Fw: Re: FCEUX
by John Arntz
Andrea,
I was able to contact someone from upstream, and I got the reply below. What is the proper way to proceed if upstream is unwilling to use the system library? Should we drop lua support all together? I know you said the lua features are what make fceux stand out as a good emulator, but I'm not sure we can have it, if upstream is unwilling to use system libraries.
Regards,
John
--- On Sat, 1/16/10, Matthew Gambrell <mgambrell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Matthew Gambrell <mgambrell(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: FCEUX
> To: "John Arntz" <jsarntz(a)yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 2:23 PM
> For issue 1, nothing I can do about that,
> although we are currently considering how to better
> communicate with people since mailing lists are apparently
> not reliable. I'll let you know when we change
> anything.
>
> For issue 2, I suggest you investigate the way lua is
> commonly used and what it is intended for, specifically the
> way it is meant to be compile-time customized and embedded
> in programs. Your distro's policy is not applicable to
> lua, and if they are applying it, then they are wrong, and
> you need to argue with them about that. In general, what
> are we supposed to do if we are using a library that has
> been heavily modified? Wouldn't we have no choice but to
> drop it into our source tree?
>
>
>
> For issue 3, this hasn't stopped any number of other
> distros from packaging fceux. Perhaps you should see how
> theyve dealt with it. In fceux, it is not such a big deal
> since there are only two applications really, but what are
> larger projects with more buildable targets in their source
> tree supposed to do? Cut a dozen tarballs out of the source
> tree?
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:42 PM,
> John Arntz <jsarntz(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> My name is John Arntz, and I and one of the people
> attempting to package FCEUX for http://rpmfusion.org which
> is a repository for Fedora RPM packages that cannot be
> packaged in Fedora itself for various reasons. I'm
> writing you because I am having a couple issues.
>
>
>
>
>
> The first issue I am having is that I would have posted
> this on the discussion mailing list, however I am having
> trouble subscribing. I have filled out the request, but have
> not yet gotten back a confirmation E-Mail. I used this
> E-Mail address to subscribe with.
>
>
>
>
>
> Second, the main issue preventing us from making a package
> is the fact that FCEUX uses Lua statically. RPM Fusion
> follows the Fedora packaging guidelines, which state that a
> package must be built using system provided libraries. The
> problem I am encountering is that FCEUX will not compile
> with the system provided Lua because one of your source
> files requires header files from the static Lua source.
> Specifically, in lua-engine.cpp, line 1064 where the comment
> says if this line crashes, your header files are out of sync
> with lua lib. Fedora is using the current header files that
> came with the latest version of lua, so AFAIK that is not
> the issue. I need to know is what I need to fix to make
> FCEUX compile using the system provided libraries.
>
>
>
>
>
> The third issue is that FCEUX/GFCEUX should be split into
> two separate tarballs. This is more of a minor issue, but it
> would be easier for packages if these two peices of software
> were in their own tarballs.
>
>
>
> I love FCEUX. It is my favorite NES Emulator, so that's
> why I chose to try to package it for RPM Fusion. Any
> assistance you could provide to make this possible would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> John S. Arntz
14 years, 11 months
Re: fceux
by John Arntz
Andrea,
I followed your recommendations to strip the source of the Lua files, but now it will not compile and gives this error:
src/lua-engine.cpp: In function 'void CallRegisteredLuaLoadFunctions(int, const LuaSaveData&)':
src/lua-engine.cpp:1064: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct lua_State'
src/fceulua.h:43: error: forward declaration of 'struct lua_State'
src/lua-engine.cpp: In function 'void toCStringConverter(lua_State*, int, char*&, int&)':
Based on some of the files I had patch after I stripped the lua out of the source, it seems that this code needs one of the internal headers of lua from the static source, lstate.h. At least they are using the latest lua, but since I'm not much a programmer, I would not know where to begin debugging it so it will build using the system proved lua. I have sent an E-Mail to upstream for advice, so we'll see if they have any suggestions. I have also cc:'d this mail to the list in case anyone else in RPM Fusion might have some suggestions. I know you've been busy (I have been too), so no worries if you can't get to this right away.
Regards,
John
--- On Sun, 1/10/10, Andrea Musuruane <musuruan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Andrea Musuruane <musuruan(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: fceux
> To: "John Arntz" <jsarntz(a)yahoo.com>
> Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 10:10 AM
> Ho John,
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 5:52 PM, John Arntz <jsarntz(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Upon closer inspection, the line commented out by sed
> is:
> >
> > #env.Append(CCFLAGS = ['-Wall', '-Wno-write-strings',
> '-Wno-sign-compare', '-O2', '-Isrc/lua/src'])
> >
> > it looks like the '-Isrc/lua/src' is necessary to
> point the compiler to the sources to support lua. I made a
> patch that patches lua-engine.cpp that points to the files
> that it has trouble finding and it will build with that. But
> I was wondering now, if it would be better to put
> '-Isrc/lad/src' someplace else in SConstruct and patch it?
>
> You must not use the local supplied LUA libriary, but you
> must always
> use the system one. The fact that LUA is now bundle in
> fceux sources
> is a new (and very wrong thing).
>
> Therefore I suggest you to:
>
> 1. see if the local source copy of LUA is equal to the one
> Fedora provides
> 2. remove the local source dir of LUA in %prep to be sure
> not to use it
> 3. patch fceux to use the system LUA
>
> > https://sites.google.com/site/subwaysrpms/files/fceux-2.1.2-1.fc12.src.rp...
> >
> > https://sites.google.com/site/subwaysrpms/files/fceux.spec?attredirects=0...
> >
> > Here are the links to my SRPM and .spec files. Once
> everything gets worked out I plan to submit it for review to
> RPMFusion.
>
> I'll try to have a deeper look later this week. Sorry, I
> have a lack
> of free time right now.
>
> Bye,
>
> Andrea.
>
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