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johanberntsson / PunyInform

A fast and compact library for writing text adventure games for the Z-machine running on 8-bit computers as well as other platforms.
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Punyform V3 not compiling a project on ubuntu 20.04 with Inform6.34 #86

Closed shifters67 closed 3 years ago

shifters67 commented 3 years ago

Just trying to build the sample library_of_horror.inf with

./inform6 -v3 +lib library_of_horror.inf

and it fails with

Compiling to z3 format Inform 6.34 for Unix (21st May 2020) "lib/messages.h", line 645: Error: Expected switch value but found #

Ifndef

Compiled with 1 error (no output)

Same happens when trying to compile a v5 version also.

I downloaded the source for Inform6.35 as there is only a binary for windows and used the 6.34 project layout as the 6.35 source does not have the code to build it in the tgz file for unix.

Retried compiling with 6.35 and it works fine.

shifters

johanberntsson commented 3 years ago

I'm sorry, we forgot to update the requirements in the documentation. PunyInform now requires at least Inform v6.35. It may take some time before Ubuntu updates its packages, but Inform is easy to recompile from source on Linux. The latest releases can be found at https://github.com/DavidKinder/Inform6

fredrikr commented 3 years ago

Another option to consider is David Griffith's Inform package for Unix: https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/inform6unix . If doesn't have PunyInform v3.0 yet, but you can just extract PunyInform v3.0 in the PunyInform folder after installation, overwriting the files.