make sure you still needed it.

/Steve

[SirPeale]

Oh, yes please.  I'm suprised they don't offer it as a binary.  When you compile it, I'll throw it up on my site.

[screaming]

I tried sending it to your Hotmail account but it bounced.  I'm uploading it to http://www.baseinfinity.org/tmp/game-launcher-0.9.8.tar.gz now so it should be complete by around 7:15AM (Eastern).

Keep in mind that the list of prerequisistes is pretty long:

From http://www.dribin.org/dave/game_launcher/readme.html
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Libraries needed:

Allegro 4.0.x: A multi-platform graphics programming library.
loadpng v0.9+: A PNG extension to Allegro, requires libpng and Allegro.
AllegroMP3 v1.6+: An MP3 library, requires Allegro.
libbcd: A library to interface to MSCDEX, the CD driver (DOS only).
libpng: A portable PNG library, requires zlib.
zlib: A portable compression library.
AllegTTF v2.0+: A TrueType font renderer for Allegro. It includes code
from the FreeType project.
JPGAlleg v1.1: A JPEG loader for Allegro.
jpgal11b.zip: A patch to JPGAlleg v1.1 for modifications needed
specifically for Game Launcher.
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I don't know if you need them in order to simply run GL, or if you only
need them to compile it.  Anyway, this is what I ended up with. Let me
know if you have any problems.

/Steve

/S

[SirPeale]

Sweetness!  I'll let you know how it goes.

[SirPeale]

It didn't work.  Aparently was missing some stuff, like _gl32.

[screaming]

It didn't work.  Aparently was missing some stuff, like _gl32.

  Hmm.. That should have been included in the tar file?  Maybe put the GL directory in your path?

  That _gl32 file relies on libpng. Are you sure you have all the requirements installed?

/S

[Jakobud]

If you guys want a very good alternative to Game Launcher for Linux, look here:

lemonlauncher.sourceforge.net/

It looks basically just like Game Launcher, except for 2 major things:

1. It supports unlimited submenu's (which is awesome imho)
2. Only supports Mame I think (no other emu's)

Anyways, check it out I think you guys will like it.  I think there are Windows and Linux flavors on the website.

[SirPeale]

Odd...somehow it must have not been pulled from the archive.  I deleted and tried again, and there it was.

It's looking for one of the C++ libraries, libsdtc++.so.5 (or something close to that, I didn't write it down)