IRIX and Software

Man, I'm starting to think I'm a jinx. I'm looking at about 25% success at anything I do sgi.

I installed the Neko version of BZflag and it's dependencies. If I double click the icon it does nothing. So I tried the command line and got:

bzflag: rld: fatal error: cannot successfully map soname 'libcurl.so.4 under any of the filenames /usr/nekoware/lib/lubcurl.so.4...........

I did search here and google but don't see anything sgi specific.

Any suggestions?

cURL isn't SGI specific, but I'm betting there is a Nekoware package for it. Perhaps you don't have it installed, or you may have found another version mismatch...

smj wrote: cURL isn't SGI specific, but I'm betting there is a Nekoware package for it. Perhaps you don't have it installed, or you may have found another version mismatch...

I initially installed the freeware version off a cd. Something like 1.0.14. It ran buggy with menu issues so I removed that install and did a Neko install. the first time I tried to run the app I got the error so I removed whatever curl I had on and installed the neko version. I take another look but that was the only version there.

Just looked, the oldest libcurl .so I have is 5 and this installation is over ten years old now

You could try just making a link, normally that works. But most people don't bother with bzflag because it's not that much fun to play by yourself. You could try to hunt up Graveyardshift, that works and it's kinda fun for a while.

But bzflag is great fun to play if you have a half-dozen or more crowd of undergrads to play with !!! I will check it out tomorrow because I'm almost positive I have left bzflag in a working state on an Irix machine somewhere...

I was just looking for a game. No pref for bz at all, really. Any suggestions for a game semi-entertaining?

I search mame and went through a few threads but the links were all dead. Did that not work, was there a prob....?

viewtopic.php?t=178

Ah, that's a ten year old topic I'd be surprised if any of the links weren't dead!

When you're trying to get shared objects to work on Linux, you have to rerun ldconfig every time you add an object or change an object file's name, or the system can't find the new/renamed file. I suppose I should know if something similar is the case on IRIX, but I don't, anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

vishnu wrote: Ah, that's a ten year old topic I'd be surprised if any of the links weren't dead!

When you're trying to get shared objects to work on Linux, you have to rerun ldconfig every time you add an object or change an object file's name, or the system can't find the new/renamed file. I suppose I should know if something similar is the case on IRIX, but I don't, anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Fair enough...

...and mame is dead on IRIX? I did a bunch of searches and don't see anything new on mame. It's not a biggie either way. I was hoping for something to get my boys interested in the machine. We do play Thieves on it but it would be nice to load up some old-school ROMS and play as well.

How old are your boys? I've got Super Tux Kart completely compiled but I can't link it because for reasons that have completely defeated me I cannot get nekoware SDL to install on my system. So if someone with a working SDL (and a working compiler) wants to do the linking I'd be happy to supply the object files. Kids love Tux Kart right?

vishnu wrote: How old are your boys? I've got Super Tux Kart completely compiled but I can't link it because for reasons that have completely defeated me I cannot get nekoware SDL to install on my system. So if someone with a working SDL (and a working compiler) wants to do the linking I'd be happy to supply the object files. Kids love Tux Kart right?

The boys are 12, 9 & 5. I'm not familiar with Tux Kart but if it's anything like Mario Kart I'm sure they'll love it. I doubt, with my luck and record on the sgi, that I'll get it to work though. lol.

As far as Mame, not available for IRIX I guess?

I found a Tempest ROM that I'd love to play but would have to run it on either on the Mac Pro or Wintel box which are in the family room and not here in "The Cave".

Vladio wrote: The boys are 12, 9 & 5.

Can try this on the 5, maybe the 9er .... no sound (on purpose

It starts a little slow, give it a sec to get running.

hamei wrote: Attachment:
xjewel.zip [53.26 KiB]
Downloaded 1 time

Nice! No XTeddy?

Vladio wrote: As far as Mame, not available for IRIX I guess?

Uh, well from the mame makefile:
Looks sufficiently cross-platform that we should be able to get an IRIX version to work. I'm nowhere near an IRIX box at the moment (well, actually I am but it hasn't been able to boot in years) but I'll have a look at it this weekend. Maybe take another stab at getting nekoware's SDL to install as well...

vishnu wrote: Nice! No XTeddy?

That's scary, vish

neko_xteddy ist still in /beta, just in case you should need it.

hamei wrote: That's scary vish!

Agreed. For someone who's crawling with issues the guy's obviously pretty high functioning though...

canavan wrote: neko_xteddy ist still in /beta, just in case you should need it.

Everybody needs xteddy!

Vladio wrote: The boys are 12, 9 & 5.

I knew I had this somewhere ... most of the old SGI ftp sites seem to be dead

Boys, 5, 9, 12, sounds perfect ... should play good on an Octane.

hamei wrote:

Vladio wrote: The boys are 12, 9 & 5.

I knew I had this somewhere ... most of the old SGI ftp sites seem to be dead

Boys, 5, 9, 12, sounds perfect ... should play good on an Octane.

graveyardshift.tar.gz

Thanks, Hamei! We'll give it a try.

Here I go again dredging up old threads
It must have worked at some point and used that library.
I'm doing find / -name libcurl.so.4 and trying to add it to my library path and...
Foxtrot Alpha
I am going to fix this!