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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The simh makefile DOES NOT support users locally building optional dependent packages if the OS platform has a package management system which provides the required packages. This strategy is due to a good number of historical problem reports which were due to some subtle configuration detail not done right when a package was built locally. OS provided packages are configured, maintained AND tested by the folks who run the package management system (the OS vendor usually) and as such those are known to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Most dependent packages are completely optional for the simh build. If they are not available then the simulator features which they help provide won’t be available in the respective simulator.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Simh [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Koning<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 11, 2016 7:49 AM<br><b>To:</b> Gene Irwin <girwin1215@gmail.com><br><b>Cc:</b> simh <simH@trailing-edge.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] Compiling most recent release of simh<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I meant the terminal output that is shown when you do "make".<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I noticed that even after installing SDL_ttf (from sources) it STILL doesn't find it -- but the files are there. So it looks like a makefile bug.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-tab-span> </span>paul<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Oct 11, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Gene Irwin <<a href="mailto:girwin1215@gmail.com">girwin1215@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Oddly enough that is also required by mame.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Where is the build log stored?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 7:40 AM Paul Koning <<a href="mailto:paulkoning@comcast.net">paulkoning@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>> On Oct 11, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Paul Koning <<a href="mailto:paulkoning@comcast.net" target="_blank">paulkoning@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>>> On Oct 11, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Gene Irwin <<a href="mailto:girwin1215@gmail.com" target="_blank">girwin1215@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> The only place I could find detailed the error with Google was the makefile on the github site.<br>>><br>>> I am running mint 18 and the makefile says;<br>>> No SDL ttf support available. BESM-6 video panel disabled<br>>><br>>> Any ideas?<br>>><br>>> I have SDL installed and compiled mame recently which also requires SDL and that went fine.<br>><br>> Did you install the "development" flavor of SDL? You need that to get the header files.<br><br>Looking more closely... this isn't actually an issue with SDL itself. A whole pile of simulators use SDL. But BESM is different in that it looks for a specific SDL feature, namely TTF (font file) support.<br><br>I don't have that either. Googling turns up SDL_ttf as a "project" listed on the <a href="http://libsdl.org/" target="_blank">libsdl.org</a> website, with a separate install kit. <a href="https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/" target="_blank">https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/</a> has the info. It looks like you need to install that, either from a package, or from source.<br><br> paul<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>