Hi,

I am trying compile SBBS on Opensuse Tumbleweed. I have the required libraries installed. All goes well till this happens.

make[2]: Entering directory '/sbbs/repo/src/conio'Compiling ciolib.cciolib.c: In function `try_curses_init':ciolib.c:290:20: error: lvalue required as unary `&' operand 290 | #endif | ^make[2]: *** [../build/Common.gmake:465: gcc.linux.x64.obj.release-mt/ciolib.o] Error 1make[2]: Leaving directory '/sbbs/repo/src/conio'make[1]: *** [/sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3/../build/Common.gmake:512: ciolib-mt] Error 2make[1]: Leaving directory '/sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3'make: *** [GNUmakefile:152: sbbs3] Error 2sbbs@DELL-E6430:/sbbs>

I am doing this as a user called sbbs. Any help would be great.

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Mark Da Silva wrote to All <=-

I am trying compile SBBS on Opensuse Tumbleweed. I have the
required libraries installed. All goes well till this happens.

make[2]: Entering directory '/sbbs/repo/src/conio'Compiling ciolib.cciolib.c: In function `try_curses_init':ciolib.c:290:20:
error: lvalue required as unary `&' operand 290 | #endif |
^make[2]: *** [../build/Common.gmake:465: gcc.linux.x64.obj.release-mt/ciolib.o] Error 1make[2]: Leaving
directory '/sbbs/repo/src/conio'make[1]: *** [/sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3/../build/Common.gmake:512: ciolib-mt] Error 2make[1]: Leaving directory '/sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3'make: *** [GNUmakefile:152: sbbs3] Error 2sbbs@DELL-E6430:/sbbs>

My semi-educated guess is that you don't have the proper 'ncursesw'
package installed (whatever it's called in opensuse). It's important
that you use a package with the 'w' on the end, not just an 'ncurses'
package.



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My semi-educated guess is that you don't have the proper 'ncursesw' package installed (whatever it's called in opensuse). It's important
that you use a package with the 'w' on the end, not just an 'ncurses' package.

Yeah, I think I was missing some ncurses stuff. Been compiling for awhile now. we'll see how it goes. Thanks for the help.

Mark

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Re: Re: Compiling Synchronet Linux
By: Mark Da Silva to Gamgee on Sun Sep 04 2022 10:21 am

My semi-educated guess is that you don't have the proper 'ncursesw' package installed (whatever it's called in opensuse). It's important that you use a package with the 'w' on the end, not just an 'ncurses' package.

Yeah, I think I was missing some ncurses stuff. Been compiling for awhile now. we'll see how it goes. Thanks for the help.

Was that the fix?
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Was that the fix?

Yes, I have it running as a systemd service on my linux system. I have to still configure it for use but it is working.

Thank You All.

Mark

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Re: Compiling Synchronet Linux
By: Mark Da Silva to All on Sat Sep 03 2022 23:05:07

I am trying compile SBBS on Opensuse Tumbleweed. I have the required libraries installed. All goes well till this happens.

This is way old but the fix for this is to change line 290 of ciolib.c to
#if 0

zypper install -t pattern devel_C_C++
zypper installer net-tools-deprecated libncurses5 ncurses5-devel mozilla-nspr-devel python2 zip libcap-devel libglade2-devel libarchive-devel libcap-progs gtk3-devel

THis will install pretty much everything you need to get sbbs to compile on OpenSuSE Tumbleweed along with the fix above.

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Re: Compiling Synchronet Linux
By: Nelgin to Mark Da Silva on Wed Sep 21 2022 16:15:27

This is way old but the fix for this is to change line 290 of ciolib.c to #if 0

Actually, it's line 289 in the current release.

Digitalman says this is a work around. We really need Deuce to look at it and fix it properly. I'll submit a git issue later with some details.

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This is way old but the fix for this is to change line 290 of ciolib.c to #if 0

Yeah, that did it on my SuSe box. I don't want to comment out every update though.

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Actually, it's line 289 in the current release.

Digitalman says this is a work around. We really need Deuce to look at
it and fix it properly. I'll submit a git issue later with some details.

Yeah, I have it compiling fine now.

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Re: Re: Compiling Synchronet Linux
By: Mark Da Silva to Nelgin on Wed Oct 19 2022 08:49 pm

This is way old but the fix for this is to change line 290 of ciolib.c to #if 0

Yeah, that did it on my SuSe box. I don't want to comment out every update though.

That's the nice thing about revision control systems (e.g. git), you don't have to - it'll automatically merge your local changes with the upstream changes (so long as they don't conflict).
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That's the nice thing about revision control systems (e.g. git), you
don't have to - it'll automatically merge your local changes with the upstream changes (so long as they don't conflict).

That is nice.

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