Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of doc-devel/slang-16Mcolors-32bits

Timestamp:

01/31/17 17:34:09 (8 years ago)

Author:

mooffie

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doc-devel/slang-16Mcolors-32bits

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+= How to use 16M colors on 32-bits systems =
+
+MC 4.8.19 onward supports 16 millions colors.
+
+Only, however, if you're using S-Lang 2.3.1 and up on a **64-bits** system.
+
+That's exactly the problem: if you're on a **32-bits** system, you're toast. (This is supposed to be fixed in some futuristic "version 3" of S-Lang.)
+
+This page shows how to compile S-Lang with 16M colors **on a 32-bits system**, and how to compile MC against it.
+
+== Compiling & installing S-Lang: ==
+
+{{{
+rm -rf ~/slang-dev
+mkdir ~/slang-dev
+cd ~/slang-dev
+
+wget http://www.jedsoft.org/releases/slang/old/slang-2.3.0.tar.gz
+tar zxvf slang-2.3.0.tar.gz
+cd slang-2.3.0
+
+wget http://midnight-commander.org/raw-attachment/ticket/3145/slang-truecolor-demo.patch
+patch -p1 < slang-truecolor-demo.patch
+
+# Let MC know we support 16M colors:
+perl -i -pe 's/#define SLANG_VERSION 20300/#define SLANG_VERSION 30000/' src/slang.h
+# Remove duplicate declarations (gives compiler warnings):
+perl -i -pe '$skip || s/SL_EXTERN int SLrline_get_update_client_data \(SLrline_Type \*, VOID_STAR \*\);// && ($skip=1)' src/slang.h
+
+./configure --prefix=$HOME/local-slang
+
+make
+make install
+
+rm -rf ~/slang-dev
+}}}
+
+== Compiling MC: ==
+
+{{{
+cd /PATH/TO/YOUR/MC-BUILD-DIR
+
+../configure \
+  --prefix=$HOME/local-mc16Mcolors \
+  --with-screen=slang \
+  --with-slang-includes=$HOME/local-slang/include \
+  --with-slang-libs=$HOME/local-slang/lib \
+  CFLAGS="-g -O0"
+
+make
+make install
+
+# download a sample 16M skin:
+cd $HOME/local-mc16Mcolors/share/mc/skins
+wget http://midnight-commander.org/raw-attachment/ticket/3724/seasons-spring16M.ini
+
+# run mc:
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/local-slang/lib
+export TERM=xterm-256color  # if it's not already so.
+/PATH/TO/YOUR/MC-BUILD-DIR/src/mc   # or run it from $HOME/local-mc16Mcolors/bin/mc
+# ...then go to Options >> Appearance and choose the 16M skin.
+}}}