I wanted to present something on the International Women’s Day
and the timing was perfect. Today I have finished the compilation
experiment on the Tru64 Unix and Dopewars.
One would ask, what is Dopewars and why the hell should it be
compiled on Tru64 ?
Dopewars is a turn-based strategy computer game in which the player
assumes the role of a drug dealer engaged in arbitrage. The object
of the game is to deal the most drugs to pay off the “loan shark”
(who charges interest) by the end of the game and make a profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugwars
Some notable QueenPins
– Sandra Ávila Beltrán (La Reina del Pacífico, Queen of the Pacific)
– Griselda Blanco (La Madrina, the Black Widow)
There seems to be no build of Dopewars for Tru64 Alpha available on
the internet. I wonder if anybody tried to build this little gem in
the past.
So lets get our hands dirty and start this exercise !
My original config does not provide enough disk space, so I had
to add an extra SCSI emulated drive for the build environment.
Adding a new disk to our Tru64 virtual environment
First create an empty disk2.dsk file on the host (2GB)
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk2.dd bs=1024 count=2M
Add disk2.dd info to alphavm.config
scsi_disk dka1 {
scsi_bus = 0;
scsi_id = 2;
scsi_lun = 0;
file = 'disk2.dd';
caching = no;
write_through = yes;
}
Once Tru64 booted scan for the new scsi device (note the new device)
hwmgr scan scsi hwmgr -view device
Get the new DISK ready
disklabel -rw dsk2c disklabel -r dsk2c mkfdmn dsk2c devel_domain mkfset devel_domain data mkdir /data
edit /etc/fstabt and add entry relevant to fstab
devel_domain#data /data advfs rw 0 2
Mount the disk
mount /data
Install some RPMs that we will need (make life easier and the CPU cooler)
mkdir -p /cdrom0 mount -t cdfs /dev/disk/cdrom0c /cdrom rpm -ivh /cdrom/RPMS/alpha/gtar-1.13-4.alpha.rpm rpm -ivh /cdrom/RPMS/alpha/gmake-3.79.1-4.alpha.rpm
Dude, you wanna compile libiconv ?
We are gonna use the native Tru64 cc compiler
Download libiconv from http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/libiconv-1.8
copy the file to /data and uncompress it there. Let’s assume that the extracted files are in /data/libiconv-1.8
cd /data/libiconv-1.8 env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure make make install
Dude, you wanna compile pkg-config ?
Download pkg-config from https://pkgconfig.freedsktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
Uncompress the file under a directory in /data. Let’s assume that the extracted files are in /data/pkg-config-0.21/
make sure to use gtar
cd /data/pkg-config-0.21/ env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure make make install
Dude, you wanna compile gettext ?
Download gettext from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.14.3.tar.gz
Uncompress the file under a directory in /data. Let’s assume that the extracted files are in /data/gettext-0.14.3/
make sure to use gtar
cd /data/gettext-0.14.3/ env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure make make install
Dude, you wanna compile ncurses ?
Download ncurses from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.8.tar.gz
Uncompress the file under a directory in /data. Let’s assume that the extracted files are in /data/ncurses-5.8/
make sure to use gtar
cd /data/ncurses-5.8 env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s CXX=/data/gcc/bin/c++ ./configure --with-shared --without-normal --without-debug make make install rpm -ivh /cdrom/RPMS/alpha/glib-1.2.10-4.alpha.rpm (needed for Dope Wars)
Dude, you wanna compile GTK+ ?
Download GTK+ from https://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/1.2/gtk+-1.2.10.tar.gz
Uncompress the file under a directory in /data. Let’s assume that the extracted files are in /data/gtk+-1.2.10/
make sure to use gtar
cd /data/gtk+-1.2.10 env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure make make install
Dude, you wanna compile DOPEWARS ?
Download dopewars from https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dopewars/dopewars/1.5.12/dopewars-1.5.12.tar.gz
Uncompress the file under a directory /data. Let’s assume that the extracted files are in /data/dopewars-1.5.12
Note: dopewars builds fine on Tru64, but curses option -t is broken currently so we use GTK instead
cd /data/dopewars-1.5.12 ./configure --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local --enable-gtk-client gmake gmake install
Finally start the game
/usr/local/bin/dopewars -w
Server only Dopewars version running on Tru64 (clients connecting)
GTK+ client version running on Tru64
When I figure out how to build the DOPEWARS package for Tru64 I will post a link :)
Final greetz to all the ladies !
Compile GCC 4.1.1 (optional for experiments)
Install glib from GNU-TOOLS ISO for Tru64 (will remove later when we build newer glib with gcc)
rpm -ivh /cdrom/RPMS/alpha/glib-1.2.10-4.alpha.rpm
Note: You should use GNU make (gmake) version 3.79 or higher to build gcc.
gmake is located on the GNU-TOOLS ISO for Tru64
rpm -ivh /cdrom/RPMS/alpha/gmake-3.79.1-4.alpha.rpm
Download gcc 4.1.1 from http://gcc.gnu.org
Uncompress the file under a directory in /data. Let’s assume that the extracted files are in /data/gcc-4.1.1/
Note: You should use gtar to untar the file, otherwise you will get some errors
Configure GCC build
cd /data/gcc-4.1.1/ ./configure --prefix=/data/gcc --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local
This step takes a long time, usually a few hours!
gmake install
