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leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

[DONE] CXMame. ncurses frontend for mame

Homepage:
http://yeeking.net/cxmame/

From that page:

Introduction
CXmame is a simple console based frontend for xmame, written in C using the ncurses library. It should run on all GNU/linux boxes, and hopefully other Unices

I started building this because I thought it would be nice to have a console based frontend for xmame.svgalib, especially for people who want to run xmame on a machine without X. But I suppose something like this is ideal for someone who just wants a minimal frontend - I like typing the game names to jump to them in the menu ;=)

Screenshots:
http://yeeking.net/cxmame/images/cxmame-0.png
http://yeeking.net/cxmame/images/cxmame-1.png

Source:
http://yeeking.net/cxmame/files/cxmame- … rc.tar.bz2

Installation:

Just unpack the tarball anywhere you have write permissions, eg

$ tar zxf cxmame-0.4.src.tar.gz
or
$ tar xfj cxmame-0.4.src.tar.bz2

then cd to the directory and:

make
make install

note - make install needs to be done as root.

Before you run cxmame you have to create a ~/.cxmamerc file containing the name of the xmame exectable you want to use (with full path if its not in your PATH ), followed by a ';'. For example my ~/.cxmamerc looks like this.

xmame.svgalib;

Then, the first time you run cxmame it will scan your roms and
build a gamelist from them. This could take a little while depending on how
many roms you've got in your rompath, but it only happens the first time.
( you have to set your rompath as per normal , eg in your xmamerc file ).

So far i try to make the PKGBUILD, with no sucess

# Contributor: Leandro Chescotta <leandro.chescotta@gmail.com>
pkgname=cxmame
pkgver=0.4.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="CXmame is a simple console based frontend for xmame, written in C using the ncurses library"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://yeeking.net/cxmame/"
license=('GPL')
groups=()
depends=()
makedepends=()
provides=(cxmame)
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
options=()
install=
source=(http://yeeking.net/cxmame/files/$pkgname-$pkgver.src.tar.bz2)
noextract=()
md5sums=('b8242450d947db73e35bcb602a71cba7') #generate with 'makepkg -g'

build() {
    cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"

    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make || return 1
    make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install

TNX for read!

Last edited by leo2501 (2009-02-28 19:38:18)

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ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: [DONE] CXMame. ncurses frontend for mame

This software doesn't use the GNU autotools so ./configure etc is not applicable.  The Makefile also hard codes the location of the 'install' program to /usr/bin/install whereas on Arch it is at /bin/install so we need to patch the Makefile slightly.  Try the following build function in your PKGBUILD:

build() {
    cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver" || return 1
# correct location of install in the Makefile
    sed -i 's/\/usr\/bin\/install/\/bin\/install/' Makefile || return 1
# create intended target directory
    install -m755 -d $pkgdir/usr/bin || return 1

    make || return 1
    make INSTALL_DIR=$pkgdir/usr/bin install || return 1
}

You may also want a 'cxmame.install' file to tell users to create a ~/.cxname file as per the README.

Last edited by ghostHack (2008-07-12 17:08:39)

leo2501

Member

From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: [DONE] CXMame. ncurses frontend for mame

it works great! i just upload it to AUR, it's my first package! lol

still don't know how to edit the .xmamerc file to get the roms loaded

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

leo2501

Member

From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: [DONE] CXMame. ncurses frontend for mame

this do the trick...

sdlmame -showconfig > ~/.xmame/xmamerc

but still can't get mame to show me the roms

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery