QGlk
David Fletcher
on Qt, and I've decided I might as well make a public release:
http://www.bubblycloud.com/qglk
The source is there, and some Windows and Linux builds of a Glulxe and
a Nitfol.
Consider this a very early release - it seems roughly usable but is
barely tested. I've played four or five games to completion but
that's about it. So, I can't really recommend that anyone uses it as
their regular Glk. Strictly for novelty-seekers.
It probably isn't worth reporting minor bugs yet, but if it crashes or
does something obviously broken, let me know.
So far it doesn't support graphics or sound, but I do intend to add
those in future (along with packaging some more terps, writing proper
instructions for players, and lots of other exciting features).
--
David Fletcher.
Otto Grimwald
> For a while I've been sporadically writing a Glk implementation based
> on Qt, and I've decided I might as well make a public release:
It's really cool. I've compiled it without problem on Linux. I like the
fact you can have access to several fonts you couldn't use in a terminal
because it displays proportional fonts as monospaced. (you could also
get them with gargoyle, but it's less practical)
> The source is there, and some Windows and Linux builds of a Glulxe and
> a Nitfol.
I've tried to compile it on Haiku, a beOS reimplementation. Qt 4.5.1 has
been ported on it recently (http://qt-haiku.ru/).
Unfortunately it stops with errors, but I don't understand them (I'm not
a C++ programmer):
In file included from /boot/common/include/QtGui/QFileDialog:1,
from
/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core/stream/FilerefManager.cpp:7:
/boot/common/include/QtGui/qfiledialog.h:317: warning: `visibility'
attribute directive ignored
/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core/stream/FilerefManager.cpp:
In method `class GlkFileref * FilerefManager::createTemp(long unsigned
int, long unsigned int)':
/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core/stream/FilerefManager.cpp:32:
`::numeric_limits' undeclared (first use here)
/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core/stream/FilerefManager.cpp:32:
parse error before `>'
/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core/stream/FilerefManager.cpp:44:
parse error before `>'
/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core/stream/FilerefManager.cpp:23:
warning: unused parameter `glui32 usage'
/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core/stream/FilerefManager.cpp:23:
warning: unused parameter `glui32 rock'
/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core/stream/FilerefManager.cpp:49:
confused by earlier errors, bailing out
make[1]: *** [obj/FilerefManager.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core'
make: *** [sub-qglk-core-make_default] Error 2
The part "::numeric_limits' undeclared " seems to say it understands
::numeric_limits as a whole thing, instead of "numeric_limits".
My gcc is version 4.3.3 (GCC)
(Haiku should behave like any other unix, they could compile several Qt
programs including the webbrowser Arora for ex)
David Fletcher
Not sure why this is happening. It hasn't complained about the
include of <limits>, and numeric_limits ought to be in there. I
wonder if the include of <limits> needs to be before the Qt ones for
some reason. Or if it somehow picked up the C header <limits.h>
instead of the C++ <limits> - doesn't seem very likely though.
As a workaround to make it build, you could just replace the two
occurrences of std::numeric_limits<unsigned>::max() with a moderately
big number, say 10000. That's probably an improvement, actually.
--
David Fletcher.
Otto Grimwald
> As a workaround to make it build, you could just replace the two
> occurrences of std::numeric_limits<unsigned>::max() with a moderately
> big number, say 10000. That's probably an improvement, actually.
>
Well, thank you, it seems it could build this part this way. But when
trying to compile nitfol or glulxe, I get several undefined reference,
such as:
/boot/home/Desktop/qglk-src-0.1.0/qglk-core/../../../../common/include/QtCore/qbytearray.h:87:
undefined reference to `qstrcmp(QByteArray const &, char const *)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [nitfol] Error 1
I've just checked again the qt-haiku website, and today they made a new
announce where they released new Qt binary programs, and they advice to
get a revision of haiku OS higher than the one I have, so I'll get this
one first and try to recompile QGlk later (probably next year now... ;) )
Regards, and happy new year!