Problems running emulators on BeOS 5

bigbanana69 · June 12, 2021, 8:02am

Hi,

I had installed few emulators on BeOS 5 including:

mupen64,
snes9x,
gnuboy,
visualboyadvance,
boycottadvance,
bemastergear,
besmsplus,
gens,
darcnes,
dgen,

I had installed SDL 1.2.7 and x11-base 1.3.

All emulators don’t start except Snes9x, bemastergear and besmsplus (which start).

mupen64 returns message that libz needs to be installed (where do I download it?).

Help?

lelldorin · June 12, 2021, 8:03am

Take it from haiku or search on beshare.

humdinger · June 12, 2021, 8:19am

Please choose the Be Inc. category for threads about BeOS.

bigbanana69 · June 20, 2021, 5:56am

I installed zlib 1.1.4 and mupen64 still returns error message: missing library-libz 1.1.4.

the file is located at /usr/local/lib

(zlib.a)

Begasus · June 20, 2021, 6:02am

We are not linux I’m not sure where you got the zlib archive from but from the looks it seems from some linux archive?

EDIT for one the library should be in /boot/beos/system/lib (or /boot/system/lib) (don’t know which path is correct anymore for BeOS

bigbanana69 · June 20, 2021, 6:07am

I had downloaded source code from sourceforge.

I had checked zlib webpage and found that (I haven’t found anything exactly for beos).

Also the error message is missing library libz.so 1.1.4, while the compiled library file is libz.a.

I have just found this site for sources Index of /fossils

Begasus · June 20, 2021, 6:09am

It’s looking for the shared library, a precompiled version would be hard to find I guess

bigbanana69 · June 20, 2021, 6:12am

I had messaged the maker of zlib and he wrote me to download and compile from his sources.

Begasus · June 20, 2021, 6:17am

Our port for zlib uses cmake, does BeOS come with that (long time ago so don’t know anymore)
Here is our haikuports one:

github.com

haikuports/haikuports/blob/14c2cab5428145b93232cb69683a67bbe68a9f06/sys-libs/zlib/zlib-1.2.11.recipe#L54

    
      
          	cmd:cmake
          	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
          	cmd:grep
          	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
          	cmd:make
          	cmd:sed
          	"
          
          
PATCH()
          {
          	sed -i 's,${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin',$binDir, CMakeLists.txt
          	sed -i 's,${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include',$includeDir, CMakeLists.txt
          	sed -i 's,${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib',$libDir, CMakeLists.txt
          	sed -i 's,${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/man',$manDir, CMakeLists.txt
          	sed -i 's,${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/pkgconfig',$developLibDir/pkgconfig, \
          		CMakeLists.txt
          }
          
          
BUILD()
          {
          	rm -rf build

bigbanana69 · June 20, 2021, 6:34am

you are taliking about zlib 1.2.11 I’m looking for 1.1.4 for mupen64 0.4, not mupen64plus.

extrowerk · June 20, 2021, 7:28am

Build a shared lib then (possibly some patching will be required). You can also look for lib packs at BeShare/web.

lelldorin · June 20, 2021, 7:35am

Have you tried to link the newer version to the needed one?

bigbanana69 · June 20, 2021, 9:15am

No. I don’t know what to do on that .recipe file?

bigbanana69 · June 20, 2021, 9:37am

I had installed mplayer on BeOS 5. I’ve been reading something and it stopped at libz.so.

So I have libz.so, but mupen64 still returns the same error message.

Anyone knows of other dependencies that are needed for the emulators listed that don’t start (maybe SDL-mixer or similar or)?

dcatt · June 20, 2021, 2:35pm

Would be great to develop an OpenEmu like client for Haiku.

bigbanana69 · June 26, 2021, 12:54pm

I had e-mailed Mark Adler for zlib 1.1.4 on BeOS 5.

Blockquote
zlib 1.1.4 is almost 20 years old! I only support the most recent version.
All I can suggest is that you try ./configure -s, and then make.

I did that.

Also I’ve read that mupen64 uses gtk, so I installed gtk.

But mupen64 still doesn’t starts (libz.so 1.1.4 is missing).

Also I’ve been trying to copy libz.so (which was installed probably with mplayer - I couldn’t find the version number) from /BeOS5/home/config/libs/ to /boot/apps/mupen64/ - doesn’t starts.

I’ve found this on emutalk:

https://www.emutalk.net/threads/problem-in-beos.33064/

Blockquote
BeBits has version 1.1.4. Sorry to say I don’t use Be anymore since it’s demise so I can’t say if this will work or not, but here is the link
http://www.bebits.com/app/2822

But the link is not working.

On pulkomany’s website I’ve found zlib 1.1.3 but not 1.1.4

https://pulkomandy.tk/~beosarchive/index.pl?search=zlib

I’ve been searching for ‘zlib–1.1.4.pkg.zip’ and I couldn’t find it anywhere.

bigbanana69 · June 26, 2021, 2:12pm

And finally I’ve got the zlib 1.1.4.pkg for BeOS and I had installed it.

mupen64 still returns the same error message.

Diver · June 27, 2021, 1:45pm

You need to copy it to /boot/apps/mupen64/lib/

bigbanana69 · June 28, 2021, 5:35pm

@Diver

I just had tried that and that doesn’t works too. mupen64 doesn’t starts - same error.

I had copied libz.so and libz.a from /BeOS5/home/config/libs to `/boot/apps/mupen64/lib/.

Diver · June 28, 2021, 7:36pm

you can try to create symlink to libz.so in the same folder and name it libz.so.1.1.4 or whatever version is needed. With some luck it could work.

Also since you have zlib 1.1.4.pkg you can open it in SoftwareValet (the default) and in the wizard there will be a step where you can see which files are copied where. Maybe that could be of any help.