ZAPM - some trouble

[Psiweapon]

Hello people. First post here.

Recently I've discovered ZAPM and I've more or less fallen in love with it

The problem is, I can't compile the sources, the compiler always get stuck with some classes declaration.

Any folks here got any clue about that? Has anyone compiled ZAPM successfully? Any general recommendations?

[Krice]

Error messages with the copy of the line where the error is could help.

[Psiweapon]

Aye Aye!

C:\zapmsource\Global.h|65|error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'shMenu'|
C:\zapmsource\Global.h|66|error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'shCreature'|
C:\zapmsource\Global.h|68|error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'shMonster'|

and on and on... a gazillion errors more. The lines around that are

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[...]

60 #define FULLTURN  1000
62 #define HALFTURN  500
63 #define QUICKTURN 250
64
65 struct shInterface;
66 class shMenu;
67 class shCreature;
68 struct shMonsterIlk;
69 class shMonster;
70 struct shObjectIlk;
71 struct shObject;

[...]


in global.h . Basically in every class line. Or is it the line before?

I'm using codeblocks, mingw32, and the version of the ZAPM source is 0.8.3 froom nethack.devnull.net

How do I compiled ZAPM ? 

I suck ballz big tiem-.-

[Fenrir]

I went to http://nethack.devnull.net, but I couldn't find the source. That doesn't mean much, as I may have just missed it, but, if you'll link to me the source, I'll have a go at compiling it.

The Win32 binary for version 0.8.2 is available at http://www.zapm.org if you ever get tired of messing with it. You probably know already if you've played it already, but I figured that there would be no harm in mentioning it.

[Psiweapon]

But of course 

http://nethack.devnull.net/software/zapm.tgz Labeled as "current"
http://nethack.devnull.net/software/zapm-083-src.tgz
http://nethack.devnull.net/software/zapm-082-src.tgz

let me know if it works well for youª

[Krice]

The source comes with Visual C++ project file. It's compiling in VC++, just one warning (MOUSE_MOVED seems to be re-defined). If it's complaining about class, are you sure it's compiling in C++ mode?

By the way, running zapm was an interesting experience. I tried to type in my name (it was using computer's name by default) by pressing enter couple of times (nothing happened) and the game complained about "too many tries" and stopped. What the hell?

[Psiweapon]

Well I´ll be getting some tool that´s more vc++ specific and see if that helps...

I like this game so much I´m aching to tweak¹ it.

About the name, it let´s me use the default name as well as typing one, that sounds weird.

And yes, I guess it was compiling in c++ mode since it asked me if it was a c or c++ project (and my answer was the later)



¹ You might as well read "ruin" XD.

[Krice]

Well I´ll be getting some tool that´s more vc++ specific and see if that helps...

Get VC++ Express, it's free. It's also the best IDE for Windows. Although the problem in zapm could possibly be VC++ only feature, which is bad programming. Writing standard portable C++ is of course possible in VC++ also. I'm developing code in VC++ and running final compile in GCC, because there is some .dll dependencies in VC++.

[Psiweapon]

Yes, I have installed it already! But I don´t have time right now to try to compile it again, Ill post later if I have any success.

[Psiweapon]

Well, I got to see the project file with VC++ and it does compile... but alas, it won't read the name input, what the hell?!

[Krice]

but alas, it won't read the name input, what the hell?!

Yes, it's strange. It appears to be an older VC project file, so maybe there are differences let's say in Windows XP (possibly the platform zapm was programmed) and Windows 7 related to that input routine. Who knows. Just looking at global.h tells that zapm source code is poor quality.

[Psiweapon]

 I'm running winbugs XP too and it gives me the same bullshit XD

It really looks that bad? Perhaps that's why I can kind of understand some of it XD

I just love the theme and gameplay.

Thanks for the help man, the version I play is 0.8.2, I'll try to check if that compiles fine and then check the differences in the name-typing, or just switch to screw around with 0.8.2...

[Krice]

Here's the epic code asking for player's name:

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   if (!name) {
        int tries = 5;

        name = getenv ("USER");
        if (!name)
            name = getenv ("USERNAME");

        do {
            if (!tries--) {
                I->p ("Too many tries!");
                I->pause ();
                I->p ("");
                goto done;
            }
            I->p ("Welcome to ZAPM!");
            I->getStr (namebuf, HERO_NAME_LENGTH+1,
                       "What is your name?", name);
            I->pageLog ();
        } while (!nameOK (namebuf));
        name = namebuf;
    }

It could be simple but this guy has made it complicated. Also, great names for instances and functions. Interface class instance is 'I' and text output 'p'.

[Psiweapon]

I had located it and somehow¹ managed to get it to compile (perhaps I erased a typo or something, go figure) but then the game crashed as soon as a (b)arrel exploded. Way to go.







¹ As in "I haven't the foggiest"

[Psiweapon]

I ditched 0.8.3 and started screwing around with 0.8.2 (Which is the version I've played, anyway)

I've been able to add some stuffs and even got it to compile