Subj : Re: atexit compilation errors?
To   : Digital Man
From : Ryan Fantus
Date : Mon Sep 04 2023 16:39:24

 DM> The 'ex_chat' is just an example ODoors program. You could've just
 DM> removed references to ex_chat from odoors/GNUmakefile, but it would've
 DM> then failed to build the other examples too.

Yeah, and I'm finding some other games that rely on ODoors have the same problem (clans, for example).

 DM> I added a fix (using the '-shared' option) for that issue, but I also
 DM> observed that the build was failing to find the xpdev library. I added a
 DM> hack for that (assume the build target is an x64 system). And even with
 DM> that hack, I had to add "LD=gcc" to the make command-line, but it did
 DM> work for me:

Thanks! I'll give this a whirl.

BTW, how necessary is calling 'atexit' in OpenDoors? I commented out the line and compiled without `-shared` and it compiled fine. Wondering if it's truly needed, especially for linux x64?

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