Linux PPC build?

[richmond62]

I really am a bit of a banana,

Buddhist_Banana_by_MutantMarksman.jpg

having belted off the last post I then worked out how to open things up in CodeLite and how to search through multiple documents.

codeLite_search.png

So, tomorrow evening, after work, I will try to install CodeLite on the Linux PPC, and
see what I can do.

[richmond62]

If anybody had told me a month ago that I would be absorbed into some
kind of weird road movie I would have laughed at them.

[FourthWorld]

Is that Wadi Rum?

[mwieder]

<sigh> I meant, of course

Code: Select all

git stash pop

to recover the stashed bits. Sorry for that.

It's been a while since I've used Code Blocks, and never on linux.
I'm not sure what it will buy you other than having an IDE.
I think you'll have to create a new project and then start including files.
But that's just a guess because it's been too long.

[richmond62]

It's Wadi Rum.

Well spotted that man!

[richmond62]

The reason I want an IDE (for now at least) is so I can search through all the code as a unifoed thing rather than messing around opening each file inside its directories with a text editor.

[FourthWorld]

Moderation note: Per mwieder's request earlier in this thread, I've moved this topic to the Engine Contributors section. While it began as a feature request, Richmond's laudable efforts have taken the bull by the horns and now we're on our way to a community-supported PPC build.

Great work, Richmond. Thanks!

PS: @Richmond: I know the Mojave fairly well, but haven't yet been to Wadi Rum. But it's formations are unlike anything else in the world, so it's not too hard to spot for serious desertphiles. I believe the formation in that photo isn't too far from the famous Seven Pillars of Wisdom, sharing a similar structure and color that distinguish the area, a remarkable place definitely on my to-do list:
http://catbirdinjordan.wordpress.com/ca ... /wadi-rum/

[richmond62]

"now we're on our way" may be a bit premature . . .

I'm sorry, fans, Linux PPC groupies, and so forth; but last night I had a hell of a day at school (meaning it was fantastic,
with kids being really very creative, but my having to work extra hard because of that), so went home, ate supper and fell
into bed without even so much as giving my MacMini a backward glance.

Tonight:

1. Install CodeLite.

2. Search my way all the way through everything inside the 'livecode' directory for all references
to 'endian' and . . .

3. Try and work out which to comment, which to uncomment, and so forth.

4. Comment and Uncomment.

5. Go for a build.

How many of those I will actually complete I honestly don't know.

[richmond62]

Well; I've just installed CodeLite, and then I did this, and got a result that made me slightly worried;
that word, 'fatal' doesn't look good.

fatal.png

[mwieder]

Well, why did you type that in? What were you trying to accomplish?

The commands you typed in attempted to:
1. save your changes into a holding bin (the "stash" command)
2. revert the files to the point before you made them
3. create a new branch named "ppc_build", switch to it

Since you already have a branch named "ppc_build", you can switch to it without the "-b" option to the git checkout command. The "-b" option creates a new branch before switching to it.

You can see what branch you're currently on by typing "git branch"... the one with the asterisk is the current one.

Or were you trying to do something else entirely and I've misinterpreted?

[richmond62]

On, you've interpreted correctly, and I was being bloody silly.

[richmond62]

Well, here's CodeLite, at last:

codeLite1.png

[richmond62]

For those of you who are wondering, here are the specs for my machine:

machineDetails.png

Very generously, the chap who lives on the bottom floor of where I stay gave me a SyncMaster 795DF: this is an old
cathode-ray VDU that supports more than the 1024 x 768 resolution the one in my earlier pictures supports.
As desk space is not a problem it is lovely.

[richmond62]

Here goes:

endianSearch.png

[richmond62]

This filter seems a good idea:

searchC++settings.png

Anybody looking at this and wondering why it resembles a Primary School class should remember that I am
a Primary School teacher, and might also like to know that as I am learning as I go along, I thought I would preserve
a blow-by-blow account so that I (and anybody else daft enough to try the same sort of thing) could use it later on
as a route-map.