Code no longer compiles + docs are incorrect

[sdomi]

Hi!

The README suggests to just do ./configure; make; This is unfortunately impossible since 32baa4d removed the configure script. Running autoreconf -i and then ./configure results in the following:

checking for sdl2 >= 2.0.1... yes
./configure: line 6067: AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG: not found
./configure: line 6069: syntax error: unexpected word (expecting ")")

... fixing that by commenting out 10 or so lines around line 6069 allows me to run make, which errors out in a completely unrelated way:

make[1]: --cxxflags: No such file or directory

It still tries to continue despite that, likely due to the bogus || condition with every gcc invocation which causes make to never see the proper result code. Anyhoo, removing the --cxxflags too gets it to compile most of the core, and then fail on wxwidgets headers (which I do have installed, and the normal PCem version seems to build just fine)

OS: Alpine Linux edge
Arch: x86_64

[vadosnaprimer]

Readme is grandfathered from upstream, instead we build it like this https://github.com/TASEmulators/pcem/wiki/Building and it's been working for me on ubuntu for years.

[sdomi]

welp, it does indeed compile on tags/17+st-1 (with minor patchups, but those are musl-specific and expected). However, the last commits on that version are from 2021 - is this still the current, intended version?

it would be neat if you could edit the README, as it's the 1st thing anyone reads after getting to a project. I didn't even know that you had a wiki up on github, there's no visible indicator of it in the main view of the repository.

regardless, thank you for the tip

[vadosnaprimer]

The main question is how did you even find this fork, and why not use upstream?

[sdomi]

I can't, because I want to get into doing TASes :D

https://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/PCem links to this repository

[vadosnaprimer]

Yep, those are the guides we officially maintain and rely on. And they contain all the official info about versioning.

It's fair that sometimes our build won't work, because ubuntu 22 is now too old, and I didn't know how to properly make future proof packages. So people will need to build it themselves, and readme is usually where they look. I'll think about it.