installing on Linux

[Dolphin]

How may I install zsnes on Linux?

Im new to Linux

[Noxious Ninja]

What Linux distrobution do you have? E.g., Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora.

[Dolphin]

I have Topologilinux, its based on Slackware

i typed in
./configure && gmake && gmake install

then the confiqure does its thing and after that

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You may now run make to compile zsnes
Make sure you use GNU make when compiling.
/usr/bin/nasm  -w-orphan-labels -D__LINUX__ -f elf -DELF -D__OPENGL__ -o cpu/addrni.o cpu/addrni.asm
gmake: *** [cpu/addrni.o] Segmentation fault
gmake: *** Deleting file `cpu/addrni.o'

[rage46]

don't get fancy, try these steps

./configure
make
make install

Don't try them all at once and try make instead of gmake.

[Lord Alpha]

First off, you shouldn't have to use gmake at all because this is a GNU linux system - not a big thing, just for general info.

Secondly make sure you have nasm v 0.98.38 because 0.98.37 doesn't play nicely with zsnes at all

[Dolphin]

I got the new version of nasm, its in rpm, I opened it and went to packages>install selected nasm clicked install, when I check by typing in 'nasm -v' it say's its still version 0.98.37

How may I install it properly?

Thanks in advance!

[rage46]

rpm -ivh <nasm filename here that you want to install>

[Dolphin]

Thanks very much, This is my first install in Linux, Im almost there

Just one more thing; I don't want to install zsnes in the default directory /user/..., How may I install zsnes in a diferent directory?

Thanx in advance!

[rage46]

well untar and gunzip it into the directory you want it in.

[Lord Alpha]

Okay, I know you got a new version of nasm installed, but if you're using a slackware-based distro, I sugggest that you use tgz files, not RPMs. You *can* use RPMs but in my experience it tends to break things on slackware sometimes.

Download the nsam package from here then (as root) cd to wherever you downloaded the file and issue the command

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upgradepkg nasm-0.98.38-i486-1.tgz

...with that done it's time to actually install zsnes

cd to some directory and untar the ZSNES source code (or better yet grab it from CVS) if you haven't already, just cd to the directory where the sources are and do

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make distclean
./configure --bindir={wherever you want}
make
make install

Be aware that the --bindir option will put zsnes' compiled binary in $PREFIX/bin, where $PREFIX is the directory you choose so in other words if you do

./configure --bindir=/home/someuser the the resulting binary will be placed in /home/someuser/bin

HTH

[rage46]

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make distclean
./configure --prefix={wherever you want}
make
make install

Gimme a minute to check this...

Eh? do you need to pass a prefix to the configure command, I guess my redhat/knoppix use made me forget about slack. But yes I find that using the src is better then using rpm's.

[Dolphin]

Thanks very much everyone.

I went and downloaded the nasm .tar.gz file and installed it successfully. Thanks for the tip

I got it installed and it works

[Lord Alpha]

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make distclean
./configure --prefix={wherever you want}
make
make install

Gimme a minute to check this...

Eh? do you need to pass a prefix to the configure command, I guess my redhat/knoppix use made me forget about slack. But yes I find that using the src is better then using rpm's.

No you don't but Dolphin said s/he didn't want zsnes to install to the default localtion (/usr/local/bin) so I gave him/her the flag to use to change that