snes9express // zsnes on Arch64?

rbl · 2007-04-03 16:59:47

Has anyone managed to get snes9express or zsnes running on Arch64?
For me, zsnes won't run and snes9express won't compile.

[vEX] · 2007-04-03 17:10:58

Did you manage to compile ZSNES? They state on their site that it won't compile on 64-bit systems due to 32-bit asm. I have a 32-bit chroot from where I run ZSNES.

rbl · 2007-04-03 20:31:13

It seemed to compile, although with errors. Not 100% sure though. It did build the pkg. But the binary wouldn't run, although I have some lib32 packages.

AndyRTR · 2007-04-03 21:11:16

assembler code will usually not recognise any lib on your system. so going multilib is not a solution for running x86 asm code. just port the code or use a 32bit chroot.

[vEX] · 2007-04-04 10:15:52

I tried building the ZSNES package myself just to see how it fares, in the end you'll see how it complains about i386 code not being compatible with x86_64 (when compiling the asm code), though it doesn't die with an error and the package gets built anyway. I think you're left with setting a 32-bit chroot up and run ZSNES from there.

Regarding snes9express, there is a snes9x package in extra, wouldn't that suffice?

rbl · 2007-04-04 15:34:03

[vEX] wrote:

Regarding snes9express, there is a snes9x package in extra, wouldn't that suffice?

Well, snes9x runs. I just don't want to spend hours trying to figure out how to manually configure my gamepad, fullscreen capabilities etc. so a nice GUI would make things a lot easier.. so, what's wrong with that snes9express package? Anyone able to build it?

[vEX] · 2007-04-04 16:33:17

rbl wrote:

[vEX] wrote:
Regarding snes9express, there is a snes9x package in extra, wouldn't that suffice?
Well, snes9x runs. I just don't want to spend hours trying to figure out how to manually configure my gamepad, fullscreen capabilities etc. so a nice GUI would make things a lot easier.. so, what's wrong with that snes9express package? Anyone able to build it?

Oh, last time I used Snes9X was way back and they did provide a GUI, then again I was using Windows.

Just tried compiling snes9express and it failed, the problems seems to lie in the skinning part. After messing around with the source I saw the following in "defines.h" (near the bottom):

#define S9X_SKINABLE 1

Remove that line and it will compile. I'm not sure what functionallity you will be missing, but it compiles and runs.

Last edited by [vEX] (2007-04-04 16:33:59)

rbl · 2007-04-05 21:22:34

[vEX] wrote:

in "defines.h" (near the bottom):
#define S9X_SKINABLE 1
Remove that line and it will compile. I'm not sure what functionallity you will be missing, but it compiles and runs.

Yay! Thanks a lot. Seems snes9express is only missing unnecessary skin support.

Well, now I'll try to figure out how to get fullscreen support to work. So far it fails with this error:

Can't open "/dev/mem", full screen mode not available: Permission denied

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#1 2007-04-03 16:59:47

snes9express // zsnes on Arch64?

#2 2007-04-03 17:10:58

Re: snes9express // zsnes on Arch64?

#3 2007-04-03 20:31:13

Re: snes9express // zsnes on Arch64?

#4 2007-04-03 21:11:16

Re: snes9express // zsnes on Arch64?

#5 2007-04-04 10:15:52

Re: snes9express // zsnes on Arch64?

#6 2007-04-04 15:34:03

Re: snes9express // zsnes on Arch64?

#7 2007-04-04 16:33:17

Re: snes9express // zsnes on Arch64?

#8 2007-04-05 21:22:34

Re: snes9express // zsnes on Arch64?

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