[DONE] CXMame. ncurses frontend for mame

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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 <[email protected]>
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)

Answer 1

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)