Subj : Re: EleBBS/Linux and dosemu2...
To   : Shurato
From : Shurato
Date : Wed Jul 24 2024 23:58:00


 Sh> Me> On 23 Jul 2024, Shurato said the following...

 Sh> Me> Sh> Has anyone been able to get the 2012 Build of Ele/Linux to run
 Sh> Me> dosemu2?
 Sh> Me> Sh> I get a screen full of errors on my terminal that points to Ele
 Sh> Me> source
 Sh> Me> Sh> code.  I could post a link to a screen capture if anyone thinks
 Sh> that
 Sh> Me> Sh> would help. I'm mostly wondering if anyone has had any luck with
 Sh> this
 Sh> Me> Sh> abomination...  I'm trying to switch from Windows to Linux and
 Sh> it's
 Sh> Me> not
 Sh> Me> Sh> going very smoothly so far.  I've got all of the built-in
 Sh> features
 Sh> Me> Sh> working like questionaires and txtfiles, but not the one
 Sh> executable
 Sh> Me> I've
 Sh> Me> Sh> tried so far.  I'm using fully qualified pathnames and dosemu2
 Sh> starts
 Sh> Me> Sh> up, but when the dos program is supposed to run I get the errors,
 Sh> Me> which
 Sh> Me> Sh> probably wouldn't help anyone who wasn't willing to look at the
 Sh> Me> EleBBS
 Sh> Me> Sh> source.

 Sh> Me> Sure post a link that's fine, I will offer one in exchange =)

 Sh> Me> https://nuskooler.github.io/enigma-bbs/modding/local-doors.html

 Sh> Me> The link I just gave, although aimed at enigma1/2 BBSes, you can pick
 Sh> out
 Sh> Me> useful info there, which is how I managed to get Gutterbowl running
 Sh> in
 Sh> Me> Mystic a few years ago. I don't know if DOSEMU would be better than
 Sh> Me> DOSEMU2 in this scenario, YMMV.

 Sh> I don't need a link, icy_term showed the error much better than any other
 Sh> term program:

 Sh> An unhandled exception occurred at $08159CF6 : ERangeError
 Sh> : Range check error $08159CF6 RAEXEC, line 786 of
 Sh> src/elebbs/execfunc.pas $080761A4 EXECUTEMENUFUNC, line 425 of
 Sh> src/elebbs/elemenu.pas $08079382 ENTER_MENU, line 1158 of
 Sh> src/elebbs/elemenu.pas $08072A0F START_THIS_PROGRAM,
 Sh> line 191 of src/elebbs/main.pas $080490E7 main, line 557 of
 Sh> src/elebbs/elebbs.pas

Ok, even trying to run linux executables gets this error.  I need to find a
way to compile the source...  I get tons of errors when using the supplied
script to compile with free pascal and never end up with any executables.

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