HOWTO: Compile VICE in Ubuntu

[K.Mandla]

im using linux mint ant ive installed vice through the package manager. but i dont see it in the game section in the menu button on the bottom left hand of the sceen. do i need to use come kind of command line to load it up all the time? or can i create a shortcut to my desktop?

Beats me. You should probably ask the 'Mint folks where it is supposed to reside to make sure you're not working around a bug.

[K.Mandla]

I've updated the howto only slightly for the Jaunty release. Ubuntu 9.04 works fine with the tutorial as it is.

(That's with the Gnome user interface enabled; the instructions as they stand only call for the xaw-based interface.)

Enjoy!

[RogueClown]

i'm having trouble saving my programs in VICE c128 mode.

i am running VICE on a HP Pavilion dv4000, running Hardy Heron. in my ~/.vice/vicerc, i first defined FSDevice8Dir="/home/adalia/bin/vice/c128", a directory i had created. i tried to save a program by typing DSAVE"programname", and it gave me a device not present error.

i then went back into the vicerc file and defined FSDevice8Dir=".". i fired up VICE again, wrote another sample program and ran DSAVE"programname". the screen output:

SAVING 0: PROGRAMNAME
READY

then, i typed DIRECTORY to see if it saved, and it didn't list any files. there just printed a blank line, and then READY. sure enough, i listed the directory that it was supposed to save in, and there were no files in the directory.

i'm wondering...what am i doing wrong?

thank you for your help;

[richard270384]

Thanks for the info. However I did have some issues running vice on my laptop.

The problem was mainly with the joystick options, it seemed that you couldn't define your own keyset and I couldn't get the other two keysets to work. As my laptop doesn't have a number pad I could not use that option either.

The solution I found was to run "./configure --enable-gnomeui" after making and installing there is now the option to define your own keys under Settings>Joystick settings>Define keysets

I hope this helps any laptop users like myself with this or similar problems with the joystick options.

I'm having this same problem - and most games require a joystick in one way or another.

I tried Frankie's advice to configure with --enable-gnomeui, but I got this error message:

checking for GTK... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GTK_CFLAGS
and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I tried to find a package named gtk+-2.0 (or something similar) in Synaptic but couldn't find one.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04... Any thoughts or any other info you need?

[K.Mandla]

I'm having this same problem - and most games require a joystick in one way or another.

I tried Frankie's advice to configure with --enable-gnomeui, but I got this error message:

checking for GTK... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GTK_CFLAGS
and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I tried to find a package named gtk+-2.0 (or something similar) in Synaptic but couldn't find one.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04... Any thoughts or any other info you need?

If I recall correctly, you'll need the libgtk2.0-dev package in order to get that working under the Gnome UI. To be honest, I would recommend installing gnome-core-devel instead, since it's probably going to require more than just the GTK2.0 development files.

But a +1 to the Gnome-based interface, for ease of adjusting the joystick settings. It's a shame the xaw version doesn't also have that option. ...

[richard270384]

If I recall correctly, you'll need the libgtk2.0-dev package in order to get that working under the Gnome UI. To be honest, I would recommend installing gnome-core-devel instead, since it's probably going to require more than just the GTK2.0 development files.

But a +1 to the Gnome-based interface, for ease of adjusting the joystick settings. It's a shame the xaw version doesn't also have that option. ...

I installed gnome-core-devel and it works fine now. Thanks.

[whoya]

K.Mandla you a life saver. i did as you said copyed the code and now im playing all the old c64 games i loved so much.
cheers mate

[K.Mandla]

It's more than 3 years old, but the how-to still works. This is Ubuntu 9.10 and VICE 2.2.



Enjoy!

[K.Mandla]

I've tried four or five times now to build VICE 2.2 in Lucid, but I hit the same error each time. Here are the final lines from the make command, so you can compare it with yours.

x11video.c:268: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype
x11video.c: In function ‘shmhandler’:
x11video.c:348: error: ‘X_ShmAttach’ undeclared (first use in this function)
x11video.c:348: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
x11video.c:348: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[7]: *** [x11video.o] Error 1
make[7]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11/xaw'
make[6]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11/xaw'
make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

real	1m49.583s
user	2m40.754s
sys	0m14.309s

I will do a little more research and see if there is a patch or a fix somewhere; more than likely something was updated in a core library that interferes with VICE's compilation, and it will be adjusted on one or the other side. Stay tuned. ...

[datenraffzahn]

@K.Mandla

I've a work-arround for this issue.

1. open vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11/xaw/x11video.c

with you favorite editor

2. goto line 348 and replace X_ShmAttach by 1

3. save, close and compile

First I tried to include shmproto.h but this didn't do it. Compliler tells me this file would'nt exist, but it does. So I commented out my own include again.

Just looking out the value for X_ShmAttach in the shmproto.h file and replacing it in x11video.c by 1 (as defined in shmproto.h) does the trick. Vice compiles probably.

regards.