bzadmin curses for Windows

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:57 am

Could someone with the proper libraries (pdcurses) and resources (a compiler that will comple BZadmin cureses) please compile a copy of bzadmin-curses for windows users? I believe Visual Studio will compile it (as long as you have pdcurses), but Dev C++ won't. BZadmin for windows (without curses) just plain sucks, and virtually unusable. The curses version, which is a beast to compile, has all the features of a good BZAdmin and it's actually usable, the only problem is it doesn't come with the installer.

The BZAdmin-curses source is in CVS.

Lan · Post by **Lan** » Sat May 07, 2005 3:15 am

Dev-C++ compiles it, and I just updated the files last night, so it should work well. You will need to download the PDCurses library and put its files in the correct places (which is covered in the Dev-C++ readme file), but the rest is a piece of cake as you just let it compile like all the others. Tell me if you need further help should you try it; I am here to help.

Post by **DTRemenak** » Sat May 07, 2005 4:51 am

Actually it's visual studio which is not set up to compile bzadmin-curses. When I build it I do so with MSYS.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:12 pm

It got to the linking part of the compile process, but it pooped out here:

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-L"G:/Programs/Dev-Cpp/pdcurses/lib" -lstdc++ -lwsock32 -lwinmm -lcurses -lcurl  -fmessage-length=0 

G:\Programs\Dev-Cpp\Bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -lcurl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make.exe: *** [../src/bzadmin/bzadmin-curses.exe] Error 1

Execution terminated

Lan · Post by **Lan** » Sat May 07, 2005 7:08 pm

Did you download the CURL library from this link: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/cplusplus/? Did you put all the files in the right places, including "libcurl.a" in the "/lib/" folder of Dev-C++? IIRC it is already compiled, but if libCURL still needs to be compiled from source, simply import the Visual Studio files that it should come with (unless you have a different way you'd rather do) in Dev-C++ and let that compile.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sat May 07, 2005 8:00 pm

I have no clue what I did, I thought I had CURL before, but I downloaded your version, set libcurl.a in the /lib/ folder, and now it says this:

g++.exe ../src/bzadmin/UIMap.o ../src/bzadmin/bzadmin.o ../src/bzadmin/BZAdminClient.o ../src/bzadmin/BZAdminUI.o ../src/bzadmin/OptionParser.o ../src/bzadmin/Ping.o ../src/bzadmin/Address.o ../src/bzadmin/multicast.o ../src/bzadmin/network.o ../src/bzadmin/Pack.o ../src/bzadmin/ServerLink.o ../src/bzadmin/StateDatabase.o ../src/bzadmin/TimeKeeper.o ../src/bzadmin/ErrorHandler.o ../src/bzadmin/bzfio.o ../src/bzadmin/BundleMgr.o ../src/bzadmin/Bundle.o ../src/bzadmin/PlayerState.o ../src/bzadmin/buildDate.o ../src/bzadmin/ShotUpdate.o ../src/bzadmin/Flag.o ../src/bzadmin/Team.o ../src/bzadmin/CursesUI.o ../src/bzadmin/CursesMenu.o ../src/bzadmin/AutoCompleter.o ../src/bzadmin/TextUtils.o ../src/bzadmin/DirectoryNames.o ../src/bzadmin/ServerItem.o ../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o ../src/bzadmin/ServerListCache.o ../src/bzadmin/StartupInfo.o ../src/bzadmin/FileManager.o -o "..\src\bzadmin\bzadmin-curses.exe" -L"G:/Programs/Dev-Cpp/lib" -lstdc++ -lwsock32 -lwinmm -lcurses -lcurl -fmessage-length=0

../src/bzadmin/BZAdminClient.o(.text+0x7871):BZAdminClient.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::perform()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x143):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::cURLManager()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x211):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::~cURLManager()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x283):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::cURLManager()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x351):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::~cURLManager()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x431):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::~cURLManager()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x45b):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::~cURLManager()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x53b):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::~cURLManager()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x565):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::~cURLManager()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x645):ServerList.cxx: more undefined references to `cURLManager::~cURLManager()' follow
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x1892):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::setURL(std::string)'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x18e3):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::addHandle()'
../src/bzadmin/ServerList.o(.text+0x1e25):ServerList.cxx: undefined reference to `cURLManager::collectData(char*, int)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make.exe: *** [../src/bzadmin/bzadmin-curses.exe] Error 1

Execution terminated

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sat May 07, 2005 8:02 pm

move to compile help

Lan · Post by **Lan** » Sun May 08, 2005 1:31 am

RPG: I updated both BZAdmin project files a few minutes ago, so CVS update as they fix those linker errors.

However, I misread "curses" as "curl," so you will need to check if you have "libcurses.a" in your "/lib/" folder of Dev-C++ as that will fix the Curses linking errors you will most likely have. If you already have it, you're good to go. If you don't, I attached mine that I compiled today from PDCurses sources to save you some trouble. Place in the in the "/lib/" folder. It isn't a problem that I misread because you would have had the "curl" errors anyway.

One more thing: when I compile things with CURL, it tells me linker errors about things starting with "imp_". Now, another person compiled the same thing for me and he had no problems like that, so I hope you don't have any, but if you do tell me as I will know exactly what you are talking about.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:05 am

Hmm, I don't seem to be picking up bzadmin-pdcurses.dev on my CVS update. I'll try again tommorow.

Lan · Post by **Lan** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:37 am

Anonymous CVS on sf.net can take up to 5 hours to update.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sun May 08, 2005 4:06 pm

On startup, Dev-C++ says this: File G:\Programs\repisitories\bzflag\src\net\AdnsHandler.cxx is not found

So I hit OK, and half-knowingly got the same errors as I did last time.

Lan, could you post the bzadmin-curses.exe that you were able to compile?

Lan · Post by **Lan** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:22 am

That's quite weird because cURLManager.cxx in /common/ fixes them. Try recompiling ServerList.cxx and any other file that gives those errors (make Dev-C++ recompile them by just typing a letter in the file and deleting it, just so dev-c++ thinks you changed it). Often times that works.

Either way, I have attached my BZAdmin curses executable. It is a bit large, even though I used GNU strip on it.

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Tue May 10, 2005 2:40 am

I gave up on compiling it, and am happily using your end result

. You should compile it for every BZFlag release, it really is much better than the bzadmin.exe (without curses). Makes Windows more bearable, ya know?

Lan · Post by **Lan** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:28 am

I know exactly what you mean

If you ever want to continue with compiling it, or ever have any further questions/complaints/suggestions/anything, feel free to tell me. Maintaining Dev-C++ files for BZFlag is my passion, not my stress.