All questions regarding the OS/2 Port of PennMUSH should be directed to penn-os2@pennmush.org. I'll answer questions as quickly as I can. It does help to have a working knowledge of *nix, OS/2 and MUSH to set up and configure Penn under OS/2.
To compile PennMUSH under OS/2, you will need OS/2 Warp v3 or newer, a file system that mirrors a *nix file system and that supports long file names (I use Toronto Virtual File System for this purpose), The GNU file and text tools, SED, AWK, GREP, EMX GCC, and a *nix style shell (I use MSSH). All of these items are available from http://hobbes.nmsu.edu.
First, set your GCCOPT environmental variable:
SET GCCOPT=-Zexe -Zcrtdll -Zmt -Zbsd-signals -lsigbsd -lwrap -pipe -lbsd
Then, run configure. Depending on your setup, configure may or may not produce a good config.h file -- sometimes I get one that is right, sometimes I don't. I've therefore sent a copy along with these instructions this time.
You'll need to fire up EPM. Use EPM to edit src\Makefile. First, find a line that looks like this:
LIBS=$(CLIBS) $(ILIBS) $(RLIBS)
Replace it with:
LIBS=$(ILIBS) $(RLIBS) $(CLIBS)
This keeps EMX's linker happy if you are using identd or rwho.
Find the block that builds buildinf.h:
buildinf:
-rm ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "/* This file generated automatically from Makefile */" > ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define BUILDDATE \"`date`\"" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define COMPILER \"$(CC)\"" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define CCFLAGS \"$(CCFLAGS)\"" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define MALLOC_O \"$(MALLOC_O)\"" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define MALLOC_D \"$(MALLOC_D)\"" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define RDEFS \"$(RDEFS)\"" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define IDEFS \"$(IDEFS)\"" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
Replace it with this:
buildinf:
-rm ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "/* This file generated automatically from Makefile */" > ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define BUILDDATE \042`date`\042" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define COMPILER \042$(CC)\042" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define CCFLAGS \042$(CCFLAGS)\042" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define MALLOC_O \042$(MALLOC_O)\042" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define MALLOC_D \042$(MALLOC_D)\042" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define RDEFS \042$(RDEFS)\042" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
@echo "#define IDEFS \042$(IDEFS)\042" >> ../hdrs/buildinf.h
Now use GNU Make 2.75 (and I have tried pamake, pdmake, dmake, nmake and wmake, none of which will work, so you really should use GNU Make to do this) to make the file. First do a make update, then a make, etc. You'll end up with several .exe files.
Once you have compiled, follow the *nix directions on configuration, etc. All options (including compressing the database) seem to work -- if you find one that doesn't, please e-mail me so I can investigate it.
To run Penn, use mssh, or an equivalent shell, to run the *nix script files. I recommend putting this in a startup.cmd file, or placing an icon to it in a startup folder on your desktop. Use gzip and tar to extract the archive, and make sure to have EMX .9c or newer installed! It should behave exactly like the *nix version. Remember that the 'detach' command can be used to run a process in the background:
detach sh mymushname.restart
Since MUSH doesn't need UI, and doesn't really send much to the screen, and you'll have to look at the log files anyway, I usually just go ahead and use detach. If you aren't familiar with detach, then type help detach at an OS/2 command prompt.
1. Penn's output is not currently compatible with telnet's default options. CR/LF mode needs to be set to line-feed only. TinyFugue has no problems with it. This may be a limitation in the baseline distribution, I have not determined this yet.
2. Sometimes there were extra checkpoints in 1.6.10, that were not removed until the next time Penn used the same checkpoint number. These usually happened when you didn't @shutdown before rebooting the PC. I haven't seen this in 1.7.x, but I'm letting you know in advance you may have several checkpoint db's.
3. The scripts really need to be rewritten in Rexx, ORexx or Java, to remove the need to have mssh and the *nix utilities installed.