Postal - Port to the Amiga - is there a decent C++ compiler ?

[lantus360]

One of my favorite games is Postal by Running With Scissors. Its recently opened sourced and an ideal candidate for an Amiga port!

https://bitbucket.org/gopostal/postal-1-open-source

I can easily port Postal to the Amiga. I have even refactored all the SDL2 calls to SDL 1.2. I tested this with a quick original Xbox port that runs well using controllers and SDL1.2 - for a sneak peek (at 8:36 or so) - [ Show youtube player ]

The problem with the Amiga port is this code is all C++ and makes substantial use of STL (Standard Template Library) which isnt supported by any C++ compiler ive tried.

AmiDevCPP gives errors on <map>

Krystian Bacławski gcc gives me a constructor error

the closest ive gotten is beebos gcc/g++ 6.3.1b and that returns the following error

m68k-amigaos-g++ -c -o bin/AnimThing.o AnimThing.cpp -std=c++11 -m68020 -ffast-math -DAMIGA -DSYS_ENDIAN_BIG -fsigned-char -DPLATFORM_UNIX -w -DLOCALE=US -DTARG                             ET=POSTAL_2015 -I. -I./SDL2/include -I./RSPiX -I./RSPiX/Inc -I./RSPiX/Src -I./RS                             PiX/Src/BLUE -I./RSPiX/Src/BLUE/unix -I./RSPiX/Src/CYAN -I./RSPiX/Src/CYAN/Unix                              -I./RSPiX/Src/ORANGE -I./RSPiX/Src/ORANGE/CDT -I./RSPiX/Src/ORANGE/GameLib -I./R                             SPiX/Src/ORANGE/File -I./RSPiX/Src/ORANGE/Multigrid -I./RSPiX/Src/GREEN/Image -I                             ./WishPiX -I./WishPiX/Spry -DALLOW_TWINSTICK  -DNDEBUG -D_NDEBUG -O2
In file included from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             ext/string_conversions.h:43:0,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             bits/basic_string.h:5417,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             string:52,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             stdexcept:39,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             array:39,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             tuple:39,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             bits/stl_map.h:63,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             map:61,
                 from WishPiX/ResourceManager/resmgr.h:215,
                 from game.h:124,
                 from thing.h:270,
                 from hood.h:109,
                 from scene.h:180,
                 from realm.h:324,
                 from AnimThing.h:54,
                 from AnimThing.cpp:73:
/opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/cstdio:176:11: error:                              ‘::vfscanf’ has not been declared
   using ::vfscanf;
           ^~~~~~~
/opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/cstdio:186:22: error:                              ‘__gnu_cxx::vfscanf’ has not been declared
   using ::__gnu_cxx::vfscanf;
                      ^~~~~~~

am i wasting my time here? will we ever see a decent C++ Amiga compiler? I dont much care for rewriting all the C++ code as C

[emufan]

I've got the same error with some project using gcc6.
in this case I switch to AmiDevCPP`s gcc3.4.0 - which sometimes helps, but may result in other errors.

you may try to use one of the gcc options in your makefile:
-noixemul or -mcrt=clib2 or -mcrt=nix13
maybe some other c++ standard may help: -std=c++03 instead of -std=c++11
perhaps one will work.

[lantus360]

i get errors with STL:map with AmiDevCpp. This is normally my compiler of choice.

None of those flags help either, im hoping someone can tell me of a C++ m68k compiler that has complete STL support

[emufan]

Originally Posted by lantus360

i get errors with STL:map with AmiDevCpp. This is normally my compiler of choice.

None of those flags help either, im hoping someone can tell me of a C++ m68k compiler that has complete STL support

so report it to bebbo, maybe he can fix this issue. dunno else.

[grelbfarlk]

I thought the same thing, and had less luck with g++ 2.95.3.

[arti]

Try g++ version 4.3.2 or 4.5.0

[lantus360]

Originally Posted by arti

Try g++ version 4.3.2 or 4.5.0

can you tell me where i can find these for m68k ?

[arti]

On amiga sourceforge.

[cla]

Originally Posted by lantus360

is there a decent C++ compiler

Not in terms of C++17/14/11.

[bebbo]

Originally Posted by lantus360

One of my favorite games is Postal by Running With Scissors. Its recently opened sourced and an ideal candidate for an Amiga port!

https://bitbucket.org/gopostal/postal-1-open-source

I can easily port Postal to the Amiga. I have even refactored all the SDL2 calls to SDL 1.2. I tested this with a quick original Xbox port that runs well using controllers and SDL1.2 - for a sneak peek (at 8:36 or so) - [ Show youtube player ]

The problem with the Amiga port is this code is all C++ and makes substantial use of STL (Standard Template Library) which isnt supported by any C++ compiler ive tried.

AmiDevCPP gives errors on <map>

Krystian Bacławski gcc gives me a constructor error

the closest ive gotten is beebos gcc/g++ 6.3.1b and that returns the following error

m68k-amigaos-g++ -c -o bin/AnimThing.o AnimThing.cpp -std=c++11 -m68020 -ffast-math -DAMIGA -DSYS_ENDIAN_BIG -fsigned-char -DPLATFORM_UNIX -w -DLOCALE=US -DTARG                             ET=POSTAL_2015 -I. -I./SDL2/include -I./RSPiX -I./RSPiX/Inc -I./RSPiX/Src -I./RS                             PiX/Src/BLUE -I./RSPiX/Src/BLUE/unix -I./RSPiX/Src/CYAN -I./RSPiX/Src/CYAN/Unix                              -I./RSPiX/Src/ORANGE -I./RSPiX/Src/ORANGE/CDT -I./RSPiX/Src/ORANGE/GameLib -I./R                             SPiX/Src/ORANGE/File -I./RSPiX/Src/ORANGE/Multigrid -I./RSPiX/Src/GREEN/Image -I                             ./WishPiX -I./WishPiX/Spry -DALLOW_TWINSTICK  -DNDEBUG -D_NDEBUG -O2
In file included from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             ext/string_conversions.h:43:0,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             bits/basic_string.h:5417,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             string:52,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             stdexcept:39,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             array:39,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             tuple:39,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             bits/stl_map.h:63,
                 from /opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/                             map:61,
                 from WishPiX/ResourceManager/resmgr.h:215,
                 from game.h:124,
                 from thing.h:270,
                 from hood.h:109,
                 from scene.h:180,
                 from realm.h:324,
                 from AnimThing.h:54,
                 from AnimThing.cpp:73:
/opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/cstdio:176:11: error:                              ‘::vfscanf’ has not been declared
   using ::vfscanf;
           ^~~~~~~
/opt/m68k-amigaos/lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/6.3.1b/include/c++/cstdio:186:22: error:                              ‘__gnu_cxx::vfscanf’ has not been declared
   using ::__gnu_cxx::vfscanf;
                      ^~~~~~~

am i wasting my time here? will we ever see a decent C++ Amiga compiler? I dont much care for rewriting all the C++ code as C

add -noixemul and try the recent version from https://github.com/bebbo/amiga-gcc

[lantus360]

hi beebo, i will give it a try


thanks!

[lantus360]

this compiler works much nicer, thanks Beebo !

[Juz400]

Hi, regular watcher of your Utube channel
I am surprised there wasnt more interest in this 2 years ago, I have not played this one but Im a huge fan of Postal 2 all extras and the new Postal 4: No Regerts
We wont go into Postal 3 (Mistakes were made)

So everyone else knows what makes these games so much fun
[ Show youtube player ]

Was there too much C++ to convert over to Amiga or other projects took over as you are a pretty busy guy!
All the best,
J.