Subj : Re: ruling out
To   : Alisha Stutz
From : Bj”rn Wiberg
Date : Sun Jan 01 2023 03:50 pm

Hello Alisha!

Happy New Year!

On 01 Jan 2023, Alisha Stutz said the following...

 AS> As i write months ago, this is the only way for modern Debian/Ubuntu to
 AS> work with Cryptolib and Mystic BBS. Following my Steps and it works.

When I compiled/installed cryptlib 3.4.5 with gcc 10 on Debian 11, I used this (sorry for any unintended linebreaks):

wget https://cryptlib-release.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/cryptlib345.zip
unzip -a cryptlib345.zip

# for gcc version 10 (existing logic incorrectly detect/interprets
# this as gcc 1.0)
sed -i 's/if \[ "$GCC_VER" -ge 45 \]/if [ "$GCC_VER" -eq 10 ] || [ "$GCC_VER" -ge 45 ]/g' tools/ccopts.sh

make shared
ln -s libcl.so.* libcl.so
mkdir -p ~/cryptlib
/bin/cp -df libcl.so* ~/cryptlib/

....and then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for Mystic (MIS) to ~/cryptlib, e.g. /home/bbs/cryptlib.

Maybe the version detection ought to be removed altogether. I wonder how many that are using gcc < 4.5 nowadays when compiling cryptlib...

Best regards
Bj”rn

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