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- Interesting things about POSER for UNIX
-
- Requirements
- ------------
-
- POSER for UNIX is being developed and (very lightly) tested on
- x86-Linux, running RedHat Linux 6.0, kernel 2.2.5, glibc-devel 2.1.1-6
- using XFree86 3.3.3.1-49 running a 16 bit display.
-
- We use pthreads, so you need GNU glibc2 (aka Linux libc6) C library and
- a 2.x kernel on a Linux system. Other operating systems need to support
- true threads.
-
- IMPORTANT!!!
-
- The source makes heavy use of C++ templates, and some exceptions. On
- Linux, you must have egcs-1.1.1 or better to compile it. egcs-1.1 or any
- gcc WILL NOT WORK. RedHat Linux 6.0 comes with egcs 1.1.2, so you
- should be OK there. If you are running RedHat Linux 5.2, you will need
- to download the latest from <http://egcs.cygnus.com> and build it. For
- other OS'es, either use egcs, or be sure your compiler supports these
- C++ features.
-
- (Note that egcs needs to be built with the HANDLE_SYSV_PRAGMA option
- turned on in order to have the support to pack structures correctly.
- The Linux version of egcs has this turned on, but other variants --
- such as the compiler that comes with FreeBSD -- may not.)
-
- STOP NOW AND RE-READ THE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS.
-
- We use the FLTK X toolkit. I'm not going to get into an X GUI Toolkit
- religious war, so don't ask why not some other toolkit. You are
- encouraged to add support for other toolkits, like Qt or GTK+ or even
- Xt. I have tried to keep all of the FLTK code in the fltk_*.cpp files.
- If you add support for another toolkit, please follow that pattern.
- Don't pollute the UNIX-generic code with toolkit specific code. FLTK is
- available from <http://www.fltk.org>, is a quick download, and is easy
- to build on a variety of OS'es. We've tested with the binary install
- RPMs for 1.0.3 and 1.0.4.
-
-
- Porting
- -------
-
- In theory, POSER should be quite portable to other OS'es and OS versions
- -- we just haven't done it yet. There are a few things to look out for:
-
- o OmniThreads (the C++ thread abstraction layer we use) needs several
- defines set properly for your host OS. See Makefile.am for these
- switches. Eventually, this stuff should be migrated into the GNU
- autoconf system
-
- o Various UNIXisms: for example, POSER uses the stat() system call,
- which can vary slightly from OS to OS. Again, this should eventually
- migrate to autoconf control. For now, just try building it.
-
- o Most other stuff should be fine -- in particular, I don't anticipate
- any byte ordering problems -- certainly not from the SrcShared part
- of the code, as that is absolutely stock code from the Mac and
- Windows ports.
-
- o If you want to port POSER to other flavors of UNIX, please please
- try hard to limit your tweaking to the SrcUnix and BuildUnix
- directories. You shouldn't have to change anything in SrcShared.
-
-
- Status
- ------
-
- What works:
-
- o Core emulation of all current Palm devices & ROMs (in theory --
- we've spot checked about 5 or so combinations )
- o Gremlins
- o Loading PRC's / PDB's, etc
- o Preferences
- o Loading / Saving RAM images
- o Skins (!)
-
- To be added:
-
- o Serial support
- o Debugging interface
- o Easy screenshots
- o Actual use of the autoconf system
- o ROM Transfer
- o Progress indicator window (when loading PRCs, etc.)
- o Gremlin control window
- o Auto startup sequence (restarting or reloading from where you last
- left off)
- o Support for Autoload, et al., directories
-
- To be fixed:
-
- o Screen drawing is too slow
- o Some crashes on save/load RAM
- o Profiling should work, but hasn't been tested
- o There are lots of embedded English strings which should be moved to
- some sort of resource file (like the ResStrings.cpp)
- o NetLib redirection has only been very lightly tested.
- o Power button doesn't work (backlight is OK, but on/off is broken)
- o Not all menu items are enabled/disabled correctly.
-
-
- How You Can Help
- ----------------
-
- We're most interested in getting help in these areas:
-
- o Testing, of course. If you can fix a bug and submit a patch, that's
- great. Otherwise, please characterize the bug as best you can and
- let us know.
-
- o Porting and GNU autoconf usage. Autoconf is not really used right
- now. If someone is already familiar with this system, support would
- be great. If you want to port POSER to another UNIX flavor, please
- try to use the autoconf system. See
- <http://www.fsf.org/manual/manual.html>
-
- o Serial support - perhaps back-ported from XCopilot
-
- o Better screen drawing code -- if you're an X-expert, please feel
- free to improve the code that puts the bits on the screen.
-
- o Skins - draw skins for other devices... See SrcUnix/skins/* for
- examples.
-
-
- External Credits
- ----------------
-
- The OmniThread C++ thread library is from the omniORB2 program. It is
- Copyright (C) 1994,1995,1996,1997 Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory,
- and is published under the GNU Library GPL (LGPL). See
- <http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/omniORB.html> for information on
- the OmniThreads library and its license.
-
- Also, see the "About" box. If others need to be credited, please let us
- know.
-